Stan the Flasher. Dir. Serge Gainsbourg (1990)
Nathalie CROUAU
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1. Film data
- Serge Gainsbourg
- Claude Berri (Stan Goldberg), Aurore Clément (Aurore), Élodie Bouchez (Natacha), Michel Robin (the prison inmate), Daniel Duval (Natacha’s father), Richard Bohringer (David), Luce Chabanis (Rosalie), Mark Stokle (Jojo), Jacques Wolfsohn (a friend of David’s), Stéphane Beyeler (a schoolgirl), Alexandra Billiard (a schoolgirl), Delphine Gliozzo (a schoolgirl), Agnès Gliozzo (a schoolgirl), Diane Lafosse (a schoolgirl), Karine Lautard (a schoolgirl), Lea Merovici (a schoolgirl), Laurence Moriette (a schoolgirl), Stéphanie Moglia (a schoolgirl), Sylvie Pompougnac (a schoolgirl), Céline Scanzaroli (a schoolgirl)
- Serge Gainsbourg
- Olivier Guéneau
- Babeth Si Ramdane
- Serge Gainsbourg
- Raoul Albert
- Corinne Jorry
- François Ravard
- R. Films, Canal+
- 64 min.
- France
- 1990
- French
- Pathé Vidéo, 2003
- DVD
English Synopsis
Stan Goldberg (Claude Berri) is a teacher of English who gives private lessons to high school pupils at his apartment. Estranged from his wife Aurore (Aurore Clément), for whom he no longer feels any desire, he starts fantasizing about one of his pupils, Natacha (Élodie Bouchez). Every single lesson that Stan gives revolves around Hamlet’s famous soliloquy wherein he asks “to be or not to be.” In the end, abandoned by his wife and his pupils, Stan finds the answer to the question by shooting himself in the head.