L'un reste, l'autre part (2005)

User Rating:

5.7/10   

Director:

Claude Berri

Writers:

Claude Berri (writer)
Philippe Ratton (participation)

Release Date:

12 January 2005 (Belgium)

Genre:

Comedy | Drama

Plot Keywords:

African | Quadriplegic | Motorcycle Accident | Sister In Law | Art

Cast

Charlotte Gainsbourg	...	Judith
Daniel Auteuil	...	Daniel
Nathalie Baye	...	Fanny
Pierre Arditi	...	Alain
Miou-Miou	...	Anne-Marie
Laure Duthilleul	...	Isabelle
Aïssa Maïga	...	Farida
Noémie Lvovsky	...	Nicole
Nicolas Lebovici	...	Julien
Nicolas Choyé	...	Cédric
Laurent Spielvogel	...	Hubert
Mélanie Sitbon	...	Émilie
Michaël Youn	...	Michaël Youn
Marie-Christine Adam	...	Une invitée au cocktail
rest of cast listed alphabetically:
Juliette Arnaud
Jean-Claude Bolle-Reddat	...	L'agent immobilier
François Borysse
Dalida	...	Herself on TV (archive footage)
Bass Dhem
Jessica Goldman	...	Valerie
Sylvie Herbert	...	La mère de Valérie
Sylvie Huguel
Magalie Madison	...	Stéphanie
Abdel Soufi

Also Known As:

One Stays, One Leaves (Australia) (DVD title)
One Stays, the Other Leaves (International: English title)

Runtime:

France:109 min

Country:

France

Language:

French

Color:

Color

Aspect Ratio:

2.35 : 1

Sound Mix:

Dolby

Certification:

Australia:MA | Switzerland:10 (canton of Geneva) | Switzerland:10 (canton of Vaud) | France:U

Filming Locations:

Rue des Beaux-Arts, Paris 6, Paris, France

Company:

Hirsch

Soundtrack:

L'un part... l'autre reste

All alone and unhappy

The film was shown in the Istanbul Film Festival 2006. As I'm a fan of French movies I was thrilled to see Claude Berri's 2005 film. The classical plot is elaborately woven but its not including any real suspense or surprise. The most prominent feature which is shared by each character is their loneliness and lack of true happiness or deep feeling for anything or anyone. The individualism so characteristic of the postmodern world keeps them reserved, self-centered, self-absorbed - that is selfish and uncaring. The strange thing is, this is not considered abnormal because it's shared by everyone. Besides the one who stays is not so very different from the one who stays and the reasons of their different choices are not revealed to us. So we don't feel relieved or disturbed that either one "reste or part".Whatsoever the great actors and actresses can be an excuse to see the film.