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Riviera

France

2005

94 Min
Color
1.85:1
French
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DIR Anne Villacèque

PROD Nicolas Blanc

SCR Anne Villacèque, Chantal Poupaud

DP Pierre Milon

CAST Miou-Miou, Elie Semoun, Vahina Giocante, Mathieu Simonet, Antoine Basler, Franc Bruneau

ED Anne Riegel

PROD DES Nicolas Chick

MUSIC Marc Collin

SOUND Jean-Claude Brisson

Locarno (International Competition), Toronto (Contemporary World Cinema), Stockholm (Competition), London

Synopsis

Stella lives in the French Riviera with her mother, Antoinette. As Antoinette spends her days cleaning the villas of the wealthy, Stella spends her time partying at the local clubs. When Stella meets a real estate agent who falls in love with her, the lives of both change drastically.

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Anne Villacèque

Anne Villacèque was born on April 30, 1963 in Toulouse. She graduated from the Ecole normale supérieure (Paris), studied Philosophy at the University Paris X in Nanterre and film direction at the Fémis film school (Ecole nationale supérieure des métiers de l’image et du son) in Paris. In 1993, she directed her first short film, Nos vacances. –Berlinale 

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lulidelgado

28Feb11

Just in case you want to hear the song ¨I wish I was a boy¨again.... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bnqEEuVPRJE

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stuart

15Jan11

Lots of nice breasts in this film.

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BC

8Apr10

I didn't think it was to slow or drawn out at all..... I really enjoyed it. Structually - not amazing. But perhaps that was the beauty of it?

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Geneya

28Jan09

not great. Photography was the best thing about it. This really wanted to be something it's not.

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By boriska​rloff on February 22, 2010

I’ve never seen a bad French film. Until this. The script must have been 20 pages long because 130 minutes are shot in four locations with ten lines of dialogue. Is that a bad thing? It wouldn’t be…  read review

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By Exilein​Arden on September 8, 2009

Wow . . . this reminds me somehow of Hitchcock’s stated desire in the 60s to do a film that would respond to the aesthetics of the French New Wave and Antonioni.  read review

That may be too high a praise…

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By Kim Packard on April 4, 2008

Stella and her mother Antoinette are women without money or power in a man’s world. Youthful Stella’s employers are men who need women to be “serious” about “looking good” because attractive and sexy…  read review

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By Halim Cillov on January 31, 2008

I thought this was one of the most sophisticated and succinct depictions of the corrupting and ever-consuming Power of Sex; how it can consume and drive some of us into madness, as it can also destroy…  read review

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