VISAGES de Tsai Ming-Liang

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Un jeune cinéaste chinois réalise une comédie musicale autour du mythe de Salomé dans le Musée du Louvre. Mais le tournage tourne au désastre...

Le réalisateur génial des succès critiques tels que la saveur de la pastèque, Et là-bas quelle heure est-il? ou encore Goodbye Dragon Inn revient avec un projet qui a de quoi intriguer. Un film dans le film, tourné au Louvres dans des lieux jusque là invisibles, avec un casting français qui rassemble des acteurs de la nouvelle vague et d'autres très en vue aujourd'hui...

Article en anglais:
Shot throughout the Louvre for six weeks in areas in which have never been open to the public, Taiwanese director Tsai Ming-Liang spent two years exploring every nook and cranny with free reign to go anywhere before finally settling down and filming his latest project Visages (Face).

Visages is set in the Louvre’s royal apartments, around the Pyramid and in hidden sanctums, is a film within a film, about a Taiwanese director, who is making a madcap adaptation of the lurid story of Salome, the stepdaughter of Herod who demands the head of John the Baptist.

As most would have guest the director within the film is played by Ming-Liang's muse Kang-sheng Lee while supermodel Laetitia Casta films the role of Salome and French director François Truffaut's very own muse Jean-Pierre Léaud fills in for John the Baptist.

The remaining cast is a who's who of French cinema past and present not to mention a handful of Truffaut classics with such favorites as Jeanne Moreau, Fanny Ardant, Nathalie Baye, and Mathieu Amalric along for the ride.

The film, which Fortissimo Films plans to market at the currently running Berlinale International Film Festival, will make its official debut at Cannes in May.

Casting:

Kang-sheng Lee ... Hsiao-Kang
Mathieu Amalric ... L'homme du fourré
Jeanne Moreau
Fanny Ardant
Laetitia Casta ... Salomé
Nathalie Baye
Jean-Pierre Léaud ... Antoine

Présentation à priori au festival de Cannes cette année, il va y avoir des gros films en 2009!!