Tonight or Never

Ce soir ou jamais

France

1961

104 Min

Black and White

French

Currently 3.7/5 Stars.
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SCR Michel Deville, Nina Companéez

CAST Anna Karina, Claude Rich, Georges Descrières, Jacqueline Danno, Michel de Ré, Guy Bedos, Eliane D'Almeida, Anne Tonietti, Françoise Dorléac, Nicole Gueden

One evening, a group of friends meet to talk about a new play that Laurent has written. But there is already one problem: the girl who was to play the leading role has fallen ill and they need to find someone to take over her part. For Valérie, it’s tonight or never. She must have the part but she also wants Laurent to be the director. Before that, she will learn that, in real life, the play has already started – and it is a cruel and tender comedy… —filmsdefrance.com

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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