The unthinkable has finally happened, and a TV crew will be there to witness the event: Alexandre Goübrick, son of legendary filmmaker Roman Goübrick, has decided, twenty-five years after his father's mysterious disappearance, to complete the famous director's ultimate masterpiece. Alexandre sets out to find his father's old crew, and desperately tries to find the film's missing piece: the last shot.
Direction
Sivan's nested film-within-film structure mocks and mourns cinema simultaneously.
Writing
Wickedly specific satire of French New Wave pretension.
Director
Grégoire Sivan
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
The name 'Bourchnikov' parodies both Tarkovsky and the French critical obsession with Russian cinema martyrs.
Released during a wave of French animated adult features grappling with national cinematic identity post-Dogme 95.
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