French comedy director extraordinaire Luc Moullet helms and stars as himself in the nutty mockumentary The Prestige of Death (aka Le Prestige de la Mort, 2006). The premise has Moullet -- in a deprecative self-caricature -- far past the prime of his youth and audience appeal. To regenerate public interest, this scheming opportunist fakes his own death (delayed, within the story, by the passing of Jean-Luc Godard), then assumes the identity of an oddball drifter whose body he finds in the desert during a location-scouting trip. No points for guessing that the ploy works -- but how will Moullet contend with his new persona, or continue his film career, without raising the ire of nearly everyone? ~ Nathan Southern, Rovi