Benoît Lestang

Benoît Lestang

Benoît Lestang (14 December 1964 – 27 July 2008) was a French special effects designer and makeup artist who worked on a number of French films. Lestang began working as a collaborator on the French fantasy film magazine Starfix in the 1980s. Lestang worked as an effects artist on the American horror film Brain Damage (1988). He also worked as a special effects makeup artist on numerous French films, including Baby Blood (1990), Sade (2000), Brotherhood of the Wolf (2001), and The Diving Bell and the Butterfly (2007). Lestang worked as an effects artist on two films by Pascal Laugier: Saint Ange (2004) and Martyrs (2008), as well as on Olivier Assayas's Sentimental Destinies (2000) and Demonlover (2003). In 2005, Lestang directed the music video for Mylène Farmer's song "Q.I.". Lestang died by suicide in Paris on 25 July 2008, shortly before the release of Martyrs. Source: Article "Benoît Lestang" from Wikipedia in English, licensed under CC-BY-SA.

  • Title: Benoît Lestang
  • Popularity: 0.0546
  • Known For: Costume & Make-Up
  • Birthday: 1964-12-14
  • Place of Birth: Basel, Switzerland
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  • Also Known As: Benoît Lestan
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Benoît Lestang Movies

  • 2009
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    Martyrs: Organic Chronicles

    Martyrs: Organic Chronicles

    6.2 2009 HD

    This is a very long and incredibly informative featurette that goes deep behind the scenes of Pascal Laugier's film. The French director explains how...

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  • 2003
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    Brocéliande

    Brocéliande

    3.7 2003 HD

    Chloé, a student specializing in Celtic History, participate in a dig in the forest of Broceliande while a series of murder occurs on the...

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  • 2002
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    Demonlover

    Demonlover

    5.8 2002 HD

    A French corporation goes head-to-head with an American web media company for the rights to a 3-D manga pornography studio, resulting in a power...

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  • 1999
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    Time Regained

    Time Regained

    6.3 1999 HD

    In early 1920s France, an author, lying on his deathbed, looks at various photographs and is flooded with memories of the people and events that have...

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  • 2000
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    Second life

    Second life

    5.2 2000 HD

    Vansan is 30 years old, but he never learned to make decisions. Whatever it is. Should he marry his girlfriend, should he start a business with his...

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  • 1997
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    On Guard

    On Guard

    6.7 1997 HD

    France, 17th century, during the reign of Louis XIII. When a dear friend, the Duke of Nevers, is treacherously assassinated by a powerful relative, a...

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  • 1990
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    Baby Blood

    Baby Blood

    5.8 1990 HD

    A cruel circus owner beats and abuses his pregnant wife. One day the circus receives a leopard newly captured in Africa, but the animal soon dies....

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  • 2005
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    Manderlay

    Manderlay

    6.9 2005 HD

    In 1933, a young woman and her father discover an Alabama plantation whose inhabitants live as if slavery had never been abolished. Feeling a sense...

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  • 2004
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    Double zéro

    Double zéro

    4.9 2004 HD

    Ben and Bill are the two worst, completely useless agents - real losers. But who else would you send on a super-difficult top-secret mission? The...

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  • 2004
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    Kings & Queen

    Kings & Queen

    7 2004 HD

    Shortly before her wedding, art gallery director Nora travels from Paris to Grenoble to visit her preteen son, Elias, who is spending time with her...

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  • 2000
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    Sentimental Destinies

    Sentimental Destinies

    5.5 2000 HD

    In late nineteenth century Charante, Protestant minister Jean Barnery causes local disquiet when he arranges a separation from his obsessive wife. He...

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  • 2004
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    House of Voices

    House of Voices

    5.803 2004 HD

    In 1958, in the French Alp, the young servant Anna Jurin arrives in Saint Ange Orphanage to work with Helena while the orphans moved to new families....

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  • 2001
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    Beautiful Memories

    Beautiful Memories

    6.977 2001 HD

    Although barely 30, Claire believes she is showing the first symptoms of Alzheimer's disease, a condition from which her mother has recently died....

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  • 2003
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    The Pact of Silence

    The Pact of Silence

    5.9 2003 HD

    Everyone has a secret. Twins Sarah and Gaëlle near 25; for ten years, Sarah has been a fundamentalist Carmelite in a Brazilian convent, and...

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  • 2005
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    The Do-Gooders

    The Do-Gooders

    5.1 2005 HD

    Three former bank robbers are meeting after 25 years...

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  • 2002
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    Amen.

    Amen.

    6.954 2002 HD

    Kurt Gerstein—a member of the Institute for Hygiene of the Waffen-SS—is appalled to discover that a poison gas he helped discover is...

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  • 1995
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    The City of Lost Children

    The City of Lost Children

    7.2 1995 HD

    A scientist in a surrealist society kidnaps children to steal their dreams, hoping that they slow his aging process.

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  • 2001
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    Brotherhood of the Wolf

    Brotherhood of the Wolf

    6.719 2001 HD

    In 18th century France, the Chevalier de Fronsac and his Native American friend Mani are sent by the King to the Gevaudan province to investigate the...

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  • 2003
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    The Story of Marie and Julien

    The Story of Marie and Julien

    6.4 2003 HD

    Julien is a clockmaker with destructive impulses who decides to blackmail Madame X, a rich, attractive woman who traffics in stolen antiques. What he...

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  • 2002
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    Safe Conduct

    Safe Conduct

    6.6 2002 HD

    During the Nazi occupation of France as two filmmakers attempt to navigate their careers without compromising their ideals. Facing pressure from the...

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  • 2006
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    Tell No One

    Tell No One

    7.231 2006 HD

    A man receives a mysterious email appearing to be from his wife, who was murdered years earlier. As he frantically tries to find out whether she's...

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  • 1982
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    The Living Dead Girl

    The Living Dead Girl

    5.9 1982 HD

    A toxic spill revives a beautiful, dead heiress who, with the help of her childhood friend, must quench her insatiable thirst for blood.

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  • 1983
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    Ogroff

    Ogroff

    5.2 1983 HD

    Ogroff, an AWOL-solider-turned-hermit, lives in the French backwoods, and, still believing war to be raging, slaughters anyone who enters them. One...

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  • 2006
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    The Trail

    The Trail

    6.6 2006 HD

    After her mothers death, Grace, 14, decides to go back to Africa to find her father whom she hasn't seen since her parents divorced. After his plane...

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  • 2008
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    Martyrs

    Martyrs

    7.3 2008 HD

    A young woman’s quest for revenge against the people who kidnapped and tortured her as a child leads her and her best friend, also a victim of...

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  • 2003
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    Tiresia

    Tiresia

    5.9 2003 HD

    Based on the legend of Tiresias, it tells of a transgender woman who is kidnapped by a man and left to die in the woods. She is then saved by a...

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