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3 unusual facts about Laurent Boutonnat


Laurent Boutonnat

Starring Farmer, Jeff Dahlgren and Joss Ackland, the film was a major critical and commercial flop at the time, even if more recent reviews of the film are less hostile with the film after it achieved cult status with its DVD release.

Laurent Pierre Marie Boutonnat (born 14 June 1961 in Paris) is a French composer and film and music video director, best known as the songwriting partner of Mylène Farmer and the director of moody, provocative and literature-inspired music videos.

In 1984, having composed a song called "Maman a tort" with Jerome Dahan for which they needed a female singer, they started auditioning, and Mylène Farmer, a young student in acting, eventually showed up.


Jeff Dahlgren

In 1994 he was the main actor in the French movie Giorgino, directed by Laurent Boutonnat.


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