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Section: French Shoals
Directed by: Maïwenn Le Besco


Le bal des actrices
France, 2009

Dir.: Maïwenn Le Besco
Scr.: Maïwenn Le Besco
Phot.: Pierre Aïm
Ed.: Laure Gardette
Music: Gabriel Yared
Cast: Jeanne Balibar, Romane Bohringer, Julie Depardieu, Mélanie Doutey, Maïwenn Le Besco
Format: 35 mm
Color
105 mins
Language: French, English voice, English subtitle, Hungarian voice over
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The story proposes a fake „making of” scenario about the director trying to shoot a docu about her actress friends, like Charlotte Rampling (depicted as a hermetic bookworm), Julie Depardieu (a hysteric who farms chickens in her Parisian courtyard) or Jeanne Balibar (a pill-popping drama queen who attacks a director with a boom mic), as well as on the director’s troubled home life with rapper Joeystarr. Tech package, beyond the glossy musicvid sequences, is down and dirty in the Dogma 95 tradition.

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