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LA PETITE LILI |
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Director:
Claude Miller
Screenplay: Claude Miller & Julien Boivent
Cast:
Lili: L. Sagnier
Mado Marceaux: N. Garcia
Brice: B. Gireaudeau
Simon Marceaux: J.P. Marielle
Julien Marceaux: R. Stévenin
Jeanne-Marie: J. Depardieu
Awards:
Best Young Actress (Julie Depardieu), César Awards
(2004)
Best Female Performance (Ludivine Sagnier), Chicago International
Film Festival (2003)
Running time: 104'
Year of production: France - 2003
Rating: Not rated (brief nudity and sexual content)
Gauge: 35mm, DVD (color)
Distributor: First Run Features
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“…
“La Petite Lili” pays off in a revelatory
final act…[it] becomes a Pirandellian puzzle reminiscent
of Truffaut’s “Day for Night.” It argues
that people, given the opportunity, move on and mature,
their memories intact but their wounds still healing.”
Stephen Holden, The New York Times |
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In La Petite
Lili, Claude Miller adapts Anton Chekov’s classic play
The Seagull set in a beautiful country house in Brittany.
When the young and overly sensitive Julien screens his first
art-film to his mother, a famous actress, and her boyfriend
Brice, an accomplished filmmaker, the delicate peace of the
household begins to unravel. The sexy young Lili, who stars
in Julien’s film, dreams of becoming a famous actress
like Mado, Julien’s mother. Fascinated by Brice, she
sets her mind on seducing him and he gladly falls prey to
her charms. Julien, on the other hand, is infuriated by Mado
and Brice. He feels that they did not understand a word of
what he was trying to accomplish in his film. He has little
respect for Brice’s work, and he is hurt even more when
he sees Lili flirt with him. Lili’s ambitions, however,
will stop at nothing and she soon convinces Brice to leave
Mado and take her to Paris to become an actress. Mado and
Julien are left to pick up the pieces of their disrupted lives
and for Julien the loss is almost fatal. Claude Miller updates
The Seagull’s dour ending five years later. Lili has
become a famous actress and Mado and Brice live together again.
Julien reunites them in his first, highly autobiographical,
feature film where he attempts to recreate that tempestuous
summer.
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