Face
(2009)
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Cast
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Kang-sheng Lee | ... |
Kang, the director
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Yi-Ching Lu | ... |
Kang's mother
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| Fanny Ardant | ... |
The producer /
Queen Herodias
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| Jean-Pierre Léaud | ... |
Antoine /
King Herode
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| Laetitia Casta | ... |
The Star /
Salomé
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Norman Atun | ... |
Man in the boat
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| Jeanne Moreau | ... |
Jeanne
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| Nathalie Baye | ... |
Nathalie
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| Mathieu Amalric | ... |
Man in bushes
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Shiang-chyi Chen |
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Chao-jung Chen | ... |
(as Chen Chao-rong)
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Hsiao-Kang, a Taiwanese film director, travels to the Louvre in Paris, France, to shoot a film that explores the Salomé myth.
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louvre | very little dialogue | song | female frontal nudity | long take |Parents Guide:
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Release Date:
2 October 2009 (Taiwan) See more »Also Known As:
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Budget:
€3,875,000 (estimated)Company Credits
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The film is obviously made as an art black comedy and though it has almost no plot it consists of highly surreal scenes roughly based on Salome by Oscar Wilde – the main stress is made on the stupendous camera work. Oscar Wilde's symbolism in Visage is lifted to the level of paranoia. The director shooting the drama may also be considered as John the Baptist – pay your special attention at his constant misfortune with water and episode with the man in bushes looks like an absurdist mockery of biblical rite of John baptising Christ. In the final scene however Salome dances not for King Herod but for the symbolically severed head of John the Baptist. "Ah! I have kissed thy mouth, Iokanaan, I have kissed thy mouth."