History Film / Backstage2005

''Backstage'' is a 2005 French drama film directed by Emmanuelle Bercot and co-written by Bercot and Jérôme Tonnerre.

** The mob of fans coming for Lorraine in the last third of the film is also pretty unhinged.

** It's an understatement to say that Lucie is obsessed with Lauren beyond reasonable. Having been too overwhelmed by emotion to talk to her when she came at her own home, she does everything to meet her again afterwards. Surprisingly, Lauren doesn't mind her staying at her hotel room for no reason (probably because she isn't the same unhinged kind as the loud ones who camp outside the hotel, at least initially), even allowing her in her bathroom as she's naked in a bath. Lauren's manager even ponders if she doesn't find something reassuring in Lucie, who also gradually gets to see how unhappy Lauren is, connecting with her on a level most fans can't.

* CelebCrush: Lucie straddles the line between being a [[LoonyFan very obsessive fan]] and being in love with Lauren ("It disgusts me that she has a man. She is pure.").

** It's an understatement to say that Lucie is ''obsessed'' with Lauren. Having been too overwhelmed by emotion to talk to her when she came at her own home, she does everything to meet her again afterwards. Surprisingly, Lauren doesn't mind her staying at her hotel room for no reason (probably because she isn't the same unhinged kind as the loud ones who camp outside the hotel, at least initially), even allowing her in her bathroom as she's naked in a bath. Lauren's manager even ponders if she doesn't find something reassuring in Lucie, who also gradually gets to see how unhappy Lauren is, connecting with her on a level most fans don't.

** It's an understatement to say that Lucie is ''obsessed'' with Lauren. Having been too overwhelmed by emotion to talk to her when she came at her own home, she does everything to meet her again afterwards. Surprisingly, Lauren doesn't mind her staying at her hotel room for no reason (probably because she isn't the same kind as the loud ones who camp outside the hotel, being rather subdued), even allowing her in her bathroom as she's naked in a bath. Lauren's manager even ponders if she doesn't find something reassuring in Lucie, who also gradually gets to see how unhappy Lauren is, connecting with her on a level most fans don't.

* StalkerWithACrush: Lucie is a weird example in that her stalking is accepted by Lauren for most of the film.

* MoodSwinger: The increasingly unhappy Lauren can change mood quite abruptly, from taking Lucie as a quasi-confidant to rejecting her and letting her come by her side again and having a SleepCute moment with her head on Lucie's shoulder.

* [[invoked]][[PromotedFanboy Promoted Fangirl]]: Lucie is an obsessive fan of Lauren, and Lauren simply doesn't mind her presence around her, even making her an employee and confidant. And she ends up in an affair with Lauren's most prominent ex-boyfriend.

* StalkerWithACrush: Lucie is a weird example in that her stalking is accepted by Lauren for most of the film, and her presence actually causes some positive outcomes for Lauren.

* SelfHarm: Lucie goes as far as scarring herself on the chest, the same place Lauren has a scar on.

* SkywardScream: Lucy lets a scream towards the sky out when getting out of the hotel after meeting Lauren for the second time.

** Lauren mentions at one point that a mob of fans stayed under her hotel room's windows shouting until ''4 am''.

* [[invoked]][[PromotedFanboy Promoted Fangirl]]: Lucie is an obsessive fan of Lauren, and Lauren simply doesn't mind her presence around her, even making her an employee and confidant. And she ends up in an affair with Lauren's most prominent ex.

* [[invoked]][[PromotedFanboy Promoted Fangirl]]: Lucie is an obsessive fan of Lauren, and Lauren simply doesn't mind her presence around her, even making her an employee and confidant.

* ProneToTears: At the beginning, the closest Lucie is to Lauren, the more likely she'll cry under the heavy emotional stress her obsession with Lauren gives her.