A bourgeois office drone whose raison d'être is the music of French rocker Johnny Hallyday awakens one day in an alternate universe where the famed musician never recorded a single song. When he’s not at the office dutifully plugging-away, Fabrice lives a deadly dull life.
Acting
Luchini's unhinged devotion to a man who doesn't know him.
Writing
The delicious cruelty of a world where your god is a nobody.
Director
Laurent Tuel
Fabrice Luchini
Fabrice / Self
Johnny Hallyday
Jean-Philippe Smet / Self
Guilaine Londez
Babette
Antoine Duléry
Chris Summer / Christian Saumon
Élodie Bollée
Laura / Marion
Olivier Gueritée
Laurent
Jackie Berroyer
Marion's physics teacher
Caroline Cellier
Caroline
Barbara Schulz
Gabrielle
Benoît Poelvoorde
Bernard Frédéric, double of Claude François
Jean-Claude Camus
Self, Chris Summer's producer
Christine Paolini
Edith
Antoine Stip
Denis Loman
Christian Pereira
Michel, colleague of Fabrice
Denis Braccini
Jean-Paul
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Johnny Hallyday was France's biggest rock star for decades; this film lets him play a failed nobody, which he reportedly found hilarious.
The film satirizes France's unique celebrity culture where singers are national monuments — imagine Springsteen, but treated like actual royalty.
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