Benoît Lestang

Known for Costume & Make-UpBorn 1964-12-14Died 2008-07-27Basel, Switzerland

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.Read more

Movies & web series

Martyrs

Tell No One

The City of Lost Children

The Trail

Amen.

Manderlay

Kings & Queen

Beautiful Memories

Brotherhood of the Wolf

On Guard

Jacquou the Rebel

Safe Conduct

The Story of Marie and Julien

Martyrs: Organic Chronicles

Time Regained

Tiresia

Alissa

Demonlover

The Pact of Silence

The Living Dead Girl

House of Voices

Baby Blood

Héros

Sentimental Destinies

Second life

The Do-Gooders

Ogroff

Double zéro

Virus au paradis

Brocéliande