The Ideal (2016)
Octave Parango, the former concept creator/editor of 99 francs has become a model scout in Moscow. This cynical hedonist leads a very pleasant life in the arms of young Russian models and in the private jets of his oligarch friends... until the day that he is contacted by The Ideal, the world's leading cosmetics firm, embroiled in a huge media scandal. Our antihero has seven days to find a new muse by traveling through the confines of post-Communist Russia, under the orders of Valentine Winfield, a hard and authoritarian visual director.
Director:
Frédéric Beigbeder
Writers:
Bruno Lavaine, Yann Le Gal, Frédéric Beigbeder, Nicolas Charlet, Thierry Gounaud.
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Gaspard Proust as Octave Parango |
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Audrey Fleurot as Valentine Winfeld |
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Anamaria Vartolomei as Lena |
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Jonathan Lambert as Carine Wang |
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Camille Rowe as Monica Pynchon |
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Alexandrina Turcan as Anastasia |
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Nikolett Barabas as Olgas |
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Olivier Broche as Bernard Moulard |
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Anthony Sonigo as Jérémie Billancourt |
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Tom Audenaert as Igor |
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Jérôme Niel as Igor |
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Charlène Perillat as Oulyana |
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Nancy Tate as Journaliste CNN |
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Mark Lakatos as Le photographe |
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Xavier Alcan as Coordinateur War Room |
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Klement André as Octave enfant |
| Production | Gilles Waterkeyn | Producer |
| Costume & Make-Up | Orsolya Petrilla | Makeup Artist |
| Production | Nadia Khamlichi | Producer |
| Production | Adrian Politowski | Producer |
| Sound | Renaud Guillaumin | Sound Editor |
| Art | Arnaud Denis | Art Direction |
| Art | Cécilia Blom | Set Decoration |
| Sound | Valérie Le Docte | Dialogue Editor |
| Costume & Make-Up | Szilvia Ipacs | Makeup Artist |
| Production | Alain Goldman | Producer |
| Production | Nicolas Ronchi | Casting |
| Costume & Make-Up | Julie Nagy | Makeup Artist |
| Sound | Pierre Mertens | Sound Mixer |
| Sound | Marc Doisne | Sound Re-Recording Mixer |
| Production | Serge de Poucques | Producer |
| Production | Sylvain Goldberg | Producer |
| Directing | Frédéric Beigbeder | Director |
| Camera | Gilles Porte | Director of Photography |
| Writing | Bruno Lavaine | Screenplay |
| Writing | Yann Le Gal | Screenplay |
| Writing | Frédéric Beigbeder | Screenplay |
| Writing | Nicolas Charlet | Screenplay |
| Art | Stanislas Reydellet | Production Design |
| Costume & Make-Up | Nadia Chmilevsky | Costume Design |
| Editing | Dorian Rigal-Ansous | Editor |
| Writing | Frédéric Beigbeder | Novel |
| Writing | Thierry Gounaud | Screenplay |