Le premier jour du reste de ta vie (2008)

Note des utilisateurs:

7.7/10   

Réalisateur:

Rémi Bezançon

Scénariste:

Rémi Bezançon (writer)

Release Date:

23 juillet 2008 (France)

Genre:

Drame

Plot:

A sprawling drama centered around five keys days in a family's life. |

Plot Keywords:

Family Life | Cigarette Smoking | Hospital | Dog | Diary

Awards:

4 wins & 6 nominations

Avis des utilisateurs:

The script is you and me, boy. No-one knows you better than family.

Ensemble

Jacques Gamblin	...	Robert Duval
Zabou Breitman	...	Marie-Jeanne Duval
Déborah François	...	Fleur Duval
Marc-André Grondin	...	Raphaël Duval
Pio Marmaï	...	Albert Duval
Roger Dumas	...	Pierre
Cécile Cassel	...	Prune
Stanley Weber	...	Éric
Sarah Cohen-Hadria	...	Clara
Camille De Pazzis	...	Moïra
Aymeric Cormerais	...	Sacha
Jean-Jacques Vanier	...	Mathias Moreau
Philippe Lefebvre	...	Philippe
François-Xavier Demaison	...	Le docteur Marcaurel
Gilles Lellouche	...	Le rasta blanc
Françoise Brion	...	La maîtresse du chien
Nathalie Grandhomme	...	La mère de Sacha (as Nathalie Grand'Homme)
Jérôme Chappatte	...	Le père de Sacha (as Jérôme Chapatte)
Ophélie Koering	...	La prof de biolo
Lyes Salem	...	Le type saoul qui veut du Abba
Laurent Besançon	...	Le maire (as Laurent Bezançon)
Sinclair	...	Angus Young (as Mathieu Blanc-Francard)
Jean-Louis Frémont	...	L'organisateur du concert
Romain Lesaffre	...	Un air-guitariste
Benoît Bgr	...	Un air-guitariste
Lewis René	...	Ciscos
Valentin Barniske	...	Big Dav
Sebastien Lemenez De Kerdelleau	...	Bonnetman
Camille Mardery	...	Le jeune homme du répondeur (voice)
Julien Israël	...	Journaliste reportage Bill Clinton (voice)
Nina Rodriguez	...	Fleur 10 ans
Chloé Ageorges	...	Fleur enfant
Loïs Couvreur	...	Fleur enfant
Simon Cohen	...	Albert 12 ans
Vincent Sgonamillo	...	Albert enfant (as Vincent Scognamillo)
Gabriel Melot	...	Albert enfant
Raphaël Bouvet	...	Raphaël 10 ans
Ange Fontanaud	...	Raphaël enfant
Luigi Rigoulot	...	Raphaël enfant
Océane Loison	...	Clara enfant

Réalisé par
Rémi Bezançon

Scénaristes (in alphabetical order)
Rémi Bezançon		writer

Produit par
Eric Altmeyer	....	producer
Nicolas Altmeyer	....	producer

Musique originale
Sinclair

Image
Antoine Monod

Montage
Sophie Reine

Décorateur de plateau
Jimena Esteve

Directeur de production
Aurélia Bono	....	assistant unit manager
Damien Gailliardot	....	assistant unit manager
Thierry Muscat	....	production manager

Art Department
Gilles Graziano	....	computer graphics designer
Cyril Père	....	property master

Technicien du son
Laurent Charbonnier	....	boom operator
Emmanuel Croset	....	sound
Anne Gibourg	....	dialogue editor
Damien Guillaume	....	assistant sound editor
Eddy Laurent	....	sound
Hubert Teissedre	....	foley recording engineer
Hubert Teissedre	....	post sync recording engineer
Olivier Walczak	....	supervising sound editor

Visual Effects
Laurent Brett	....	title designer
Sebastien Gombeaud-Saintonge	....	Flame artist: Mac Guff Ligne, Paris

Camera and Electrical Department
Andy Achard	....	grip
Loïc Bouladjat	....	electrician
Pierre-Louis de Stefano	....	grip
Nicolas Dollander	....	Steadicam operator
Sébastien Fanchault	....	grip
Renaud Garnier	....	electrician
Marine Goujet	....	camera trainee
Emilie de la Hosseraye	....	still photographer
Natacha Lee	....	first assistant camera
Stella Libert	....	second assistant camera
Adrien Maillard	....	electrician
Guillaume Noël	....	grip
Laurent Usse	....	key grip

