Cédric Klapisch Collection - 10-DVD Box Set ( Le Péril jeune / Paris / Les Poupées russes / L' Auberge espagnole / Peut-être / Un air de famille / Chacun cherche son chat / Riens du tout / Ni pour, ni contre ) ( Good Old Daze / The Russian Dolls / The Spanish Apartment / Maybe / Family Resemblances / When the Cat's Away / Little Nothings / Not for or Against )

Cédric Klapisch Collection - 10-DVD Box Set (DVD) (*)

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Original Title: Le Péril jeune / Paris / Les Poupées russes / L' Auberge espagnole / Peut-être / Un air de famille / Chacun cherche son chat / Riens du tout / Ni pour, ni contre
Alternate Title: Good Old Daze / The Russian Dolls / The Spanish Apartment / Maybe / Family Resemblances / When the Cat's Away / Little Nothings / Not for or Against
Screened, competed or awarded at:
Berlin International Film Festival
Ceasar Awards
European Film Awards
Montreal World Film Festival
Other Film Festival Awards

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

Product Origin/Format:
France ( PAL/Region 2 )

Running Time:
950 min

Aspect Ratio:
Anamorphic Widescreen (2.35:1)

Special Features:
Alternative Footage
Box Set
Deleted Scenes
Featurette
Filmographies
Interactive Menu
Making Of
Multi-DVD Set
Photo Gallery
Scene Access
Short Film
Storyboards
Trailer(s)

Movie filmed in 1992-2008 and produced in:
France ( France, Benelux )
Spain ( Spain, Portugal )
United Kingdom ( Great Britain, Ireland )

Directed By:
Cedric Klapisch

Written By:
Santiago Amigorena
Alexis Galmot
Cedric Klapisch
Agnès Jaoui
Jean-Pierre Bacri
Jackie Berroyer

