Nearest to Heaven

Au plus près du paradis

France, Canada, Spain

2002

100 Min

Color

2.35:1

French, English

Currently 3.0/5 Stars.
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PROD Olivier Bomsel, Andrés Vicente Gómez, Gilles Sandoz, Fabienne Vonier

SCR Tonie Marshall, Anne-Louise Trividic

CAST Catherine Deneuve, William Hurt, Bernard Le Coq, Hélène Fillières, Gilbert Melki, Nathalie Richard, Patrice Chéreau, Noémie Godin-Vigneau, Emmanuelle Devos, Daniel Pommereulle, François Arnal, Christian Cloarec, Sebastien Fontaine, Paulina Porizkova

SOUND Jean-Jacques Ferran, Jean-Pierre Laforce, Béatrice Wick

Venice (Competition)

Synopsis

One evening, a woman meets a man she used to know when they were students: he was in love with her but she loved someone else. When the name Philippe, her first love, is uttered, it acts as a sort of revelation and she ends up in a movie theater screening the Empire State Building scene from An Affair to Remember. The woman is writing a book on an artist and she has to go to New York to complete it. One morning, a letter, left by a figure that could be Philippe, read in the rain and immediately erased, fixes an appointment at the top of the Empire State Building. Is this real? Like a young woman in love again, she rushes off to New York City to find out. –inbaseline

Director

Tonie Marshall

Tonie Marshall (born 29 November 1951 in Neuilly-sur-Seine, Hauts-de-Seine, France) is an actress, screenwriter, and film director in French cinema. She is the daughter of American actor William Marshall and French actress, Micheline Presle and the half-sister of actor Mike Marshall.

Her 1999 film Venus Beauty Institute (Vénus beauté (institut)) won the 2000 César Award for Best Film and she won the César Award for Best Director and for Best Writing – Original or Adaptation. In 2002 her film Au plus près du paradis was nominated for the Golden Lion Award as best film at the Venice Film Festival. Marshall is a signatory of the “Free Roman Polanski” Petition. —Wikipedia

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