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Country: France, Language: French, 112 mins

  • Director: Emmanuelle Bercot
  • Writer: Emmanuelle Bercot; Jérôme Tonnerre
  • Producer: Caroline Benjo; Christoph Hahnheiser

CGiii Comment

This is a just too difficult to digest...if you can accept this level of celebrity obsession and abject misery...then, you're onto a winner.

Alas, we couldn't.

Furthermore, the original songs are all grotesque...

It's all very intense...and, devoid of entertainment value whatsoever.


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The(ir) Blurb...

An adolescent groupie (Isild Le Besco) zeroes in on her Blondie-like idol (Emmanuelle Seigner) after the singer chances to cross her orbit on a publicity tour. Gradually their lives intertwine as, with near-operatic intensity, the film delves into the emotional dependency on both sides of celebrity culture.

Cast & Characters

Emmanuelle Seigner as Lauren Waks;
Isild Le Besco as Lucie;
Noemie Lvovsky as Juliette;
Valery Zeitoun as Seymour;
Samuel Benchetrit as Daniel;
Edith Le Merdy as Marie-Line, la mere de Lucie;
Jean-Paul Walle Wa Wana as Jean-Claude, le garde du corps;
Mar Sodupe as Nanou;
Lise Lametrie as La femme de chambre;
Claude Duneton as Le pere de Lauren;
Joelle Miquel as Une fan;
Aurore Auteuil as Pamela;
Yousef Baghdary as Stephane;
Alain Berlioux as L'amant de Lauren;
Patrick Blanchais as L'ingenieur son studio