The life of Octave Parango, a flamboyant ad designer, filled with success, satire, misery and love.The life of Octave Parango, a flamboyant ad designer, filled with success, satire, misery and love.The life of Octave Parango, a flamboyant ad designer, filled with success, satire, misery and love.
- Awards
- 2 wins & 1 nomination
Storyline
Did you know
- TriviaEach time Octave Parango (played by Jean Dujardin) is in a bad trip, Frédéric Beigbeder appears. It certainly refers to the fact that Beigbeder worked himself in an advertising agency as Octave in the movie.
- GoofsWhen Octave's version of the Starlight commercial is shown on television for the first time, the blob of yogurt on his eyebrow disappears and reappears between takes. This commercial is cross-clipped from several different takes. The lack of continuity is most certainly intentional.
- Quotes
Octave Parango: Everything is bought. Love, Art, planet earth, you me. Especially me. The man is a product like any other, with a limit sell by date. I am advertising, I am one of those that make you dream the things you will ever have. Blue skies, never ugly chicks, perfect happiness and retouched in Photoshop. You think I embellished the world? lost, I screw it up. Everything is temporary. Love, Art, planet Earth, you, me. Especially me
- ConnectionsFeatured in Fatal (2010)
Featured review
Advertising is a new sin of mankind.
99 Francs. Advertising is a new sin of mankind. Perhaps these are the words that Octave Parango would have put into his novel if he had written it. The book itself, with the same name by the excellent Frédéric Beigbeder, turned out to be excellent. I have re-read it for the third time and every time it catches the entire advertising industry with its sharp challenges. I decided to watch the film just now, almost 10 years after the first reading of the book. The movie tries to show all the revolutionary mood of the protagonist, but it turns out to be a little crumpled and the film, although it tries to transfer a lot to the screen from the source, unfortunately misses many moments. Otherwise, a pleasant game of all the actors and insanely cool work of the editor.
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- kelvinselimor
- May 9, 2023
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- Release date
- Country of origin
- Official site
- Languages
- Also known as
- 99 франків
- Filming locations
- Château de Ferrières, Ferrières, Seine-et-Marne, France(meeting with Madone executives)
- Production companies
- See more company credits at IMDbPro
Box office
- Budget
- €12,447,638 (estimated)
- Gross worldwide
- $13,444,973
- Runtime1 hour 40 minutes
- Color
- Aspect ratio
- 2.35 : 1
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