Actors:
Romain Duris ..... Tomasi
Vincent Elbaz ..... Alain Chabert
Nicolas Koretzky ..... Maurice 'Momo' Zareba
Julien Lambroschini ..... Bruno
Joachim Lombard ..... Leon
Julie-Anne Roth ..... Marie (as Julie-Anne Rauth)
Hélène de Fougerolles ..... Christine
Élodie Bouchez ..... Sophie
Lisa Faulkner ..... Barbara
Caroline Damiens ..... Moroni
Jacques Marchand ..... English Teacher
Christine Sandre ..... Philosophy Teacher
Nathalie Krebs ..... History and Geography Teacher
François Toumarkine ..... Biology Teacher
Hélène Médigue
Juliette Binoche ..... Élise
Romain Duris ..... Pierre
Fabrice Luchini ..... Roland Verneuil
Albert Dupontel ..... Jean
François Cluzet ..... Philippe Verneuil
Karin Viard ..... La boulangère
Gilles Lellouche ..... Franky
Mélanie Laurent ..... Laetitia
Zinedine Soualem ..... Mourad
Julie Ferrier ..... Caroline
Olivia Bonamy ..... Diane
Maurice Bénichou ..... Le psy
Annelise Hesme ..... Victoire
Audrey Marnay ..... Marjolaine
Xavier Robic ..... Arthur Delamare - le présentateur télé
Romain Duris ..... Xavier Rousseau
Kelly Reilly ..... Wendy
Audrey Tautou ..... Martine
Cécile De France ..... Isabelle
Kevin Bishop ..... William
Evguenya Obraztsova ..... Natacha
Irene Montalà ..... Neus
Gary Love ..... Edward
Lucy Gordon ..... Celia shelburn
Aïssa Maïga ..... Kassia
Martine Demaret ..... Xavier's Mother
Pierre Cassignard ..... Platane
Olivier Saladin ..... Gérard
Pierre Gérald ..... Xavier's Grandfather
Zinedine Soualem ..... Mr. Boubaker
Romain Duris ..... Xavier
Judith Godrèche ..... Anne-Sophie
Cristina Brondo ..... Soledad
Federico D'Anna ..... Alessandro
Barnaby Metschurat ..... Tobias
Christian Pagh ..... Lars
Xavier De Guillebon ..... Jean-Michel
Wladimir Yordanoff ..... Jean-Charles Perrin
Javier Coromina ..... Juan
Iddo Goldberg ..... Alistair
Jean-Paul Belmondo ..... Ako
Romain Duris ..... Arthur
Géraldine Pailhas ..... Lucie
Julie Depardieu ..... Nathalie
Emmanuelle Devos ..... Juliette
Bass Dhem ..... Achille
Léa Drucker ..... Clotilde
Hélène Fillières ..... Rosemonde
Dominique Frot ..... Artémise
Mathieu Genet ..... Ulysse
Olivier Gourmet ..... Jean-Claude
Lise Lamétrie ..... Mafalda
Riton Liebman ..... Mathieu
Marceline Loridan Ivens ..... Madeleine
Olivier Py ..... Green man
Jean-Pierre Bacri ..... Henri
Jean-Pierre Darroussin ..... Denis
Catherine Frot ..... Yolande
Agnès Jaoui ..... Betty
Claire Maurier ..... Madame Ménard - la mère
Wladimir Yordanoff ..... Philippe
Alain Guillo ..... Le Présentateur
Sophie Simon ..... La Mère 1967
Cedric Klapisch ..... Le Père 1967
Antoine Chappey ..... Le Voisin
Chantal Gouard ..... Une amie de la mère
Viviane Ordas ..... Une amie de la mère
Aurélie Remacle ..... Betty 1967
Nicolas Taeb ..... Henri 1967
Ludovic Taeb ..... Philippe 1967
Garance Clavel ..... Chloé
Zinedine Soualem ..... Djamel
Renée Le Calm ..... Madame Renée
Olivier Py ..... Michel
Arapimou ..... Gris Gris, le chat
Rambo ..... Rambo, le chat
Simon Abkarian ..... Carlos
Frédéric Aufray ..... Photographer
Olivier Barny ..... Un ouvrier ébéniste
Jane Bradbury ..... Un mannequin
Joël Brisse ..... Le peintre Bel Canto
Olympe Brugeille ..... Madame Brugeille
Franck Bussi ..... Mec aggressif
Marilyne Canto ..... La femme flic
Aline Chantal ..... Madame Doubrowsky
Fabrice Luchini ..... Lepetit
Daniel Berlioux ..... Jacques Martin
Marc Berman ..... Pizzuti
Olivier Broche ..... Lefèvre
Antoine Chappey ..... François
Jean-Pierre Darroussin ..... Domrémy
Aurélie Guichard ..... Vanessa
Billy Komg ..... Mamadou
Odette Laure ..... Madame Yvonne
Elisabeth Macocco ..... Madame Dujardin
Marc Maury ..... Johnny Bonjour
Pierre-Olivier Mornas ..... Roger (as Pierre Olivier Mornas)
Jean-Michel Martial ..... Hubert (as Jean Michel Martial)
Maïté Nahyr ..... La directrice de coordination
Fred Personne ..... Monsieur Roi
Marie Gillain ..... Caty
Vincent Elbaz ..... Jean
Simon Abkarian ..... Freddy Karparian dit Lecarpe
Dimitri Storoge ..... Loulou
Zinedine Soualem ..... Mouss
Natacha Lindinger ..... Caprice
Jocelyn Lagarrigue ..... Gilles
Pierre-Ange Le Pogam ..... Le directeur du dépôt
Diane Kruger ..... La call-girl
Thierry Levaret ..... Le vigile
Michaël Abiteboul ..... Bernard dit Le King
Robert Plagnol ..... Journaliste Caprice
Camille Natta ..... Liz
Michaël Tissier ..... Anthony Karparian, le fils de Freddy (as Mickaël Tissier)
Didier Menin ..... Concierge Marriott

Synopsis:

