99 FRANCS West Coast Premiere Comedy France, 2007 In French with English subtitles 35mm/Scope 2.35:1/Color/Dolby Sound/100 min Awards: 2008 Lumiere Award for Best Young Actor for Jocelyn Quivrin Official selection: French Film Festival of Greenwich (2008), Fête du Cinéma français in Quebec (2008) Directed by: Jan Kounen Written by: Nicolas Charlet, Bruno Lavaine Based on a novel by: Frédéric Beigbeder Cinematography: David Ungaro Editor: Anny Danché Music: Jean-Jacques Hertz, François Roy Produced by: Alain Goldman Production Company: Légende Co-production: Arte France Cinéma, Pathé With: Jean Dujardin (Octave), Jocelyn Quivrin (Charlie), Patrick Mille (Jeff), Vahina Giocante (Sophie), Elisa Tovati (Tamara), Antoine Basler (Marc Maronnier), Frédéric Beigbeder (Octave having a bad trip), Dominique Bettenfeld (Jean-Christian Gagnant) www.99francs-lefilm.com Based on the eponymous best-selling novel by Frédéric Beigbeder, 99 Francs stars Jean Dujardin (OSS 117: Cairo Nest of Spies (COLCOA 2008), Counter Investigation (COLCOA 2007)), as Octave, a cynical and hedonistic character inspired by Beigbeder’s former career in advertising. Seemingly comfortable in his vapid world of money, sex and drugs, Octave grows more and more disgusted with himself and the advertising world. When food giant Madone puts pressure on him to produce a new ad campaign, he uses his creative skills to sabotage the campaign as well as his own career. JAN KOUNEN From his first short Vibroboy in 1993 to his latest opus 99 Francs, Jan Kounen has created an original niche within French cinema. He has written and directed an eclectic collection of features and documentaries, including his highly acclaimed controversial first feature Dobermann (1997), his psychedelic western Blueberry/Renegade (COLCOA 2005) and a series of documentaries on Shamanism and the Indian world. He has also directed many commercials and music videos in France and the U.K. PRESS “Jan Kounen, the Carlos Castaneda of hipster helmers, injects a massive dose of pleasingly hallucinatory visuals into this screen adaptation of Gallic media gadfly Frederic Beigbeder's zeitgeist-nailing novel. Pic features yet another zesty, near-irresistible perf by Jean Dujardin.…” (Variety) “A stunning technical tour de force, the film is a viciously pointed satire of consumer culture, one that delights in pulling down the curtain between perception and reality and yet never forgets that this is still a film and as such it needs to be entertaining.” (Twitch) “The cynicism of Fight Club, the pace of Trainspotting but also the hallucinated sequences of Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas…” (Elle)