Prague Short Film Festival Presents 2016 / People Are Strange / France 2014
What happens when you don’t make it in show business? Julien considers himself Jim Morrison’s legitimate double. He earns his living at the Parisian Père-Lachaise cemetery entertaining tourists in front of the rock star’s tomb. When he learns that his idol’s body is to be transferred to California, Julien decides to steal the Lizard King’s remains with the help of his friend Aldo.
What happens when you don’t make it in show business? Julien considers himself Jim Morrison’s legitimate double. He earns his living at Paris’s Père-Lachaise cemetery entertaining tourists in front of the rock star’s tomb. When he learns that his idol’s body is to be transferred to California, Julien decides to steal the Lizard King’s remains with the help of his friend Aldo.
Karel Spěšný
20 min / Color, Data Files
Director Julien Hallard
/ Screenplay Julien Hallard
/ Dir. of Photography Benoît Soler
/ Editor Jean-Christophe Bouzy
/ Art Director David Faivre
/ Producer Pierre-Louis Garnon
/ Production Les films velvet
/ Cast Franc Bruneau, Estéban, Mathilde Bisson, Martine Schambacher, François Chattot
/ Contact Les Films Velvet
Julien Hallard (b. 1974, Lisieux, France) began his directing career with a trilogy of three short films shot in New York in 2003–2004 that was selected for numerous festivals, including Locarno and Venice. Hair (2009), his sixth short film, competed at the Clermont-Ferrand International Short Film Festival in 2010. He also directed the shorts Rose (2012) and People Are Strange (2014), broadcast on Arte.
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