Un amour de sorcière (1997)

User Rating:

4.8/10   

Director:

René Manzor

Writer:

René Manzor (writer)

Release Date:

19 March 1997 (France)

Genre:

Comedy | Fantasy | Romance

Plot:

Michael Firch is very skilled in computers and he goes to Paris to meet very important persons to discuss a contract...

Plot Keywords:

Godfather | Paris | Heir | Sorcerer | Witchcraft

Cast

Vanessa Paradis	...	Morgane
Gil Bellows	...	Michael
Jeanne Moreau	...	Eglantine
Jean Reno	...	Molok
Dabney Coleman	...	Joel
rest of cast listed alphabetically:
Barnaby Apps	...	Policeman Airport
Katrine Boorman	...	Rita
Paula Dehelly	...	Baby Sitter
Agathe de La Boulaye	...	The Nurse
Pietro De Silva	...	Client italian
Malcolm Dixon	...	Merlin
Patrick Floersheim	...	Policeman Airport
Clément Harari	...	Grocer
Nicholas Hawtrey	...	Thompson
Eléonore Hirt	...	Chloé
Bruce Johnson	...	Punk
Fantin Lalanne	...	Arthur
Jim Adhi Limas	...	N'Guyen
Volker Marek	...	Bauer
Gilbert Melki	...	Detective 2
Daniel Milgram	...	Taxi Driver
Fidèle Papalia	...	Policeman
Riccardo Parisio Perrotti	...	Waiter
Rémy Roubakha	...	Detective 1
Benjamin Sacks	...	Kid laboratory
Jean-Paul Solal	...	Doctor
Louise Vincent	...	Fleur
Jesse Joe Walsh	...	Taxi Driver in New York

Also Known As:

Witch Way Love

Runtime:

102 min

Country:

France

Language:

French

Color:

Color

Aspect Ratio:

2.35 : 1

Certification:

Iceland:12 | Germany:12

Filming Locations:

New York, USA

Company:

Urania Film

Trivia:

Was filmed twice (once in French and once in English)

Soundtrack:

Old MacDonald Had A Farm

Voices in French, lips in English

Watching this film in French, with the French dialogs, was a little disconcerting as the dialog obviously did not match the lips. This confirms the trivia above, that the film was recorded in both English and French. My guess, with the American actors in the film, is that the filming was done in English and then dubbed over with the French dialog. Yet this must have been done by the original French actors, as the voices for Jean Reno, Vanessa Paradis, and Jeanne Moreau are correct, i.e., they match their other films. In the French version, Americans such as Dabney Coleman are dubbed and the voices are not their own. Bottom line, as an Anglophone watching the film in French, you don't have the clues of the lips matching the voices to help you in understanding the words. Otherwise, though, the dialog is relatively clear, and not as difficult or as full of slang as some crime flicks I have seen.