Stan the Flasher. Dir. Serge Gainsbourg (1990)

Nathalie CROUAU

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1. Film data

Stan the Flasher


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.


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