Beautiful Memories
Se souvenir des belles choses
Zabou Breitman
Claire is slowly losing her memory. She has gone to the Institution des Ecureuils, a clinic specialised in caring for memory loss, where she meets another patient, called Philippe. Little by little, the two become friends and then love each other with a love that is stronger than the illness, or almost...
With : Isabelle Carré, Bernard Campan, Bernard Lecoq, Zabou Breitman, Anne Le Ny, Dominique Pinon, Aude Briant
Screenplay : Zabou Breitman, Jean-Claude Deret
Image : Dominique Chapuis
Sound : Michel Kharat
Editing : Bernard Sasia
Decors : Marc Flouquet
Costumes : Charlotte David
Music : Ferenc Javori
Screenplay : Zabou Breitman, Jean-Claude Deret
Image : Dominique Chapuis
Sound : Michel Kharat
Editing : Bernard Sasia
Decors : Marc Flouquet
Costumes : Charlotte David
Music : Ferenc Javori
Production : Hugo Films, France 3 Cinéma, Les Productions de La Guéville, Les Films de la Colombe
Distribution: SND Films
Distribution: SND Films
Zabou Breitman's first film as a director, Se souvenir des belles choses (Beautiful Memories) explores the difficulties involved in loving when you lose your memory. "A positivist, like the therapist she portrays, Breitman plays with the often burlesque twists of memory. In reflective mood, she leaves room for a stylised evocation of the Shoah [...]. However, to say that memory can be both painful and yet the most precious thing, Zabou leaves the choicest parts to her actors. Isabelle Carré and Bernard Campan are outstanding in this love story where what is forgotten appears as a terribly possessive lover" (Frédéric Strauss). The film won the César for the best first film and Isabelle Carré the César for best actress for her performance as a woman who seems to have been struck by lightening and whose memories are slowly disappearing.