Short film
Bête de scène
1994 · 18 min
A playful, theatrical short that blurs backstage drama with Shakespearean romance, witty and slightly absurd.
- Directed by
- Bernard Nissile
- Genres
- Drama, Comedy
- Starring
- Emmanuel Salinger, Bulle Ogier, Patrice Chéreau
- Overview
- Bernard Nissille’s little gem imagines a love triangle between the director, the Queen, and the Bear during a staging of Shakespeare’s The Winter’s Tale. An actor who appeared with Bulle Ogier in Olivier Assayas’s Irma Vep, Nissille enlisted the brilliant opera and film director Patrice Chéreau to appear in the film opposite Ogier, Michel Piccoli, and Emmanuelle Salinger, the star of Arnaud Desplechin’s The Sentinel.
- How it feels
- Whimsical, satirical, romantic and light. Brisk and needs your attention.
- About
- Love, art, identity, obsession
- Content
- Mild sexual content and language. No violence or gore.
- Note
- Written by AI, so it can be wrong. Full breakdown
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- Directed by
- Bernard Nissile
- Genres
- Drama, Comedy
- Starring
- Emmanuel Salinger, Bulle Ogier, Patrice Chéreau
