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Director: Emmanuelle Bercot
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From Time Out London
More ‘Velvet Goldmine’ than ‘Almost Famous’, Bercot’s treatise on fandom posits the star as a kind of vampire: she can’t enter the home uninvited, but once there can draw the life from you. As megastar Lauren, Seigner (who also sings) is a plausibly charismatic mix of ego and neurosis, while de Besco is outstanding as teenager Lucie, who follows Lauren to Paris after she pays a surreal visit to her home as part off a TV show. The misjudged self-licensing behaviour of both adolescence and celebrity is the basis for the obsessive behaviour that follows.Author: BW
Time Out London Issue 1835: October 19-26 2005
Cast & crew
Director: Emmanuelle Bercot
Cast: Isild Le Besco, Emmanuelle Seigner, Noémie Lvovsky, Valéry Zeitoun full cast
Duration: 115 mins
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