(Warning: This post features spoilers for the season finale of HBO Max’s limited series “The Staircase”).
And so we’ve reached the bottom of “The Staircase.” But Thursday’s finale hardly tied everything up with neat, definitive explanations. That would be anathema to the HBO Max limited series that challenged viewers to question the facts of the notorious Michael Peterson true-crime case as well as the nature of storytelling. So instead of neatly answered questions, we are left with the unsettling image of Colin Firth, as Peterson, looking straight into the camera, his mouth curling into a subtle smirk. And then the screen goes black.
What?!
“The idea of that shot, in the way it was scripted, in the way that it’s performed, is that you’re seeing someone be two things at once,” the show’s creator, Antonio Campos, told TheWrap. “And you’re trying to process...
And so we’ve reached the bottom of “The Staircase.” But Thursday’s finale hardly tied everything up with neat, definitive explanations. That would be anathema to the HBO Max limited series that challenged viewers to question the facts of the notorious Michael Peterson true-crime case as well as the nature of storytelling. So instead of neatly answered questions, we are left with the unsettling image of Colin Firth, as Peterson, looking straight into the camera, his mouth curling into a subtle smirk. And then the screen goes black.
What?!
“The idea of that shot, in the way it was scripted, in the way that it’s performed, is that you’re seeing someone be two things at once,” the show’s creator, Antonio Campos, told TheWrap. “And you’re trying to process...
- 6/11/2022
- by Missy Schwartz
- The Wrap
Disputes over Antonio Campos’ HBO Max adaptation of “The Staircase” have some in the documentary community questioning whether they would readily allow a narrative director to turn their facts into fiction.
“The Staircase” revolves around the death of Kathleen Peterson and the murder trial of her husband Michael, as the filmmakers chronicling the case for a docuseries of the same name become central characters in the storytelling. Kathleen Peterson was found dead at the bottom of the staircase of their North Carolina home in 2001, and Michael was convicted of murder in 2003 before accepting an Alford plea for manslaughter charges in 2017, which freed him for good. The HBO Max series, which concluded this week, stars Colin Firth as Michael and Toni Collette as Kathleen; documentary filmmaker Jean-Xavier de Lestrade is portrayed by Vincent Vermignon and editor Sophie Brunet by Juliette Binoche.
Shortly after the May 5 premiere of the HBO Max miniseries,...
“The Staircase” revolves around the death of Kathleen Peterson and the murder trial of her husband Michael, as the filmmakers chronicling the case for a docuseries of the same name become central characters in the storytelling. Kathleen Peterson was found dead at the bottom of the staircase of their North Carolina home in 2001, and Michael was convicted of murder in 2003 before accepting an Alford plea for manslaughter charges in 2017, which freed him for good. The HBO Max series, which concluded this week, stars Colin Firth as Michael and Toni Collette as Kathleen; documentary filmmaker Jean-Xavier de Lestrade is portrayed by Vincent Vermignon and editor Sophie Brunet by Juliette Binoche.
Shortly after the May 5 premiere of the HBO Max miniseries,...
- 6/10/2022
- by Addie Morfoot
- Variety Film + TV
“The Staircase” debate takes another spiraling turn.
After the true-crime show — although the words “true crime” don’t easily apply to the murky death at the center of the HBO Max series — concluded on June 9, the real-life players are speaking out on its accuracy. “The Staircase” centers on North Carolina-based novelist and would-be politician Michael Peterson, played by Colin Firth, who is accused, convicted, and then cleared of killing his wife Kathleen (Toni Collette), who died bloodily and presumably alone at the foot of their staircase.
The Peterson case was at the center of a documentary directed by Jean-Xavier de Lestrade that debuted in 2004; additional installments as the case progressed were subsequently released, while editor Sophie Brunet (played by Juliette Binoche in the HBO series) also started a romantic relationship with Peterson. Brunet has since disputed the timeline of these events.
But now, Peterson and de Lestrade are duking it out over the fictionalized depiction,...
After the true-crime show — although the words “true crime” don’t easily apply to the murky death at the center of the HBO Max series — concluded on June 9, the real-life players are speaking out on its accuracy. “The Staircase” centers on North Carolina-based novelist and would-be politician Michael Peterson, played by Colin Firth, who is accused, convicted, and then cleared of killing his wife Kathleen (Toni Collette), who died bloodily and presumably alone at the foot of their staircase.
