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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

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  • Narrative
  • Performance
  • Indie
  • Rock
  • Satire

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Credits

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

Label
Universal Music France

David Knight - 14th Oct 2021

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