Country: France
Year: 2007
Duration: 107'


Marcelline is an actress, haunted by her role of Natalia Petrovna, heroine of Turgenev’s A Month in the Country, which she is rehearsing with great difficulty. She tries to wash away her anxieties but nothing can stop time marching on, cruelly reminding her that she’s forty and still without child. Ever astonished by a world to which she has never found the key. But what can truly help her understand what she is doing on earth?

“The movie is about a woman who feels, all of a sudden, that she’s woken up. As if she’d been asleep all her life, living in a dream, removed from reality. She’s an actress. Acting is her job. She’s lived on stage, loved on stage, suffered on stage, desired on stage. In her life, she is alone. Childless. Why is her life like this? Deep down, she doesn’t know. Time has passed and she’s never had time. But time for what? To have time. My film could really be called ‘Life is a Dream.’”

Biography

film director

Valeria Bruni Tedeschi

(Turin, Italy, 1965), once finishing her studies, moved to Nanterre, where she attended the Pierre Romans and Patrice Chéreau acting school. Two of her first films are Hotel de France (1987) by Patrice Chéreau and L’Amoureuse (1992) by Jacques Doillon. In 1993 she obtained great recognition and several awards with Les Gens normaux n’ont rien d’exceptionel (1993) by Laurence Ferreira Barbosa. She then worked in Italy with Pupi Avati, Giuseppe Piccioni, Marco Bellocchio and Mimmo Calopresti, but she concentrated her acting career primarily in France, with important directors like Noémie Lvovsky, Pascal Bonitzer, Claire Denis, Marion Vernoux. In 2003 she debuted as a director with Il est plus facile pour un chameau..., which was presented at the Torino Film Festival.

FILMOGRAFIA

Il est plus facile pour un chameau... (È più facile per un cammello..., 2003), Actrices (2007).

Cast

& Credits

regia/director Valeria Bruni Tedeschi
soggetto, sceneggiatura/screenplay, story Valeria Bruni Tedeschi, Noémie Lvosky, Agnès De Sacy
fotografia/director of photography Jeanne Lapoirie
scenografia/set design Emmanuelle Duplay
costumi/costume design Caroline De Vivaise
montaggio/film editor
Anne Weil
suono/sound
François Waldedisch
interpreti e personaggi/cast and characters Valeria Bruni Tedeschi (Marcelline), Noémie Lvovsky (Nathalie), Mathieu Amalric (Denis), Louis Garrel (Éric), Marisa Borini (la madre/mother), Valeria Golino (Nathalia Petrovna), Maurice Garrel (il padre/father), Simona Marchini (la zia/aunt), Bernard Nissille (Jean-Paul), Olivier Rabourdin (Marc), Laetitia Spigarelli (Juliette), Gilles Cohen (Jean-Luc), Marie Rivière (l’addetta al guardaroba/wardrobe mistress), Franck Demules (barman), Souz Chirazi (il ginecologo/gynaecologist), Arthur Igual (l’istruttore di nuoto/swimming instructor), Brian Mac Cormack (l’insegnante di inglese/English teacher), Éric Elmosnino (Raymond), Robinson Stévenin (Julien), Laurent Grévill (Arthur)
produttore/producer Olivier Delbosc, Marc Missonnier
produzione/production Fidélité Films
coproduzione/coproduction Virtual Film, Canal +, Centre National de la Cinématographie
distribuzione, vendita all’estero/distribution, world sales Wild Bunch
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