***WARNING***Four films don't contain English: L' Auberge espagnole, Peut-être, Un air de famille & Chacun cherche son chat***
Good Old Daze / Le Péril jeune
This film chronicles the reunion of five high school friends who come to witness the birth of a child whose father, a former friend, recently died.
Paris
Love and life pose dilemmas for a handful of friends in the City of Lights in this romantic drama.
Les Poupées russes / The Russian Dolls
Five years after sharing a flat with a group of international students in Barcelona, Xavier, now in Paris, earns a living penning made-for-TV romantic movies and ghost-writing celebrity biographies.
L' Auberge espagnole / The Spanish Apartment
As part of a job that he is promised, Xavier, an economics student in his late twenties, signs on to a European exchange program in order to gain working knowledge of the Spanish language.
Peut-être / Maybe
What if you could step 70 years into the future from a portal in your bathroom?
Un air de famille / Family Resemblances
In this black comedy from France, a family gathers in a tavern, ostensibly to celebrate a birthday, but poking each other's sore spots turns out to be the main order of business.
Chacun cherche son chat / When the Cat's Away
Gentle French comedy that explores the problems and anxieties of contemporary urbanites.
Riens du tout / Little Nothings
Visitors to Paris are forever regaling those back home with outrageous tales of rude or even abusive behavior by shopkeepers, sales attendants, etc.
Ni pour, ni contre / Not for or Against
A not-so-worldly twentysomething gets caught up with some shady Parisians.

Good Old Daze / Le Péril jeune:
A series of flashbacks, revealing a group of young men during their senior year of high school in 1975, unfolds the involving account of four surviving buddies reunited some years later for the birth of a child fathered by their recently deceased friend.

Paris:
Centers on a Parisian who is ill and who wonders whether he is going to die. His condition makes him look with new eyes at all the people he encounters. As he faces death, his life, the life of others and that of the whole city suddenly take on a new significance. Market gardeners, a baker, a social worker, a dancer, an architect, a homeless person, a university professor, a model and a Cameroonian illegal worker--all these people, whose lives are very far apart, are brought together in the city of Paris.

Les Poupées russes / The Russian Dolls:
'Russian Dolls' belongs to a long line of airy French films that induce a pleasant buzz of Euro-envy. As its attractive characters, on the verge of 30, whiz between Paris and London on the Eurostar express and jaunt off to St. Petersburg for a wedding, you wish their American screen counterparts were as comfortable in their skins and as relaxed about sex. These people know how to enjoy themselves; their Hollywood peers find it difficult to stop competing long enough to take a deep breath and drink in the moment. That said, 'Russian Dolls,' written and directed by Cédric Klapisch, has not much on its mind beyond updating the lives of characters some of us already know. These are mostly the same people (played by the same actors) who shared a Barcelona apartment in Mr. Klapsich's 2002 comedy, 'L'Auberge Espagnole.

L' Auberge espagnole / The Spanish Apartment:
A strait-laced French student moves into an apartment in Barcelona with a cast of six other characters from all over Europe. Together, they speak the international language of love and friendship.

Peut-être / Maybe:
Science fiction. Arthur and his girlfriend Lucie are on their way to a Millennium party on New Year's Eve, 1999. When upon arriving they repair to a bathroom to have sex, Arthur's careless attitude annoys Lucie and she leaves. Left alone, Arthur notices sand falling onto his shoulders. When he makes his way via the top floor to daylight, he beholds a fantastic new world - a version of Paris years in the future, in a North African desert-style climate. Arthur is confronted by an old man, Ako, who claims to be his son, conceived on January 1st, 2000. Ako pleads with Arthur to return to his own `world' and impregnate his girlfriend so that Ako and his descendants can actually exist - rather than disappear.

Un air de famille / Family Resemblances:
A reunion at a restaurant/bar becomes the occasion for a seriocomic outburst of family grudges and resentments. The widowed matriarch is at the center of the proceedings, holding court and criticizing her grown-up children for their failures and missteps. Mother's favorite son Phillipe, is a business executive with a slow-witted wife, Yolande, whose birthday is the reason for the gathering. Less favored siblings include Henri, who runs the shabby restaurant inherited by their father, and Betty, a headstrong, single 30-year-old, who is secretly having an affair with the restaurant bartender, Denis.

