Your own double stages a coup. French cinema said 'hold my wine.'
A beautiful and arrogant actor learns a lesson when his double decides that everyone has had enough.
Direction
Vidal-Naquet packs a feature's worth of ideas into 26 minutes.
Acting
Loret plays both arrogant star AND his fed-up double.
Director
Camille Vidal-Naquet
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Aiden Shaw, who plays the mysterious Aiden, was primarily known as a gay adult film star—casting that adds extra meta-layers to a film about performance and identity.
This early Vidal-Naquet short prefigures his later fascination with bodies under pressure (Sauvage), proving he's been obsessed with human machinery from the start.
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