It's Easier for a Camel...

Il est plus facile pour un chameau...

Italy, France

2003

110 Min

Color

1.85:1

Italian, Spanish, French

Currently 3.1/5 Stars.
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SCR Valeria Bruni Tedeschi, Noémie Lvovsky, Agnès de Sacy

CAST Valeria Bruni Tedeschi, Chiara Mastroianni, Jean-Hugues Anglade, Denis Podalydès, Marysa Borini, Roberto Herlitzka, Lambert Wilson, Pascal Bongard, Nicolas Briançon, Yvan Attal, Emmanuelle Devos, Karine Silla, Alma Samel, Uta Samel, Laurent Grévill, Eva Ionesco, Magali Woch

SOUND François Waledisch

Karlovy Vary (Horizons), Edinburgh, London (French Revolutions), Tribeca

Synopsis

As a little girl, Federica fantasized about having beautiful long hair that would grow back as soon as she cut it, about never-ending cones of cotton candy and about countless adventures that took her to the far side of the world. Now a charming thirty-something-single woman, Federica’s fantasies have evolved, adding lovers, stardom, and motherhood to her waking dreams, where Federica continues to press for her everyday life to be as real as the fantasies that invade her. Unfortunately, Federica’s daydreams can only provide a meager distraction from the reality she faces. Her career as a successful playwright is heading south, her boyfriend is pressuring her to start a family, a former lover wishes to rekindle an old affair, her sister is barely talking to her, her brother is self-centered and her loving father is terminally ill. And as if to make matters worse, Federica is rich, too rich, and the guilt that consumes her because of it is pushing her over the edge. As Federica struggles to find meaning in her life, she wrestles with her feelings about death and responsibility. She alleviates the added weight of the haunting guilt that her wealth derives through her vivid imagination, where her reality grows wonderful and, if only fleetingly, gives her the sense that all is perfect in her world. —IMDb

Director

Valeria Bruni Tedeschi

Valeria Bruni Tedeschi has acted in many films since 1986, and has recently been a leading member of the cast in several internationally acclaimed films, such as

If I Were a Rich Man (2002)
the Histoire d’eaux segment in Ten Minutes Older: The Cello
5×2 (2004)
Time to Leave (2005) – in which she played the main female role
Munich (2005)
A Good Year (2006).

She was present at the 2005 Berlinale, the Berlin International Film Festival, to promote two films she had acted in: Tickets (2005), a three-segment film directed by Ermanno Olmi, Abbas Kiarostami, and Ken Loach, and Crustacés et Coquillages, a comedy directed by the French duo of Olivier Ducastel and Jacques Martineau.

She also played a lead role in the short film Drugstore (2000) ³, as part of a French anti-drug awareness raising campaign read more