Country: France
Year: 2006
Duration: 75'
Taking advantage of the scoop about his death, a filmmaker trades his passport for the passport of a corpse that was found at a construction site. But the body doesn’t belong to an ordinary person… “My preceding film, Les Naufragés de la D17, owed much of its evolutionary and game-like structure to The Road to Yesterday (1925), the masterpiece by Cecile B. De Mille. It’s the plot of another film by the same director, The Whispering Chorus (1917), that directly inspired my film, Le Prestige de la Mort. My film develops a very up-to-date theme, since it was recently presented in Bellocchio’s Il regista di matrimoni. The story, which in De Mille’s film was dramatic, is treated like a farce in this one. Since I was hardly ever present in Les Naufragés de la D17, I am in almost every shot in Prestige, in which I portray… Luc Moullet.” (L. Moullet)
Biography
film director
Luc Moullet
Luc Moullet (Paris, 1937), critic, essayist, actor and producer, he works also as a director until 1960, and he has realized more than 25 films, including shorts, features, documentaries and autobiographical works. His films are carachterized by a hyper-objective look, which often creats pure comic effects. Among his most significant works: Anatomie d’un rapport (1975), Genèse d’une repas (1978), La Comédie du travail (1987), Le Sièges d’Alcazar (1989) and Les Naufragés de la D17 (2002).
FILMOGRAFIA
Brigitte et Brigitte (1966), Les Contrebandières (1967), Une Aventure de Billy le Kid (1971), Anatomie d’un rapport (1975), Genèse d’un repas (doc., 1978), La Comédie du travail (1987), Essai d’ouverture (cm, 1988), Les Sièges de l’Alcazar (mm, TV, 1989), Parpaillon (TV, 1992), Imphy, capitale de la France (cm, doc., 1995), Le Ventre de l’Amérique (cm, doc., 1995), L’Odyssee du 16/9 (cm, 1996), Le Fantôme de Longstaff (cm, 1996), Au champ d’honneur (cm, 1997), Nous sommes tous des cafards (cm, 1997), Le Système Zsigmondy (cm, 2000), Les Naufragés de la D17 (2001), Les Prestige de la mort (2006), Le Litre de lait (cm, 2006), Jean Luc vu par Luc (cm, 2006)