The Gods Must Be Dancing

La divine poursuite

France

1997

102 Min

Color

1.85:1

French

Currently 2.0/5 Stars.
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SCR Michel Deville, Rosalinde Deville, Donald E. Westlake

CAST Antoine de Caunes, Emmanuelle Seigner, Élodie Bouchez, Denis Podalydès, Robert Plagnol, Richard Gotainer, Olivier Py, Frédéric Gélard, Roschdy Zem, Hubert Koundé, Christian Benedetti, Hélène de Fougerolles, Amanda Langlet, Nozha Khouadra, Laure Marsac, Agnès Obadia, Jean-François Perrier, Laurence Masliah, Bernard Farcy, Pierre-Jean Chérer, Denis Chérer, Sandra Cheres

SOUND François Groult, Jean Minondo

Synopsis

In life, everyone runs all the time : to take the lift to the top floor (delivery men), the fire-escape (the thieves), the motorway, the next plane, the next man’s seat, the next man’s wife. Everyone runs to get somewhere and to be in the race. Because everybody is looking for something : a taxi, a parking place, a job, a bar, a swindle, an escape, a little sushine, money, trouble, ideas, God or “gods”. And sometimes, someone happens to find everything that he’s looking for. —UniFrance

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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