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Two friends, Jeanne and Johanna, are members of a rinky-dink orchestra, ''Les Sirènes'', playing the Decazeville region in everything from ballrooms to beauty pageants. While Jeanne is introverted and romantic, Johanna is outgoing and sensual. A talent competition in Toulouse catapults them to success thanks to a sound engineer's ruse: Johanna mimes on stage to a play-back of Jeanne's voice. The crowd go wild, a star is born. Johanna has it all: great presence, great voice. Gigs follow, and their ill-shared success proves devastating for our two heroines, who learn that in a society where appearances are all, there is one thing that cannot be bought: their friendship.
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Actors (21)
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- Executive Producer : Gaumont
- Co-production : France 2 Cinéma
- Film exports/foreign sales : Gaumont
- French distribution : Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures International (ex-Buena Vista International France)
Full credits (20)
- Executive Producer : Alain Terzian
- Adaptation : Gérard Krawczyk
- Screenwriters : Gérard Krawczyk, Alain Layrac
- Dialogue Writer : Gérard Krawczyk
- Director of Photography : Laurent Dailland
- Music Composers : Maïdi Roth, Laurent Alvarez
- Assistant Director : Stéphane Gluck
- Editor : Luc Barnier
- Sound Recordist : Pierre Excoffier
- Costume designer : Laurence Heller
- Author of original work : Didier Daeninckx
- Executive Producer : Sidonie Dumas
- Sound Assistant : Laurent Zeilig
- Assistant Operators : Olivier Banon, Alexandre Bon, Catherine Pujol
- Production Manager : Bernard Grenet
- Press Attaché (film) : Dominique Segall
- Assistant editor : Julia Grégory
- Production Designer : Jean-Jacques Gernolle
- Casting : Antoinette Boulat
- Sound Mixer : William Flageollet
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- Type : Feature film
- Genres : Fiction
- Sub-genre : Drama
- Themes : Music
- Production language : French
- Original French-language productions : Unspecified
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"This music is written and sung by Jeanne, the character I play, and not by me myself: Maïdi Roth, author, composer, and actress. The making of this album proved much more difficult than I'd imagined. To write "to order", based on a screenplay, avoiding all pleonasm between song lyrics and the plot of the film was already a new excercise for me. But to write and compose from the point of view of a character, to feel the words and the music as Jeanne would have, has more to do with schizophrenia than with style. I returned to the wellspring of teenage emotion for my inspiration." (Maïdi Roth)
