PAS SUR LA
BOUCHE
NOT ON THE LIPS |
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Director:
Alain Resnais
Screenplay: Alain Resnais
Cast:
Gilberte Valandray: S. Azéma
Arlette Poumaillac: I. Nanty
Huguette Verberie: A.Tautou
Georges Valandray: P. Arditi
Eric Thomson: L. Wilson
Charley: J. Lespert
Faradel: D. Prévost
Madame Foin: D. Cowl
Awards:
Best Costume Design, Best Sound, Best Supporting Actor
(Darryl Cowl), César Awards (2004)
Running time: 116'
Year of production: France Switzerland, 2003
Rating: Not rated (general public)
Gauge: 35mm, DVD (color)
Distributor: Wellspring Media
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“Not
on the Lips is at once studiously conventional and wildly
experimental… Time and memory have long been [Renais’]
principal themes, and the formal tension between the thoroughly
dated material and its up-to-the-minute presentation (highly
saturated color, 5.1 surround sound…) creates a
kind of bumpy, dysfunctional time machine.” Dave
Kehr, The New York Times |
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Gilberte Valandray,
a high-society lady, enjoys a lavish lifestyle in Paris spending
most of her time entertaining friends and admirers. She is
married to Georges Valandray, a rich industrialist who assumes
that he is Gilberte’s very first lover. Little does
he know, however, that he is in fact her second husband. A
long time ago, Gilberte married an American, Eric Thomson,
when she lived in the United States. The marriage did not
work out and she moved back to Paris. All is going well until,
by pure coincidence, Georges meets Eric and they seem close
to becoming business partners and friends. Gilberte and her
sister try their best to keep Gilberte’s past hidden
from Georges, but everything gets more and more complicated.
Gilberte receives numerous advances from her admirers and
various relationships form around her between friends and
family. Misunderstandings and innuendo run deep. Her secret
is about to be revealed and her reputation ruined when all
the characters meet in a friend’s love nest. Based on
André Bardes’ 1920s-era operetta, Not on the
Lips is a tribute to the comical productions of that period.
The art-deco sets and costumes, the singing, the clever dialogue
and the happy ending make for a sophisticated and highly entertaining
farce.
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