Bret Easton Ellis made a 4-minute opera fever dream. Chaos? Absolutely.
"Figaro" is a comedic film inspired by the music of The Barber of Sevilla. An opera singer loses his voice during rehearsal and goes through a night of debauchery, before coming back and being able to sing.
Direction
Ellis doing opera? The audacity alone carries it.
Production
Four minutes of pure aesthetic commitment.
Director
Bret Easton Ellis
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Ellis directed this between novels and podcasts—his only film credit this decade.
The Rossini source material is about class and deception; Ellis makes it about artistic ego imploding.
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