Executive Producers : Caroline Benjo, Carole Scotta
Director : Emmanuelle Bercot
Assistant Director : Sébastien Matuchet
Screenwriters : Emmanuelle Bercot, Jérôme Tonnerre
Actors : Emmanuelle Seigner, Isild Le Besco, Noémie Lvovsky, Valery Zeitoun, Samuel Benchetrit, Édith Le Merdy, Jean-Paul Walle Wa Wana, Mar Sodupe, Nicolas Maury, Ludovic Bergery, Aurore Auteuil, Lise Lamétrie
Director of Photography : Agnès Godard
Sound Recordists : Pierre André, Gaël Nicolas
Production Manager : Pascal Bonnet
Press Attachés (film) : André-Paul Ricci, Tony Arnoux
Editor : Julien Leloup
Continuity supervisor : Isabelle Ribis
Production Designer : Éric Barboza
Music Composers : Laurent Marimbert, Marine Bercot
Casting : Antoinette Boulat
Costume Designers : Jean-Marc Mireté, gil Lesage
Sound Mixers : Stéphane Thiébaut, Jean-Pierre Laforce

Co-production : Arte France Cinéma, StudioCanal
Foreign production company : CMW Films
Associate production company : Haut et Court
French distribution : Haut et Court
Film export/Foreign Sales : Wild Bunch

Argentina : Distribution Company
Released 9/11/08

BOLIVIA : Gateno Films
Released N/A

BOSNIA : Pa-Dora D.O.O.
Released N/A

Brazil : Imagem Filmes
Released N/A

Chile : Bazuca Films
Released N/A

Croatia : Pa-Dora D.O.O.
Released 2/23/06

Czech Republic : DM Communication
Released N/A

ECUADOR : Gateno Films
Released N/A

Finland : Cinema Mondo Oy
Released 11/23/06

Hungary : DM Communication
Released N/A

Mexico : Cinemas Nueva Era
Released 6/8/07

PARAGUAY : Distribution Company
Released N/A

PERU : Gateno Films
Released N/A

Portugal : Lusomundo
Released N/A

Slovakia : DM Communication
Released N/A

Slovenia : Pa-Dora D.O.O.
Released N/A

Switzerland : Frenetic Films
Released N/A

Turkey : Bir Film
Released 7/21/06

URUGUAY : Distribution Company
Released N/A

USA : Strand Releasing
Released 11/22/06

Venezuela : Blanco y Traviesa
Released N/A

Yugoslavia : Union Film
Released 3/2/06

Romania : IF - Independenta Film
Released N/A

Estonia : Pyramid / 21 Entertainment
Released N/A

Poland : Monolith Films
Released N/A

Russia : Pyramid / 21 Entertainment
Released N/A

Ukraine : Pyramid / 21 Entertainment
Released N/A

Feature film, Fiction , Drama
Production language : French
Nationality : Majority French (Germany)
Production year : 2005
French release : 16/11/2005
Runtime : 1h 55mn
Current status : Released
Visa issue date : 20/10/2005
Approval : Yes
Production formats : 35mm
Screening format : 35mm
Color type : Color
Aspect ratio : 1.85
Sound format : Dolby SRD

Lucie, a teenager, devotedly worships a famous singer, Lauren Waks, a very private and inaccessible artist. Photos of Lauren cover Lucie’s bedroom walls. They help her to escape a dull existence in the provinces with her mother and younger brother. One day, an unexpected event allows the young fan to become part of her idol’s private life. She then innocently throws herself into a passionate relationship with the star of her dreams. But, in an attempt to make Lauren happy despite herself, Lucie concocts an outrageous plan.

Backstage by Emmanuelle Bercot (France, 2005, 115 min.). Emmanuelle Bercot’s feature directorial debut shows us the dark, disturbing side of celebrity worship, with a sharp sense for what goes through the mind of a teenager enthralled by fame. Lucie, brilliantly portrayed by rising French star Isild Le Besco, is an ordinary teenager, fixated on an inaccessible pop idol: the enigmatic, platinum blonde Lauren (Emmanuelle Seigner). One day, Lauren visits Lucie’s house as part of a surprise planned for a television show, and Lucie becomes obsessed with following Lauren to Paris. Bercot stirs this premise into a troubling look at stardom and the world that travels in its wake: publicists, managers, producers, guards and in Lucie’s case, fanatical groupies. Backstage is a knockout: intelligent, unnerving, and highly accomplished. Description adapted from Piers Handling, Toronto International Film Festival.

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> Tuebingen - Stuttgart International French-language Film Festival - 2005 :
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