Costume and Wardrobe Department
Claire Lacaze	....	costumer

Editorial Department
Claire Fieschi	....	assistant editor
Nassim Gordji Tehrani	....	assistant editor
Frederic Jupin	....	digital conformation
Philippe Reinaudo	....	digital intermediate technical director

Production Companies

• Mandarin Films (as Mandarin Cinéma)
• Studio Canal (co-production)
• France 2 Cinéma (co-production)
• Canal+ (participation)
• TPS Star (participation)
• France 2 (FR2) (participation)

Distributors

• Atlantic Film (2009) (Sweden) (DVD)
• Cinéart (2009) (Netherlands) (theatrical)
• Kinowelt Filmverleih (2008) (Austria) (all media)
• Kinowelt Filmverleih (2008) (Germany) (all media)
• Kinowelt Hungary (2008) (Hungary) (all media)
• Metrodome Distribution (2008) (UK) (all media)
• Odeon (2009) (Greece) (all media)
• Studio Canal (2008) (France) (theatrical)

Autre(s) titre(s):

The First Day of the Rest of Your Life (International: English title)

Durée:

114 min

Pays:

France

Langue:

Français

Couleur:

Couleur

Aspect Ratio:

2.35 : 1

Son:

Dolby Digital | DTS

Classification:

Switzerland:14 (canton of Vaud) | Switzerland:14 (canton of Geneva) | Netherlands:6

Company:

Mandarin Films

Movie Connections:

Features The Magnificent Seven (1960)

The script is you and me, boy. No-one knows you better than family.

Can you go back in your memory and find a key day that was the start of your life as you know it now? Who were the people around you then? What was your favourite song? Was there maybe a special piece of clothing that brings memories flooding back with a smile? What about the food you loved those days? Iconic details. Where are they burned in your brain like a hit song, a movie masterpiece, an unstoppable feeling. When did your life first explode? Somewhere those images are a picture of who you are.

Maybe it was getting married. Your first child. Leaving home. Passing your driving test. Getting your Amex Gold. Or falling in love. Moving house. Losing your virginity. Starting university. Finding religion. Getting stoned. Discovering you were someone else all along. Take five people. Take five days. Define the tingles at either end of their spines. Who they are to themselves. To each other. The family in which they are all, somehow, related.

The First Day of the Rest of Your Life might not be Magnolia or even American Beauty, but it's damn good fun. This is thumpingly enjoyable entertainment, even with (dare I mention them?) 'subtitles.' In less than two hours, you will feel that you've known Mum and Dad, eldest son Albert, grungy sister Fleur, romantic bro' Raphael all your life. Cos now you know theirs.

Blood ties and facts are only one of the ways we relate. Usually the really important bits are a single moment, incident or word. Bits that affect everything else. Bits that define people to you in ways words can't. Intimacies or misunderstandings. Hard decisions taken when you disagree with those you love.

Powered by a wonderfully cross-Channel soundtrack, The First Day of the Rest of Your Life is fast and funny. And never flippant. A film for intelligent teenagers who still like to get wasted. For parents struggling to bond. For those in relationships and those struggling to connect. It's not often I feel I can recommend a film to nearly everyone I know (barring subtitles allegies). But I'll stick my neck out and say this is one.

It's a symphonic comedy. Of finding yourself alone in the midst of those who love you. Taking pride in yourself even if no-one remembers. Of finally getting through to someone. It could almost be the thinking feelgood film of the year if it wasn't in French (maybe they'll dub it for America??) To get such a complex mix right is masterpiece of modern editing. But the filmmakers have also been astutely conscious of the need to define key experiences in terms audiences can relate to rather than just the way they are experienced by the characters. A love of grunge and praying at Jim Morrison's grave, for instance, does not translate into inflicting Nirvana and the Doors on us. Rather, music is used in classic style to communicate feelings.

Or Bowie: Time - He's waiting in the wings . . .

His script is you and me, boy There are plenty of senseless things in the First Day of the Rest of Your Life. Believe me – air guitar has never looked so cool. But there are enough really cool, heart-warming moments to make it more than worth your ticket price. It doesn't hit the intellectual self-awareness heights about dysfunctional families that it is capable of – life, death, trust and infidelity, burying your dog, nicotine patches, feng shui, confiscated joints, premature ejaculation and facelifts – none of this matters and yet it does. And as polished all-round entertainment, this film is fairly hard to beat. If you disagree, maybe be you're taking life too seriously and not seriously enough. Sometimes it's hard (as every film critic knows). To just stop analysing long enough to smell the grass. In literary terms, it amounts to Mrs Dalloway buying the flowers herself.