Rien à faire (1999)

Note des utilisateurs:

6.5/10   

Réalisateur:

Marion Vernoux

Writers:

Santiago Amigorena (writer)
Gaëlle Macé (writer)
(suite)

Release Date:

1 décembre 1999 (France)

Genre:

Drame | Romance

Plot:

An executive and a dowdy working-class woman, both unemployed, married and parents meet at a supermarket. They become friends but find it hard to accept that they may be in love with each other. |

Plot Keywords:

Love | Friend | Supermarket | Friendship | Infidelity

Awards:

2 wins & 1 nomination

Avis des utilisateurs:

Sad but true, this is everyday life turned chaotic.

Ensemble

Valeria Bruni Tedeschi	...	Marie
Patrick Dell'Isola	...	Pierre
Sergi López	...	Luis
Florence Thomassin	...	Sophie
Kelly Hornoy	...	Julie
Marion des Fachelles	...	Alice
Jérémy Bourgois	...	Luis
Chloé Mons	...	Catherine
Alexandre Carrière	...	Hervé
Farida Rahouadj	...	Marie, the neighbour
Josette Hemsen	...	Mireille
Philippe Peltier	...	Robert
Frédérique Hazard	...	Nicole
Jo Hochain	...	Geneviéve
Sarah Hamoud	...	Colleague in canteen
Mathilde Braure	...	Colleague in canteen
Marianne Wolfson	...	Colleague in canteen
Pierre-Louis Lanier	...	Dominique
Rachid Bouali	...	Canteen counterman
Annette Lowcay	...	Cashier
Alexandre Jouglet	...	ANPE employee
Witold Heretynski	...	Jojo
Alain Rozanès	...	Mimmo
Marco Cherki	...	Antoine
Antoine Mathieu	...	Martineau
Dodine Herry	...	DRH woman
Eric Caravaca	...	Young man on bus
Frédéric Martin	...	Announcer on radio
Daniel Morin	...	Newsflash / weather presenter on radio
Miguel Muniz	...	Clairvoyant on radio
Frédérique Ruvez	...	Mother on radio drama

Réalisé par
Marion Vernoux

Scénaristes (in alphabetical order)
Santiago Amigorena		writer
Gaëlle Macé		writer
Marc Syrigas		writer
Marion Vernoux		writer

Produit par
Alain Rozanès	....	executive producer
Pascal Verroust	....	producer

Musique originale
Alexandre Desplat

Image
Dominique Colin

Montage
Jennifer Augé

Distribution des rôles
Frédérique Giess
Bruno Levy
Emma Skowronek

Création des décors
Emmanuelle Duplay
Philippe van Herwijnen

Création des costumes
Marie Vernoux

Maquillage
Rachel Benaich	....	hair stylist: Valeria Bruni Tedeschi (as Rachel Benaïch)
Caroline Philiponnat	....	hair stylist
Caroline Philiponnat	....	makeup artist

Directeur de production
Jacques Attia	....	production manager
Kader Djedra	....	unit production manager
Gérard Royère	....	unit manager

Assistant réalisateur
Frédérique Giess	....	assistant director
Florence Illouz	....	assistant director
Ariel Sctrick	....	first assistant director

Art Department
Philippe van Herwijnen	....	assistant art director

Technicien du son
Eric Armbruster	....	dialog editor
Michel Casang	....	sound
Camille Cotte Miller	....	sound editor
Dominique Gaborieau	....	sound mixer
Vincent Goujon	....	boom operator
Marie Guesnier	....	sound
Jacques Lévy	....	post-synchronisation
Philippe Penot	....	sound effects editor
Laurent Poirier	....	sound
Jean-François Schenegg	....	boom operator
Isabelle Tat	....	assistant post-synchronization
Nathalie Vidal	....	assistant sound mixer

Cascadeur
Michel Julienne	....	stunts

Camera and Electrical Department
Olivier Berquet	....	electrician
Eric Bruyer	....	electrician
Michel Dechaud	....	grip
Bertrand Etienne	....	assistant camera
Bernard Fau	....	still photographer
Olivier Marrel	....	grip
Galatae Politis	....	assistant camera (as Galatée Politis)
Marco Spannuet	....	electrician
Mathieu Szpiro	....	electrician
Bernard Wuthrich	....	Steadicam operator

Editorial Department
Magali Debrabandére	....	assistant editor
Isabelle Julien	....	color timer
Denis Lardat	....	assistant editor

Music Department
Alexandre Desplat	....	conductor
Edouard Dubois	....	music consultant
John Timperley	....	music mixer

Divers
Jean-Jacques Boulben	....	production administrator
Marie-Christine Damiens	....	press attache
Nathalie Delvigne	....	production secretary
Nathalie Geoffroy	....	production assistant
Sophie Le Tallec	....	script supervisor
Karina Megdiche	....	production administrator
Oumar Sakho	....	production administrator

Production Companies

• ADR Productions
• Canal+
• Centre National de la Cinématographie (CNC)
• Cofimage 10 (participation)

Distributors

• Angel Films (Scandinavia)
• C-Films
• Primer Plano Film Group Video (2002) (Argentina) (VHS)
• Primer Plano Film Group (2002) (Argentina) (theatrical)
• Progrès Films S.A. (Belgium)
• Pyramide Distribution (France)
• Wise Policy (2006) (Japan) (all media)

Other Companies

• Eclair  film lab
• Ercidan  titles
• Horizon Mars  editing
• S.I.S.  sound studio
• TSF  grip equipment

Autre(s) titre(s):

Empty Days (USA)

Durée:

105 min

Pays:

France

Langue:

Français

Couleur:

Couleur

Aspect Ratio:

2.35 : 1

Son:

Dolby Digital

Classification:

Argentina:13 | France:U | Sweden:Btl | Switzerland:16 (canton of Geneva) | Switzerland:16 (canton of Vaud) | UK:12

Company:

ADR Productions

Soundtrack:

La Vie Est si Belle

Sad but true, this is everyday life turned chaotic.

The French, realistically-shot 1999 film "Rien à Faire" was broadcast on Norwegian television some weeks ago, and being a huge fan of French cinema I watched the film starring Valeria Bruni Tedeschi and Patrick Dell' Isola. The leads performed very well, especially Tedeschi as the subdued, insecure Marie-Do. In fact, the film ultimately comes down to the acting, because director Vernoux to some degree fails to keep up interest throughout the (appr.) ninety minutes.

As a study of distinction in French society, though, this film has some relevance to the sociology of Pierre Bourdieu. In the beginning of the film, Marie-Do and her family's tastes in food and wine are compared with those of Pierre (Dell' Isola), as the two meet randomly in a Supermarket. Pierre is the middle-class handsome man who meet a working-class woman without confidence. After a while, though, we learn that Marie-Do and Pierre share a common fate: They are both unemployed. They start hanging out during their empty days (a good English title!), and the viewers just wonder when the anticipated affair will set off. Although they are very different, they find things to talk about and develop a good friendship, before they begin having sex and it all falls apart. Marie is given much attention by Pierre, and as her husband is more concerned with union work and "the revolution" than with even seeing her for who she is, it it not so strange that she wants to have an affair. She is sadly ignored in her family life, and the affair only supplies her with more sympathy. For Pierre, though, the sympathy decreases as we learn he has been married before, and was unfaithful with his previous wife as well.

This is the type of film that cannot end well for both, and that is great, because it would never have worked out in real life, either. So I do not find the depressing theme disturbing, in fact it is the best part of the film, along with the acting. But it is at times unfocused and I feel it also is at times a bit misanthropic. But that might be my viewpoint, and not others'.