Backstage
Synopsis
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.
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Director (1)
Actors (23)
Production and distribution (5)
- Executive Producer : Haut et Court
- Co-productions : STUDIOCANAL, Arte France Cinéma
- Foreign production company : CMW Films
- Film exports/foreign sales : Goodfellas
- French distribution : Haut et Court
Full credits (16)
- Executive producers : Caroline Benjo, Carole Scotta
- Screenwriters : Emmanuelle Bercot, Jérôme Tonnerre
- Director of photography : Agnès Godard
- Music Composers : Laurent Marimbert, Marine Bercot
- Assistant directors : Sébastien Matuchet, Sonia Tahallah, Guillaume Huin
- Editor : Julien Leloup
- Costume designers : Jean-Marc Miretè, Gil Lesage
- Sound assistants : Jérôme Chenevoy, Franck Duval
- Production Manager : Pascal Bonnet
- Press Attachés (film) : André-Paul Ricci, Tony Arnoux
- Sound Editor : Gaël Nicolas
- Continuity supervisor : Isabelle Ribis
- Production Designer : Éric Barboza
- Casting : Antoinette Boulat
- Sound mixers : Stéphane Thiébaut, Jean-Pierre Laforce, Pierre André
- Post-production supervisor : Christina Crassaris
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Technical details
- Type : Feature film
- Genres : Fiction
- Sub-genre : Drama
- Production language : French
- Coproducer countries : Germany, France
- Original French-language productions : Yes
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TIFF (Toronto International Film Festival)
Canada, 2005
Actor : Emmanuelle Seigner
Director : Emmanuelle Bercot
About
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.