The Peterson case was at the center of a documentary directed by Jean-Xavier de Lestrade that debuted in 2004; additional installments as the case progressed were subsequently released, while editor Sophie Brunet (played by Juliette Binoche in the HBO series) also started a romantic relationship with Peterson. Brunet has since disputed the timeline of these events.
But now, Peterson and de Lestrade are duking it out over the fictionalized depiction,...
- 6/10/2022
- by Samantha Bergeson
- Indiewire
Antonio Campos’ depiction of documentary filmmakers Jean-Xavier de Lestrade and Sophie Brunet in HBO Max’s “The Staircase” has led to a public dispute over their portrayal in the miniseries adaptation. But now, the real-life main subject of both series – Michael Peterson – is speaking out in an exclusive series of emails to Variety.
Peterson’s wife Kathleen was found dead at the bottom of the staircase of their North Carolina home in 2001. Authorities discovered that Peterson, who identifies as bisexual, was having sexual relationships with men. He was charged with murdering his wife and convicted in 2003. He’s now free, after the charges were reduced to manslaughter in a retrial.
Peterson allowed a camera crew to film him and his family as he awaited trial, which became an extended documentary series that premiered in 2004 (it’s streaming on Netflix). While Peterson isn’t happy with Campos’ HBO series, he’s livid with de Lestrade.
Peterson’s wife Kathleen was found dead at the bottom of the staircase of their North Carolina home in 2001. Authorities discovered that Peterson, who identifies as bisexual, was having sexual relationships with men. He was charged with murdering his wife and convicted in 2003. He’s now free, after the charges were reduced to manslaughter in a retrial.
Peterson allowed a camera crew to film him and his family as he awaited trial, which became an extended documentary series that premiered in 2004 (it’s streaming on Netflix). While Peterson isn’t happy with Campos’ HBO series, he’s livid with de Lestrade.
- 6/9/2022
- by Addie Morfoot
- Variety Film + TV
[Editor’s note: The following story contains spoilers for the end of “The Staircase.”]
Maybe he didn’t push her, but oh, he pushed her.
That’s more or less the takeaway from the final episodes of HBO Max’s “The Staircase,” which exploded a wobbly real-life murder case into a fascination of true-crime-ish television.
Is Antonio Campos’ drama series true crime at all if there maybe wasn’t even a crime truly committed? Across eight episodes, writer/director Campos and writer/producer/co-showrunner Maggie Cohn reopened the Pandora’s box of the Michael Peterson (Colin Firth) case, in which a well-liked Durham, North Carolina novelist and would-be local politico was accused, convicted, and then cleared of the killing of his wife Kathleen (Toni Collette). Peterson became a free man after eight years in prison in 2017, escaping a life of incarceration through a legal loophole known as the Alford plea, which reduced his charge to manslaughter. By pleading guilty, he was able...
Maybe he didn’t push her, but oh, he pushed her.
That’s more or less the takeaway from the final episodes of HBO Max’s “The Staircase,” which exploded a wobbly real-life murder case into a fascination of true-crime-ish television.
Is Antonio Campos’ drama series true crime at all if there maybe wasn’t even a crime truly committed? Across eight episodes, writer/director Campos and writer/producer/co-showrunner Maggie Cohn reopened the Pandora’s box of the Michael Peterson (Colin Firth) case, in which a well-liked Durham, North Carolina novelist and would-be local politico was accused, convicted, and then cleared of the killing of his wife Kathleen (Toni Collette). Peterson became a free man after eight years in prison in 2017, escaping a life of incarceration through a legal loophole known as the Alford plea, which reduced his charge to manslaughter. By pleading guilty, he was able...
- 6/9/2022
- by Ryan Lattanzio
- Indiewire
This story first appeared in the Emmy Race Begins issue of TheWrap magazine.
The critical response to HBO Max’s limited series “The Staircase” has been overwhelmingly positive. But Jean-Xavier de Lestrade, the French filmmaker who directed the Peabody award-winning docu-series of the same name on which the new drama is based, is not participating in the applause.
In a recent interview, de Lestrade told Vanity Fair that he felt “betrayed” by the HBO Max adaptation because he believes it questions his integrity and professionalism. The eight-episode drama tells the story of Michael Peterson (Colin Firth), the crime writer who was convicted in 2003 of killing his wife Kathleen (Toni Collette), whom he claims fell to her death on the stairs in their Durham, North Carolina home. (He was retried in 2011 and eventually took an Alford plea.) In addition to chronicling the trial and aftermath, “The Staircase” also features de Lestrade...
