Living in Oblivion (1995)
Directed by Tom DiCillo
Low-budget independent filmmaker Nick Reve tries to keep everything together as his production is plagued with an insecure actress, a megalomaniac star, a pretentious beret-wearing director of photography, and lousy catering.
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(There are echoes of the fraying realities of the fictional directors played by Steve Buscemi in Living in Oblivion and Philip Seymour Hoffman in Synecdoche, New York .)
Consider that old saw of a dwarf actor enlisted for a surreal dream sequence in an art film (already definitively put out to pasture by Tom DiCillo's Living in Oblivion ), here made "palatable" by having said little person be a bigoted prig given to hiring Dutch whores and frequenting Ray's drug-dealer love interest (Clémence Poésy).
This diminutive dyspeptic, Jimmy (Jordan Prentice, in a peculiar gloss on Peter Dinklage's role in Living in Oblivion) keeps himself entertained with hookers and drugs, the latter provided by Chloe (Poesy), who Ray comes to see as a kindred spirit.
As per the satire in Living in Oblivion, the scene being shot features a dwarf (Jordan Prentice) in a dream sequence.