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Director: François Ozon
Screenplay: François Ozon
Cast:
Romain: Melvil Poupaud
Laura: Jeanne Moreau
Jany: Valeria Bruni Tedeschi
The Father: Daniel Duval
The Mother: Marie Rivière
Sasha: Christian Sengewald
Awards:
Best Actor (Melvil Poupaud), Valladolid International
Film Festival (2005)
Running time: 85’
Production: France, 2005
Rating: Not Rated (nudity and sexual content)
Gauge: 35mm and DVD (color)
Genre: Drama
Distributor: Strand Releasing
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"Poupaud, a newcomer to Ozon's semi-official rep
company of players, anchors pic with an affecting, unself-pitying
perf and brings a subtle physicality to the role".
Variety
"The CinemaScope format may seem a surprising
choice for so intimate a story, but it plays off. Cinematographer
Jeanne Lapoirie creates wide spaces where Romain may
lose himself to ponder his fate".
Hollywood Reporter
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Parisian photographer
Romain seems to have the perfect life : a great career, an
adoring boyfriend and a beautiful appartment. This all changes
when he learns that he is terminally ill and has only a few
months to live. Upon hearing the news, Romain faces a delicate
situation: while he has to come to grasp with his iminent
death, he also has to figure out how to tell his family and
friends and say goodbye to all of them. Incapable of telling
them the truth, Romain has a fight with his sister at a family
dinner, breaks up with his boyfriend, isolates himself from
his friends and cancels his scheduled photo shoots. The only
person he confines in his beloved bohemian grandmother and
Jany, a young waitress he meets at a rest stop. Jany and her
husband are unable to have a child together and Romain accepts
to sleep with her so that she can get pregnant. Romain’s
last deed will be to write his will on behalf of the unborn
child.
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