The critical response to HBO Max’s limited series “The Staircase” has been overwhelmingly positive. But Jean-Xavier de Lestrade, the French filmmaker who directed the Peabody award-winning docu-series of the same name on which the new drama is based, is not participating in the applause.
In a recent interview, de Lestrade told Vanity Fair that he felt “betrayed” by the HBO Max adaptation because he believes it questions his integrity and professionalism. The eight-episode drama tells the story of Michael Peterson (Colin Firth), the crime writer who was convicted in 2003 of killing his wife Kathleen (Toni Collette), whom he claims fell to her death on the stairs in their Durham, North Carolina home. (He was retried in 2011 and eventually took an Alford plea.) In addition to chronicling the trial and aftermath, “The Staircase” also features de Lestrade...
- 6/1/2022
- by Missy Schwartz
- The Wrap
While “The Staircase,” HBO Max’s dramatized re-telling of the 2004 true crime documentary, isn’t exactly a recreation, it’s easy to get confused between the fact and fiction of the two while watching them back-to-back.
David Rudolf — the real-life North Carolina defense lawyer who represented Michael Peterson after he was accused of killing his wife Kathleen — knows this, and he isn’t happy about it.
“I get it,” Rudolf told Variety. “And that’s the problem.”
The new series takes a bird’s-eye-view of the case, and includes the documentarians as characters in the story. Following the premiere of the new series on May 5, in a lengthy May 13 story in Vanity Fair, Rudolf and the documentary’s original filmmakers — director Jean-Xavier de Lestrade, producers Allyson Luchak and Matthieu Belghiti, and editors Scott Stevenson and Sophie Brunet — accused the new show’s creator, writer and director Antonio Campos, as well as co-showrunner Maggie Cohn,...
David Rudolf — the real-life North Carolina defense lawyer who represented Michael Peterson after he was accused of killing his wife Kathleen — knows this, and he isn’t happy about it.
“I get it,” Rudolf told Variety. “And that’s the problem.”
The new series takes a bird’s-eye-view of the case, and includes the documentarians as characters in the story. Following the premiere of the new series on May 5, in a lengthy May 13 story in Vanity Fair, Rudolf and the documentary’s original filmmakers — director Jean-Xavier de Lestrade, producers Allyson Luchak and Matthieu Belghiti, and editors Scott Stevenson and Sophie Brunet — accused the new show’s creator, writer and director Antonio Campos, as well as co-showrunner Maggie Cohn,...
- 6/1/2022
- by Sasha Urban
- Variety Film + TV
The makers of the original 2004 docuseries "The Staircase" — the basis for the current dramatized HBO Max miniseries starring Colin Firth and Toni Colette — are alleging that the miniseries undermines the credibility of their work. "The Staircase" won a Peabody Award in 2005, and reviews for the new miniseries, created by Antonio Campos, have been positive. Both the original docuseries and the miniseries currently hold a 94 on Rotten Tomatoes. However, Jean-Xavier de Lestrade, the director of the docuseries, and Sophie Brunet, one of the editors who worked on it, maintain that Campos abused their trust and presents inaccurate depictions in his series.
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- 5/16/2022
- by Joshua Meyer
- Slash Film
A war of words has broken out between the filmmakers who have brought audiences two different versions, nearly two decades apart, of the real-life mystery behind The Staircase.
French director Jean-Xavier de Lestrade’s 2004 Peabody Award-winning documentary told the story of the fortunate Peterson family who lived in a luxurious mansion in North Carolina, until Kathleen Peterson’s body was discovered at the foot of a staircase, and her husband Michael was tried for murder.
More recently, Antonio Campos has adapted the same story into an HBO Max TV drama series starring Colin Firth and Toni Collette.
De Lestrade and his team enjoyed privileged access to Michael Peterson and his family during the trial and years that followed, and Campos’s drama highlights this close connection, including a romantic relationship between Michael Peterson and the documentary’s editor Sophie Brunet.
The drama also depicts the documentary team exerting their editorial control in ways that,...
French director Jean-Xavier de Lestrade’s 2004 Peabody Award-winning documentary told the story of the fortunate Peterson family who lived in a luxurious mansion in North Carolina, until Kathleen Peterson’s body was discovered at the foot of a staircase, and her husband Michael was tried for murder.
