A director hunting for the perfect monster painting while becoming one himself. Meta? Oh, absolutely.
A companion to the director's Le Dos Rouge/Portrait of the Artist. A famous filmmaker works on his next film, which will focus on monstrosity. He is obsessed by the idea of finding a painting that will be central to the film and will crystallize all the power and beauty of monsters.
Direction
Barraud blurs reality until you forget which Célia is which.
Acting
Bonello plays himself as magnificently insufferable.
Director
Antoine Barraud
Bertrand Bonello
Bertrand
Jeanne Balibar
Célia Bhy
Géraldine Pailhas
Célia Bhy
Barbet Schroeder
Le médecin
Joana Preiss
Barbara
Pascal Greggory
Pascal
Sigrid Bouaziz
Édith
Valérie Dréville
Alice
Nicolas Maury
Le jeune journaliste
Nathalie Boutefeu
Catherine
Nâzim Boudjenah
Prométhée
Isild Le Besco
Renée, dans «Madeleine d'entre les morts»
Alex Descas
Scottie, dans «Madeleine d'entre les morts»
Valérie Massadian
La femme dans le baignoire
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Barraud shot this simultaneously with Le Dos Rouge, creating a diptych where fiction and documentary collapse into each other.
The film belongs to a tiny French tradition of 'director portraits' where filmmakers play themselves—think Rivette's Haut bas fragile, but make it even more insular.
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