Directed by:
Alain ResnaisCinematography:
Eric GautierComposer:
Mark SnowCast:
Mathieu Amalric, Lambert Wilson, Anne Consigny, Michel Piccoli, Sabine Azéma, Hippolyte Girardot, Pierre Arditi, Andrzej Seweryn, Anny Duperey (more)VOD (1)
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Renowned dramatist Antoine d’Anthac arranges to have friends who appeared in his play Eurydice come together to participate in his funeral and to see a performance of the play by an avant-garde acting company. Do love, life, death, and love after death still have any place on a theater stage? Those who come to fulfill their departed friend’s final wish will have a chance to decide. At almost 90, Alain Resnais has shot another of his surprising movies. Although the picture draws on two plays by Jean Anouilh, the filmmaker isn’t interested in a dialogue between theater and film. His production becomes an opportunity for reflection, for a play between real life and the stage, between the modern and the classic. But it is also a means of referencing his earlier work and the questions that remain unanswered. Perhaps with this film the great French artist is seeking to close his more than 50-year career surrounded by the actors he loves. (Karlovy Vary International Film Festival)
(more)Cast
Mathieu Amalric
France
Best movies:
Lambert Wilson
France
Best movies:
La Dernière Nuit (1981) (TV movie)
The Hollow Crown (2012) (series)
Ernest & Celestine (2012)
Anne Consigny
France
Best movies:
Mesrine Part 2: Public Enemy Number 1 (2008)
The Diving Bell and the Butterfly (2007)
36 - Tödliche Rivalen (2004)
Michel Piccoli
France
Best movies:
Un amour de pluie (1974)
Milou in May (1990)
Mado (1976)
Sabine Azéma
France
Best movies:
A Sunday in the Country (1984)
The Lacemaker (1977)
Life and Nothing But (1989)
Hippolyte Girardot
France
Best movies:
Manon of the Spring (1986)
L'Amour nu (1981)
Paris Je T'Aime (2006)
Pierre Arditi
France
Best movies:
The Count of Monte Cristo (1998) (series)
The Horseman on the Roof (1995)
L'Affaire Dreyfus (1994) (series)
Andrzej Seweryn
Best movies:
Schindler's List (1993)
The French Revolution (1989) (TV movie)
The Promised Land (1974)
Anny Duperey
France
Best movies:
Germinal (1993)
The ComDads (1983)
Light Years (1988)
Gérard Lartigau
Monaco
Best movies:
The Things of Life (1970)
Indochine (1992)
Arizona Colt (1966)
Sylvain Dieuaide
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Marguerite (2015)
Sweet Evil (2010)
You Ain't Seen Nothin' Yet (2012)
Jean-Chrétien Sibertin-Blanc
Luxembourg
Best movies:
Same Old Song (1997)
A Single Girl (1995)
The Chef (2012)
Vimala Pons
India
Best movies:
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Around a Small Mountain (2009)
I'm All Yours (2015)
Denis Podalydès
France
Best movies:
Les Misérables (2000) (series)
Mother (1991)
The Vortex of Life (2022)
Michel Vuillermoz
France
Best movies:
Cyrano de Bergerac (1990)
Atonement (2007)
My Life as a Courgette (2016)
Jean-Noël Brouté
Best movies:
Une femme française (1995)
Family Hero (2006)
Tell No One (2006)
Gabriel Dufay
Best movies:
All Quiet on the Western Front (2022)
You Ain't Seen Nothin' Yet (2012)
Vladimir Consigny
France
Best movies:
At Eternity's Gate (2018)
Wild Grass (2009)
You Ain't Seen Nothin' Yet (2012)