Chacun cherche son chat / When the Cat's Away:
A lonely young make-up artist, living in a crumbling old suburb of Paris, is distraught when her only friend, her cat, goes missing. In her search for her pet, she gets to know her neighbourhood and its inhabitants - and eventually finds romance.

Riens du tout / Little Nothings:
A French department store manager tries to improve business by adopting American techniques in service to customers and staff management.

Ni pour, ni contre / Not for or Against:
The film tells the story of Caty, a 26-year-old camerawoman whom a group of criminals ask to film their exploits. She accepts their terms and discovers a whole new world in the process.

Good Old Daze / Le Péril jeune:
This French comedy-drama chronicles the reunion of five high school friends who come to witness the birth of a child whose father, a former friend, recently died. The boys graduated in 1975 and now, five years later they have come to a Parisian hospital to await the birth. As they wait, the try to understand the circumstances that caused their friend Tomasi, a formerly happy-go-lucky guy, to become a drug addict and die of an overdose. They also begin to reminisce about their senior year. They talk about everything from their experiences with girls and drugs, to their relationships with teachers and parents. Those times are depicted in detailed flashbacks.

Paris:
Love and life pose dilemmas for a handful of friends in the City of Lights in this romantic drama from French filmmaker Cedric Klapisch. Pierre (Romain Duris) has enjoyed a successful career as a dancer performing in Parisian nightclubs, but when he's diagnosed with a serious heart condition, his doctor warns him that the strain of his work could kill him. Pierre must reinvent his life, and as he ponders his future and his mortality, he turns to his sister, Ãlise (Juliette Binoche), a social worker and single mother, for help. Ãlise is facing some life changes of her own; she's tired of being alone, and has developed an infatuation with Jean (Albert Dupontel), a grocer who sells his wares in the city's open-air market. But Jean is recently divorced and is still preoccupied with his former wife, Caroline (Julie Ferrier). Pierre also finds himself falling from afar for a lovely college student named Laetitia (Melanie Laurent), but he has a rival for her affections in Roland (Fabrice Luchini), one of her professors, who is considerably older than her.

Les Poupées russes / The Russian Dolls:
Sequel to L'AUBERGE ESPAGNOLE (POT LUCK). Five years after sharing a flat with a group of international students in Barcelona, Xavier, now in Paris, earns a living penning made-for-TV romantic movies and ghost-writing celebrity biogra- phies. His sentimental life is chaotic, rhythmed by one-night stands and unfinished romances. A trip to Russia may well reconcile him with love.

L' Auberge espagnole / The Spanish Apartment:
As part of a job that he is promised, Xavier, an economics student in his late twenties, signs on to a European exchange program in order to gain working knowledge of the Spanish language. Promising that they'll remain close, he says farewell to his loving girlfriend, then heads to Barcelona. Following his arrival, Xavier is soon thrust into a cultural melting pot when he moves into an apartment full of international students. An Italian, an English girl, a boy from Denmark, a young woman from Belgium, a German and a girl from Andalusia all join him in a series of adventures that serve as an initiation to life.

Peut-être / Maybe:
What if you could step 70 years into the future from a portal in your bathroom? French director Cedric Klapisch asks this question and many others in this oddball sci-fi flick. The film opens at a wild Buck Rogers-themed New Year's Eve party on December 31, 1999. After smoking a requist amount of drugs, 25-year-old Arthur (Romain Duris) and his girlfriend Lucie get in the millennial spirit with a spontaneous romp in the bathroom. She is aching to have a kid, though Arthur is more ambivalent on the matter, and at the critical moment, he withdraws. Later, he uses that same bathroom for its intended purpose, and he discovers a ceiling panel that transports him to the sun drenched Paris of the 21st century, which could easily be mistaken for northern Africa. Much of the city looks like a Moroccan souk set amid the Sahara. Only the occasional Mansart roof and the now much shorter Eiffel Tower poking out of the sand reminds Arthur that he is indeed in Paris. He soon meets a white-haired old man named Ako (played by New Wave veteran Jean-Paul Belmondo) who informs him that he his Arthur's son. Ako and his offspring beseech the still vacillating Arthur to impregnate Lucie ASAP so that they may exist.

