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La vie moderne

France

2000

123 Min
Color
1.85:1
French
Subtitled in English
Audio in French
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DIR Laurence Ferreira Barbosa

PROD Paulo Branco, Patricia Plattner

SCR Laurence Ferreira Barbosa, Bruno Guiblet

DP Christophe Beaucarne

CAST Isabelle Huppert, Frédéric Pierrot, Lolita Chammah, Juliette Andréa, Jean-Pierre Gos, Aurélien Recoing, Marc Rioufol, Robert Kramer, Teo Saavedra

ED Yann Dedet

PROD DES Yves Fournier

MUSIC Faton Cahen

SOUND Henri Maïkoff

Karlovy Vary (The French Woman and Love)

Synopsis

Marguerite is a solitary 17-year old, overly judgemental of others and incapable of having a normal relationship with anyone. Unable to confide in either her family or her schoolmates, she spends most of her time alone, talking to God. Meanwhile, an older woman, Claire has become frustrated at not being able to have a child. Suspecting that her partner is sterile, she goes to Paris to consult a fertility expert. She ends up having a series of liaisons with desirable men who are more than willing to give her a child. In another part of Paris, a man in his late thirties, Jacques, is trying to restore his self-esteem after losing his wife, his child and his job. He becomes entangled with a mysterious young woman Eva, who engages him as a private detective to trace her missing sister. Three people, three lives… can any of them find what they are looking for? —filmsdefrance.com

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Laurence Ferreira Barbosa

Laurence Ferreira Barbosa (born 1958) is a French film director and screenwriter. She has directed eleven films since 1983. —wikipedia 

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Lorna Singh

9Sep10

A too long,forgettable film with a script that ,somehow,made the three characters not very interesting.Which is unfortunate,because it started off with so much potential.

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