Feu! Chatterton 'Écran Total' by Pierre Saba-Aris
David Knight - 14th Oct 2021
Pierre Saba-Aris presents a revolution led by French indie outfit Feu! Chatterton to bring down the Great President in charge - played by the unmistakeable Denis Lavant.
Yes, that's Denis Lavant from Holy Motors, Beau Travail - and of course, UNKLE's Rabbit In Your Headlights. Twenty-three years on from Jonathan Glazer's masterpiece, the incorrigible Lavant returns to music videos and steals the show as the vainglorious leader who controls a docile and dumbed-down population.
It's the 'special glasses' that citizens wear that causes them to accept their fate - but Feu! Chatterton and their fellow revolutionaries dispense with these metaphorical spectacles, and provoke the downfall of the terrible dictator.
It's stirring stuff, orchestrated with verve and vigour by Pierre Saba-Aris. But surely Lavant, the embodiment of the rebel and outsider, can't be all that bad...?
David Knight - 14th Oct 2021
Credits
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Production/Creative
- Director
- Pierre Saba-Aris
- Producer
- Laure Massé
- Production Company
- Pelican Paris
- Executive Producer
- Maeva Jaouen
- 1st AD
- Raphael Reims
Camera
- Director of Photography
- Andy Collet
- Focus Puller
- Léo Essertel
Casting
- Lead actor
- Denis Lavant
Editorial
- Editor
- Mark Maborough
Grading
- Colourist
- Guillaume Chanaud
- Grading company
- Les Films Du Périscope
Commission
David Knight - 14th Oct 2021