Life's Little Treasures

Aux petits bonheurs

France

1994

103 Min

Color

1.85:1

French

Currently 2.0/5 Stars.
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CAST Anémone, Xavier Beauvois, André Dussollier, Nicole Garcia, Sylvie Laporte, Michèle Laroque, François Marthouret, Hanna Schygulla, Patrick Chesnais, Denise Bonal, Samuel Labarthe, Michel Raskine, Aurélien Recoing, Philippe Uchan, Max Aulivier, Philippe Duquesne, Dany Kogan, Frédéric Tokarz, Viktor Miletic

SOUND François Groult, Jean Minondo

Synopsis

Three couples share a large house in the country, along with Cécile, a babysitter, and Hélène, their guest. The relationships between these disparate individuals are far from straightforward. Pierre has been faithful to his wife Ariane, but she has been pursing an affair with Matthieu, who is married to Sabine. Lena is married to Bertrand, but, in his absence, she has taken a young lover, Marc. She also has a son, Michel. Hélène returned to the house in the hope of finding the man she fell in love with 25 years ago. —Filmsdefrance

Director

Michel Deville

Michel Deville (born 13 April 1931) is a French film director and screenwriter.

Deville started his filmmaking career in the late 1950s, paralleling the emergence of the French New Wave directors. He never achieved the level of critical and international recognition of some of his contemporaries such as François Truffaut, Jean-Luc Godard and Chabrol, possibly because of his more conventional filmmaking style. Nevertheless his films, especially his comedies from the 1970s and 1980s, were popular in his native France.

One of Deville’s comedies, La Lectrice (“The Reader”) was probably his biggest success with international audiences. La Lectrice is about a woman (played by Miou-Miou), who finds work reading novels for the blind but gradually finds herself unwittingly attracting a clientele of fetishists who enjoyed being read to. At one time his films were difficult to find in North America but presently(2007) seven of his films are available in DVD in the U.S.

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