More recently, Antonio Campos has adapted the same story into an HBO Max TV drama series starring Colin Firth and Toni Collette.
De Lestrade and his team enjoyed privileged access to Michael Peterson and his family during the trial and years that followed, and Campos’s drama highlights this close connection, including a romantic relationship between Michael Peterson and the documentary’s editor Sophie Brunet.
The drama also depicts the documentary team exerting their editorial control in ways that,...
- 5/15/2022
- by Caroline Frost
- Deadline Film + TV
The mystery surrounding the death of Kathleen Peterson has been a hot topic for over 20 years.
Netflix attempted to lift the lid on what led to the tragic death in its docuseries, The Staircase, but many pivotal components didn't make it to the final edit.
HBO Max's drama series The Staircase offers a more informed approach to the details of the case.
Five of the eight episodes were screened for critics before the premiere, and the show's best aspect is how it examines all possibilities.
The series confidently highlights the weeks leading up to Kathleen's death, the case against her husband, Michael Peterson, and plenty of shocking details about those in their orbit.
Unless you paid close attention to the case as it played back in the early 2000s, there is probably a lot you don't know about it.
Then again, the people who took the Netflix series as...
Netflix attempted to lift the lid on what led to the tragic death in its docuseries, The Staircase, but many pivotal components didn't make it to the final edit.
HBO Max's drama series The Staircase offers a more informed approach to the details of the case.
Five of the eight episodes were screened for critics before the premiere, and the show's best aspect is how it examines all possibilities.
The series confidently highlights the weeks leading up to Kathleen's death, the case against her husband, Michael Peterson, and plenty of shocking details about those in their orbit.
Unless you paid close attention to the case as it played back in the early 2000s, there is probably a lot you don't know about it.
Then again, the people who took the Netflix series as...
- 5/4/2022
- by Paul Dailly
- TVfanatic
The Staircase, one of Netflix's most anticipated new Summer shows, has finally arrived on the streaming platform, and with it comes a whole lot of mystery. The docuseries hails from Academy Award-winning filmmaker Jean-Xavier de Lestrade and follows the trial and conviction of crime novelist Michael Peterson after he's accused of murdering his wife, Kathleen Peterson, by beating her and throwing her down the stairs of their Durham, Nc, home in 2001. Although there are plenty of interesting themes at play in The Staircase - sexuality, class issues, the unbreakable bonds of family - much of the series revolves around one key question: did Michael Peterson kill his wife or not?
Unfortunately, as mentioned repeatedly by lawyers and law enforcement officers throughout all 13 episodes, the only people who know the real answer to that question are Michael and Kathleen. By the time the credits roll in the final episode, "Imperfect Justice,...
Unfortunately, as mentioned repeatedly by lawyers and law enforcement officers throughout all 13 episodes, the only people who know the real answer to that question are Michael and Kathleen. By the time the credits roll in the final episode, "Imperfect Justice,...
- 6/23/2018
- by Quinn Keaney
- Popsugar.com
Sophie Brunet, an editor for Netflix’s “The Staircase,” was romantically involved with Michael Peterson, the subject of the docuseries, director Jean-Xavier de Lestrade said in an interview. But he added that it didn’t affect the narrative.
Lestrade told the French news weekly L’Express that Brunet had a relationship with Peterson while working on the series. He was responding to a reporter’s comment that Brunet “fell in love (‘qui est tombée amoureuse’)” with Peterson.
“This is one of the incredible things that happened during those 15 years. Life is really full of surprises. They had a real story, which lasted until May 2017,” Peterson replied. “But she never let her own feelings affect the course of editing.”
Also Read: 'The Staircase': What Happened to Blood Spatter Analyst Duane Deaver After the Case?
He did not say how long Brunet and Peterson were romantically involved, or delve into other details about the relationship.
Lestrade told the French news weekly L’Express that Brunet had a relationship with Peterson while working on the series. He was responding to a reporter’s comment that Brunet “fell in love (‘qui est tombée amoureuse’)” with Peterson.
“This is one of the incredible things that happened during those 15 years. Life is really full of surprises. They had a real story, which lasted until May 2017,” Peterson replied. “But she never let her own feelings affect the course of editing.”
Also Read: 'The Staircase': What Happened to Blood Spatter Analyst Duane Deaver After the Case?
He did not say how long Brunet and Peterson were romantically involved, or delve into other details about the relationship.
