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La vie est un roman (1983)
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Jean Gruault (writer)
Release Date:
20 April 1983 (France)
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Plot:
Three intertwined tales. On the eve of the First World War, Count Forbek starts to build a fantastic castle in the Ardennes forest...
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2 nominations
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Another difficult but worthwhile Resnais film
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Directed by | |||
| Alain Resnais | |||
Writing credits(in alphabetical order) | ||
| Jean Gruault | writer | |
Produced by | |||
| Philippe Dussart | .... | producer | |
Original Music by | |||
| M. Philippe-Gérard | |||
Cinematography by | |||
| Bruno Nuytten | |||
Film Editing by | |||
| Jean-Pierre Besnard | |||
| Albert Jurgenson | |||
Production Design by | |||
| Enki Bilal | |||
| Jacques Saulnier | |||
Costume Design by | |||
| Enki Bilal | |||
| Catherine Leterrier | |||
Production Management | |||
| Jean Lara | .... | production manager | |
Second Unit Director or Assistant Director | |||
| Jean Léon | .... | assistant director | |
| Florence Malraux | .... | assistant director | |
| Guy Pinon | .... | assistant director | |
Sound Department | |||
| Pierre Lenoir | .... | sound | |
Camera and Electrical Department | |||
| Philippe Brun | .... | camera operator | |
| Gérard Rival | .... | grip | |
| Alain Tanguy | .... | electrician | |
Editorial Department | |||
| Jean-Pierre Besnard | .... | assistant editor | |
Music Department | |||
| Cathy Berberian | .... | singing voice | |
| Fabienne Guyon | .... | singing voice: Sabine Azéma | |
Other crew | |||
| Sylvette Baudrot | .... | script supervisor | |
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- Acteurs Auteurs Associés (AAA)
- Artificial Eye (1984) (UK)
- International Spectrafilm (1984) (USA) (subtitled)
- Soprofilms
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Life Is a Bed of Roses (USA)
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110 min | Argentina:111 min
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While old fashioned Kodak film was used for the 1910s scenes and legendary period, modern Fuji film was shot for the 1982 storyline, opposing dreamlike effects of the former to realism of the latter.
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First off, the commonly accepted translation of the title seems to be bad-It should more properly be called Life is a Fairy Tale. This film explores two main themes. The first theme involves the idea that people never really grow up-they continue to be self centered children with unrealistic views of the world. The other theme is that no individual can be happy unless some other individual is miserable. These themes are explored in typical Resnais fashion-which is to say, in a way that is in turns brilliant and confusing. Naturally, the narrative is not straightforward, rather, it is broken into two main threads and a third crucial but brief one.
The most bizarre (and off putting) thing about this film is the singing-occasionally, a character will suddenly begin singing instead of talking. The other characters tend to respond with normal dialogue as if nothing unusual was going on. This lends a sort of surreal feeling to the already odd mood of the film. According to the special features of the DVD of this, Resnais feels that it is easier to move the story along if his characters sing instead of conversing.
I've only seen this film once, but I feel that I should see it again soon. Resnais films always reward multiple viewings and I doubt this is the exception.