Private Fears in Public Places
Cœurs
Alain Resnais
In a snowy Paris, between Bercy and the Grande Bibliothèque, Dan, a recently discharged soldier, takes to drink to escape from any form of social life. His girlfriend Nicole nevertheless keeps on believing in them as a couple and tries to find a flat helped by Thierry, an estate agent. At the agency, his employee Charlotte is both pious and ambiguous. Thierry lives with his sister Gaëlle, who is secretly looking for love, going as far as to looking through the lonely-hearts column. Finally Lionel, a hotel barman, calls on a volunteer home help for his father, a sick and angry old man. Charlotte turns up...
With : Sabine Azéma, Isabelle Carré, Laura Morante, Pierre Arditi, André Dussollier, Lambert Wilson, Claude Rich, Bruno Podalydès, Françoise Gillard, Anne Kessler, Roger Mollien, Florence Muller, Michel Vuillermoz
Screenplay : Jean-Michel Ribes, d'après la pièce "Private Fears in Public Places" de Alan Ayckbourn
Scripte : Sylvette Baudrot
Image : Eric Gautier
Editing : Hervé de Luze
Sound : Jean-Marie Blondel
Decors : Jacques Saulnier, Jean-Michel Ducourty, Solange Zeitoun
Costumes : Jackie Budin
Music : Mark Snow
Screenplay : Jean-Michel Ribes, d'après la pièce "Private Fears in Public Places" de Alan Ayckbourn
Scripte : Sylvette Baudrot
Image : Eric Gautier
Editing : Hervé de Luze
Sound : Jean-Marie Blondel
Decors : Jacques Saulnier, Jean-Michel Ducourty, Solange Zeitoun
Costumes : Jackie Budin
Music : Mark Snow
Production : Soudaine Compagnie, Studio Canal, Arena, Bim Distribuzione
Distribution: Studio Canal
Distribution: Studio Canal
This is an ensemble film adapted from a play by Alan Ayckbourn where the Parisian characters are as well anchored in their public lives as in their private fears. Isabelle Carré plays Gaëlle, an attractive young woman looking for love, meeting people through small ads. For the first time, alongside Laura Morante and Claude Rich, Carré joined Alain Resnais' well-knit troupe made up of the trio of Sabine Azema, Pierre Arditi and André Dussolier. In doing this Resnais opened up this twenty-year-old cinema family to new talents. Isabelle Carré said that "on the second day of filming, he said to me ‘as far as I'm concerned, you've been here for ever'. [...] Under those conditions, there's no way that you can feel like an intruder. I'm not saying that I'm part of the Resnais family because of that, but it is an open family and I feel totally welcomed into it".