- 6/11/2018
- by Tim Baysinger
- The Wrap
The International Cinephile Society has announced the nominees for the 11th Ics Awards. Abdellatif Kechiche's "Blue is the Warmest Color," the Coen Brothers' "Inside Llewyn Davis," Spike Jonze's "Her," and Steve McQueen's "12 Years a Slave" dominated the nominations with 7 nods each.
Winners of the 11th Ics Awards will be announced on February 23, 2014.
Here's the complete list of nominees:
Picture
. 12 Years a Slave
. Before Midnight
. Blue is the Warmest Color
. Frances Ha
. Gravity
. The Great Beauty
. Her
. Inside Llewyn Davis
. Laurence Anyways
. Spring Breakers
. The Wolf of Wall Street
Director
. Ethan Coen & Joel Coen - Inside Llewyn Davis
. Alfonso Cuarón - Gravity
. Xavier Dolan - Laurence Anyways
. Spike Jonze - Her
. Abdellatif Kechiche - Blue is the Warmest Color
. Paolo Sorrentino - The Great Beauty
Film Not In The English Language
. Beyond the Hills
. Blancanieves
. Blue is the Warmest Color
. Faust
. The Great Beauty
. The Hunt
. In the...
Winners of the 11th Ics Awards will be announced on February 23, 2014.
Here's the complete list of nominees:
Picture
. 12 Years a Slave
. Before Midnight
. Blue is the Warmest Color
. Frances Ha
. Gravity
. The Great Beauty
. Her
. Inside Llewyn Davis
. Laurence Anyways
. Spring Breakers
. The Wolf of Wall Street
Director
. Ethan Coen & Joel Coen - Inside Llewyn Davis
. Alfonso Cuarón - Gravity
. Xavier Dolan - Laurence Anyways
. Spike Jonze - Her
. Abdellatif Kechiche - Blue is the Warmest Color
. Paolo Sorrentino - The Great Beauty
Film Not In The English Language
. Beyond the Hills
. Blancanieves
. Blue is the Warmest Color
. Faust
. The Great Beauty
. The Hunt
. In the...
- 1/14/2014
- by Manny
- Manny the Movie Guy
Bertrand Tavernier fuses documentary principles, a searing, angry lament for adult responsibility and the necessity for political accountability in his feature "It Starts Today".
The strategy doesn't always work; the film occasionally prefers didactic exchanges to make its dramatic points. However, this unconventional, absorbing work is beautifully constructed and quietly moving. The film, properly handled, should connect with upscale art house audiences at home and abroad.
A former film critic, Tavernier has made brilliant documentaries on varied subjects in his distinguished career. Like the films of British director Ken Loach, Tavernier suffuses this movie with a spontaneity and improvisational feel for unexpected moments and quiet revelations. But he also creates highly formal narrative strategies offset against haunting shots of landscape that mark the passage of time. The work features excellent stage-trained actor Philippe Torreton, whose mesmerizing lead performance in Tavernier's "Capitaine Conan" earned him a best actor Cesar.
In "It Starts Today", Torreton plays Daniel Lefebvre, a passionate and charismatic director of an ambitious kindergarten trapped in bleak Hernaing in northern France. The economically devastated community is laden with acute social problems, resulting in devastating consequences on the school's trained and highly motivated staff.
Lefebvre works tirelessly to facilitate the children's curiosity and mental agility. However, his efforts are handicapped by the ugly realities of the highly restricted economic area. Crises stem from heavy incidents of alcoholism and physical and sexual abuse.
Like Francois Truffaut's superb work on children and more recently, Jacques Doillon's "Ponette", Tavernier doesn't sentimentalize the children or their poverty. He gives them vivid, sharply delineated voices and an emotional range that grounds the material to the specific and concrete. Working with a largely nonprofessional cast, Tavernier strips bare their frailty and naked vulnerability, though always granting them a decency and honesty -- and a hope the film never quite loses despite the mounting hardships and tragedies. Unfortunately, the absence of a unifying narrative diminishes the depth of the work and the stylistic variety, failing to make this a transcendent piece of art.
The succession of verbal confrontations between Lefebvre and the traumatized bureaucracy he constantly battles -- local politicians, ineffective social service workers and overmatched parents -- is needlessly repetitive. It also changes the film's balance, threatening to turn the movie into a social policy primer. Fortunately, Torreton's electric and concentrated performance anchors the film. He not only provides a valuable human dimension, he radiates an intensity and directness that illuminates a corner of the world that too often remains in the dark. Technically, befitting a Tavernier film, the movie is a marvel, with stand-out contributions from great cinematographer Alain Choquart.