Un air de famille / Family Resemblances:
In this black comedy from France, a family gathers in a tavern, ostensibly to celebrate a birthday, but poking each other's sore spots turns out to be the main order of business. Henri (Jean-Pierre Bacri) runs a saloon that he inherited from his father called 'The Sleepy Dad,' and in the near-empty bar, he plays host to several members of the family as they mark the 35th birthday of his sister-in-law, Yolande (Catherine Frot). Henri's sister, Betty (Agnès Jaoui), is 30, single, and not very happy about it; his brother (and Yolande's husband), Phillipe (Vladimir Yordanoff), runs a growing software company; Mother (Claire Maurier) is the siblings' strong-willed matriarch; and Henri's dog is on hand, whom someone describes as 'like a rug, but alive.' It's not been a good day for most of them: Phillipe is convinced that his business will go out the window as a result of the ugly tie that he wore on television; Betty is depressed about the sad state of her current relationship; Henri has just learned that his wife is leaving him; and Mother is tossing caustic barbs at everyone left and right. Henri's bartender Denis (Jean-Pierre Darroussin) is the one neutral party on hand, and he provides the voice of reason in the midst of the bickering.

Chacun cherche son chat / When the Cat's Away:
When the Cat's Away is a gentle French comedy that explores the problems and anxieties of contemporary urbanites. When Chloe (Garance Clavel), a young Parisian, decides to take a long-overdue vacation, she has to find someone to look after Gris-Gris, her beloved cat. Everyone, including her gay male roommate, refuses to help her, but she finally makes an arrangement with the elderly Madame Renée (Renée Le Calm), who often watches over other peoples' cats and dogs. However, when Chloe comes back, Madame Renée tells her that unfortunately the cat has been lost, and the unlucky owner goes on a search for her dear animal friend. While looking for the cat, she meets many colorful characters who populate the neighborhood.

Riens du tout / Little Nothings:
Visitors to Paris are forever regaling those back home with outrageous tales of rude or even abusive behavior by shopkeepers, sales attendants, and (in general) just about anyone whose business puts them in contact with the public. Even ordinary Parisians seem prone to this sort of behavior. On the one hand, it is easy to sympathise with the aggrieved tourist; on the other, what if your home were the object of interest for uninterrupted hordes of barely civilized strangers, poking and prying into its every nook and cranny? In this comedy, which was remarkably popular in France (and Paris!), an American-trained store manager (Fabrice Luchini) attempts to inculcate his staff with such unlikely notions as 'service' and 'the customer is always right,' using the latest corporate training techniques. Some of these techniques are humorous in themselves, like the 'trust' exercises which became so popular a few years back, or the technique of 'bonding' in natural situations, joining together to win challenge matches, etc. The poor idealistic manager who attempts to accomplish this radical transformation in his staff is ill prepared for his program's odd result: the staff now has considerable ésprit de corps, but of a quite different kind than he had envisioned.

Ni pour, ni contre / Not for or Against:
A not-so-worldly twentysomething gets caught up with some shady Parisians in director Cedric Klapisch's 2003 crime comedy-drama Not for or Against. Wallflower camerawoman Caty (Marie Gillain) is three years into her career and residency in the French capital with little to show for it in the friend category, never mind the fact she is hopelessly single. While on the job filming an interview with a prostitute, Caty gets a tip from the hooker for a quick and profitable money-making possibility. Following up on the lead, Caty meets the handsome Jean (Vincent Elbaz) who offers to pay her to film him while he robs a store. After some perfunctory soul-searching, Caty impetuously decides to take the offer. This start in crime leads her into Jean's gang of criminals, which she rather quickly becomes a member of. As the thieves tend to spend their loot about as quickly as they accumulate it, they begin planning an enormous caper that will enable them to live more comfortably -- if they manage to survive its undertaking.

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