The Flip Side
Locked in a room of the Film Awards ceremony building, an actress is forced to watch the show on a TV, as her "double" delivers her vengeance.
Revenge is best served cold and live!
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Rosalie CARNWriter
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Rosalie CARNDirector
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Nicola GregoryProducerShepherd by Russell Owen
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Sofia StavrinouKey Cast"Young Scarlett/Sabine"Enola Holmes
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Chloe WadeKey Cast"Emily"The Fall (I)2021
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Rosalie CARNKey Cast"Stand-In Sister Agatha"Dracula BBC/Netflix
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Project Title (Original Language):Le Revers de La Médaille
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Project Type:Short
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Runtime:12 minutes 36 seconds
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Completion Date:March 1, 2022
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Production Budget:7,000 GBP
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Country of Origin:United Kingdom
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Country of Filming:United Kingdom
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Language:English
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Shooting Format:digital
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Aspect Ratio:16.9
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Film Color:Color
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First-time Filmmaker:Yes
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Student Project:No
Actress/director/screenwriter for more than fifteen years for stage, cinema and television. On screen Rosalie interprets various roles. Period films and comedies by Rene Féret and TV series in France. In the UK Peter Cataneo directes her in Diana and I, as well as Paul McGuigan in Netflix/BBC mini-series Dracula by Steven Moffat/Mark Gatiss. On stage she played repertoire playwrights 'Molière, Shakespeare,Tchekhov' as well as contemporary & original plays. She also created her one-woman-show comedy "Actress instructions manual" in Paris, for Avignon Festival and on tour 2009-2011. She wrote & directed the short comedy "Happy Birthday My Love" in 2019. In 2021-2022 she went on to make her award-winning short thriller 'The Flip Side' with an all-female cast and crew. Rosalie lives in London since 2016 and continues her collaborations in France and regularly returns to Paris to lend her voice to advertising campaigns for the likes of Carita or Chopard. Screenwriter in English & French she is currently developing a romantic comedy feature and her next psychological thriller feature: Forgotten
The idea of The Flip Side's story came to me as I wondered,
'what effect can trivial incidents have on our lives?' 'How far can the butterfly effect reach?'.
An event in the little girls' childhood will trigger a deep obsession and lead to a clod revenge. The heart of this
obsession is the search for 'identity'
, with a feeling of one life for two.
Challenging their sense of worthiness as individuals, their strong resemblance will determine the protagonists'
destiny and give birth to a violent rivalry.
I have witnessed competition between actors in the film industry, but what struck me the most was an even fiercer
rivalry between women.
This script explores identity in its narcissistic aspect. Scarlett is mesmerized by her own 'fabricated' image and
persona.
Nowadays, social networks have radically changed our perception of reality and given birth to a frantic
race to create an 'idealized version of ourselves'
, a so-called 'enhanced version of reality'.
So comes the question: who is the real Scarlett? Without her glory and her celebrity mask, who is she?
Is she any different from her lookalike? If love moves mountains, what would the cold revenge of a woman do?
I like to explore the themes of jealousy and revenge with a reference to Cain & Abel.
Nevertheless, I insisted that the two characters weren't twin sisters. In that sense, I wanted to broaden the
possibility of that story applying to anyone should they ever meet their doppelganger like John in Daphné Du Maurier's thriller novel The Scapegoat.