IT STARTS TODAY
Alain Sarde and Frederic Bourboulon present
a Les Films Alain Sarde, Little Bear and TFI Films production
Producers: Alain Sarde, Frederic Bourboulon
Director-screenwriter: Bertrand Tavernier
Screenwriters: Dominique Sampiero, Tiffany Tavernier
Director of photography: Alain Choquart
Music: Louis Sclavis
Sound: Michel Desrois, Gerard Lamps
Art director: Thierry Francois
Costumes: Marpessa Djian
Editors: Sophie Brunet, Sophie Mandonnet
Production manager: Francois Hamel
Color/stereo
Cast:
Daniel: Philippe Torreton
Valeria: Maria Pitarresi
Samia: Nadia Kaci
Mrs. Leinard: Veronique Ataly
Cathy: Nathalie Becue
Inspector: Didier Bezace
The Mayor: Gerard Giroudon
Running time --117 minutes
No MPAA rating...
The strategy doesn't always work; the film occasionally prefers didactic exchanges to make its dramatic points. However, this unconventional, absorbing work is beautifully constructed and quietly moving. The film, properly handled, should connect with upscale art house audiences at home and abroad.
A former film critic, Tavernier has made brilliant documentaries on varied subjects in his distinguished career. Like the films of British director Ken Loach, Tavernier suffuses this movie with a spontaneity and improvisational feel for unexpected moments and quiet revelations. But he also creates highly formal narrative strategies offset against haunting shots of landscape that mark the passage of time. The work features excellent stage-trained actor Philippe Torreton, whose mesmerizing lead performance in Tavernier's "Capitaine Conan" earned him a best actor Cesar.
In "It Starts Today", Torreton plays Daniel Lefebvre, a passionate and charismatic director of an ambitious kindergarten trapped in bleak Hernaing in northern France. The economically devastated community is laden with acute social problems, resulting in devastating consequences on the school's trained and highly motivated staff.
Lefebvre works tirelessly to facilitate the children's curiosity and mental agility. However, his efforts are handicapped by the ugly realities of the highly restricted economic area. Crises stem from heavy incidents of alcoholism and physical and sexual abuse.
Like Francois Truffaut's superb work on children and more recently, Jacques Doillon's "Ponette", Tavernier doesn't sentimentalize the children or their poverty. He gives them vivid, sharply delineated voices and an emotional range that grounds the material to the specific and concrete. Working with a largely nonprofessional cast, Tavernier strips bare their frailty and naked vulnerability, though always granting them a decency and honesty -- and a hope the film never quite loses despite the mounting hardships and tragedies. Unfortunately, the absence of a unifying narrative diminishes the depth of the work and the stylistic variety, failing to make this a transcendent piece of art.
The succession of verbal confrontations between Lefebvre and the traumatized bureaucracy he constantly battles -- local politicians, ineffective social service workers and overmatched parents -- is needlessly repetitive. It also changes the film's balance, threatening to turn the movie into a social policy primer. Fortunately, Torreton's electric and concentrated performance anchors the film. He not only provides a valuable human dimension, he radiates an intensity and directness that illuminates a corner of the world that too often remains in the dark. Technically, befitting a Tavernier film, the movie is a marvel, with stand-out contributions from great cinematographer Alain Choquart.
IT STARTS TODAY
Alain Sarde and Frederic Bourboulon present
a Les Films Alain Sarde, Little Bear and TFI Films production
Producers: Alain Sarde, Frederic Bourboulon
Director-screenwriter: Bertrand Tavernier
Screenwriters: Dominique Sampiero, Tiffany Tavernier
Director of photography: Alain Choquart
Music: Louis Sclavis
Sound: Michel Desrois, Gerard Lamps
Art director: Thierry Francois
Costumes: Marpessa Djian
Editors: Sophie Brunet, Sophie Mandonnet
Production manager: Francois Hamel
Color/stereo
Cast:
Daniel: Philippe Torreton
Valeria: Maria Pitarresi
Samia: Nadia Kaci
Mrs. Leinard: Veronique Ataly
Cathy: Nathalie Becue
Inspector: Didier Bezace
The Mayor: Gerard Giroudon
Running time --117 minutes
No MPAA rating...
- 2/22/1999
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
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