Voyage en douce

Le voyage en douce

France

1980

98 Min

Color

French

Currently 3.4/5 Stars.
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SCR Michel Deville, François-Régis Bastide, Camille Bourniquel, Muriel Cerf, Jean Chalon, Pierrette Grainville, Yves Navarre, Jacques Perry, Maurice Pons, Béatrice Privat, Suzanne Prou, Frédéric Rey, Dominique Roulin, Isaure de Saint-Pierre

CAST Dominique Sanda, Geraldine Chaplin, Jacques Zabor, Jean Crubelier, Valerie Masterson, Céline Le Bailly, Jacqueline Parent, André Marcon, Christophe Malavoy

SOUND Henri Morelle

Berlinale (Competition)

Synopsis

Three days in the relationship of two women, both married, who take off to the south of France together. Hélène has walked out on her husband and has come to Lucie to confide her feelings. –BFI

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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