Actrices ( Actresses )

Actrices (DVD) (*)

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Original Title: Actresses
Screened, competed or awarded at:
Cannes Film Festival
Ceasar Awards
Other Film Festival Awards

Language Selections:
English ( Subtitles )
French ( Dolby Digital 2.0 )
French ( Dolby Digital 5.1 )
German ( Dolby Digital 2.0 )
German ( Dolby Digital 5.1 )
German ( Subtitles )

Product Origin/Format:
Germany ( PAL/Region 0 )

Running Time:
107 min

Aspect Ratio:
Widescreen (1.85:1)

Special Features:
Deleted Scenes
Interactive Menu
Making Of
Scene Access
Trailer(s)
Booklet

Movie filmed in 2007 and produced in:
France ( France, Benelux )

Directed By:
Valeria Bruni Tedeschi

Written By:
Valeria Bruni Tedeschi
Noémie Lvovsky

Actors:
Valeria Bruni Tedeschi ..... Marcelline
Noémie Lvovsky ..... Nathalie
Louis Garrel ..... Éric
Mathieu Amalric ..... Denis
Marysa Borini ..... La mère (as Marisa Borini)
Valeria Golino ..... Natalia Petrovna
Maurice Garrel ..... Le père
Bernard Nissile ..... Jean-Paul
Olivier Rabourdin ..... Marc
Laetitia Spigarelli ..... Juliette
Gilles Cohen ..... Jean-Luc, le régisseur
Marie Rivière ..... La costumière
Franck Demules ..... Le barman (as Frank Demules)
Souzan Chirazi ..... La gynécologue (as Souz Chirazi)
Anne Barry ..... La dame dans la rue

Synopsis:

Actress-cum-director Valeria Bruni-Tedeschi's sophomore feature, the comedy-drama Les Actrices (Le reve de la nuit d'avant), follows the trials and travails of Marcelline (Tedeschi), a tense and jittery stage thesp whose personal and professional life threaten to fall into pieces simultaneously. On a personal level, Marcelline hits the midpoint of her life, hears her biological clock ticking, and longs desperately for a child. At work, Marcelline's inability to find the core of her character, Natalia Petrovna, in a production of Turgenev's A Month in the Country only causes her emotional tension to double. In time, she regresses into such a basket case that she can barely respond to the stage director's query about whether she is right or left-handed. Marcelline's natty and overanxious mother (Marisa Borini, Tedeschi's mother in real life) weighs heavily on her as well, pressuring her constantly about the need to find an appropriate suitor before time runs out; instead, Marcelline finds herself drawn helplessly to Eric (Louis Garrel) a sexy young actor in the production - who, without her knowledge, nurtures reciprocal affections. This parallels the events that befall Petrovna in Turgenev's play, and indeed, at one point the spirit of Petrovna (Valeria Golino) appears to Marcelline for much-needed counsel. Meanwhile, as Marcelline weathers her own personal crises, one of her friends, Nathalie (Noemie Lvovsky) - the assistant to the play's director - struggles with her offstage lack of fulfillment as a wife and mother.

Marceline, a theatre actress, is forty and still single and childless. She begins rehearsals for Turgenevs play "A month in the country" where Marceline is about to become Natalia Petrovna. The writer, fascinated by the actress talent, promises he'll make her a princess on stage but things don't go to plan...

Nearly forty and still childless, actress Marcelline finds herself haunted by her current role - that of Natalia Petrovna, heroine of Turgenev's 'A Month in the Country'.

This product was added to our catalog on Wednesday 18 March, 2009.

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