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Where Haneke had two high-end French thesps (Emmanuelle Riva and Jean-Louis Trintignant) to enact his passion play, Noé’s casting choices give a greater sense of naturalism and the quotidian. The suffering couple, whose actual names aren’t specified, are
Dario Argento, the Giallo master little known for his on-screen acting; and
Françoise Lebrun, famously a non-professional when she was cast in her lover Jean Eustache’s
The Mother and the Whore. Noé also, intelligently and originally, doesn’t attempt to evoke his actors’ filmic associations in any way, save for the fact that Argento’s character did work as a professional film critic before auteur success beckoned.
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