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 Directed by Emmanuelle Bercot “Impeccably well-acted.” |
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| “An enjoyably overwrought meditation on the consequences of celebrity and the vicissitudes of fandom…The 24-year-old French actress Isild Le Besco has one of the most exotic faces in movies…she might have modeled for the stone carvers of a lost Mesoamerican civilization… Seigner, who does her own singing, gives an excellent performance as the mercurial diva—projecting a naturalistic combination of goddessy self-absorption and spontaneous, distracted bewilderment.” – J. Hoberman, Village Voice “Ms. Seigner, and especially Ms. Le Besco, lighted by the luminescent cinematography of Agnes Godard, imbue their friendship with a charged, almost ecstatic aura that is hard to turn away from. Ms Seigner, with her larger-than-life model frame, often shot at a bit of a remove, finds a sweet spot as an elusive object of desire.” – Nicolas Rapold, New York Sun “BACKSTAGE is above all a showcase for Ms. Seigner, who is quite a good singer, and Ms. Le Besco, the fearless young French actress who specializes in playing naïve, headstrong girls derailed by passion.” – Stephen Holden, The New York Times |
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The luscious Emmanuelle Seigner (aka Mrs. Roman Polanski) chews the scenery as a French Madonna-like pop star. As the movie opens, a small-town teenager (compellingly played by Isild Le Besco) returns from school to find her idol, agleam in white satin, crooning to her in her own living room as the television cameras roll. Cut to Paris, where the glamour-struck fan and the power-crazed seductress swiftly develop a passionate love-hate relationship. It’s a world of high-priced luxury suites, hot and cold running sycophants, fabulous clothes, non-stop limos, and the pathos that comes with a celebrity culture that has as its core (assuming it has a core): vanity, beauty, money and sexual prowess. France • 2005 • 115 minutes • In French with English Subtitles • Strand Releasing |
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