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Director: Emmanuelle Bercot
Script: Emmanuelle Bercot & Jérome Tonnerre
Producers: Caroline Benjo & Carole Scotta
Photography: Agnès Godard
Editing: Julien Leloup
Music: Laurent Marimbert
Cast: Emmanuelle Seigner, Isild Le Besco, Noémie Lvovsky, Valéry Zeitoun, Samuel Benchetrit, Edith Le Merdy
Production: Haut et Court
Distribution: Wild Bunch
Year: 2005
Country: France
Running Time: 115′

For 16-year-old Lucie, the one thing that gives life meaning is the enigmatic and inaccessible pop idol Lauren. She worships her, Pictures of Lauren cover the walls of her bedroom, fill the pages of her diary. Through her, Lucie escapes her stifling existence in the small dreary French town where she lives unhappily with her celebrity-obsessed mother. Then chance intervenes, allowing the adoring young fan to enter the inner sanctum of her idol’s entourage, An innocent, she is swiftly drawn into a perverse, painful, impossible relationship with the star of her dreams, whose happiness becomes her sole fixation. But to try and reunite Lauren with the man who has left her, and without whom she cannot continue, Lucie concocts a dangerous, self-destructive plan.

EMMANUELLE BERCOT

Born in 1967, Emmanuelle Bercot is a Parisian director, who has just completed her second feature film, after Clément (2001), the story of the impossibile and amoral love between a thirteen-year old boy and a thirty-year old woman. She also directed a number of shorts (Les Vacances, Scénario sur la drogue, Quelqu’un vous aime…, À poil) a medium-tength film (La Puce) and a feature film for television La Choix d’Élodie.