Alain Chabat dies, haunts an accountant's brain, and refuses to stop being fabulous. Chaos ensues.
80's pop icon Gilles Gabriel is about to make a comeback in the French music scene, until he accidentally hits Ranu, a slightly nutty accountant, when out driving one day. Both are horrified to realise that Gilles died in the crash, and that his spirit now lives in Ranu's head! The kooky accountant's life soon becomes chaos!
Acting
Auteuil's physical comedy carrying two performances in one body
Costume
Gilles' tragicomic commitment to 80s pop-star glamour
Writing
Chabat's narcissist ghost refusing character development
Director
Nicolas Charlet
Daniel Auteuil
Jean-Christian Ranu
Alain Chabat
Gilles Gabriel
Marina Foïs
Muriel Perrache
François Damiens
Cogip's physician
Frédéric Beigbeder
Frédéric Beigbeder
Édith Le Merdy
Brigitte
Denis Maréchal
L'infirmier audio-test Cogip
Fred Tousch
Le professeur de sexe
JoeyStarr
JoeyStarr
Mathilde Wambergue
L'infirmière Cogip
Patrick Poivre d'Arvor
Self - PPDA dans la télé
Philippe Chaine
Le badaud
Rodolphe Blanchet
Assistant hollandais
Frankie Pain
La fan qui pleure
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Gilles Gabriel is a thinly-veiled homage to real 80s French pop disasters like Dave or Patrick Hernandez — Chabat reportedly studied footage of forgotten variety show meltdowns.
The 'internal' scenes where Gilles appears in Ranu's head were shot twice — once with Chabat on set, once with Auteuil reacting to empty space, then composited.
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