Playing Dead
– Jean, a forty-year-old struggling, out-of-work actor has hit rock bottom. Although open to any kind ..
Jean, a forty-year-old struggling, out-of-work actor has hit rock bottom. Although open to any kind of work, he can't get a break. At the unemployment office, his counselor has a rather odd proposal: he can get a job helping the police reconstruct crime scenes, by standing in for the dead victim. Jean's obsession for detail impresses the detectives, allowing him to take a leading role in a sensitive investigation in Megève ski resort, during low season, after a series of murders
11 Dec 2013
French
Jean-Paul Salomé
Jean-Paul Salomé (scenario), Cécile Telerman (collaboration), Jérôme Tonnerre (collaboration), Laurent Vachaud (friendly collaboration)
François Damiens, Géraldine Nakache, Lucien Jean-Baptiste, Anne Le Ny
A has-been actor takes a job playing the victims in a homicide reenactment, where he sparks with the civil officer investigating the real-life crime.
3 nominations.