Modern Life ( La Vie moderne )

Modern Life (DVD) (*)

$30.99

Original Title: La Vie moderne
Screened, competed or awarded at:
Other Film Festival Awards

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

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

Running Time:
120 min

Aspect Ratio:
Widescreen (1.85:1)

Special Features:
Cast/Crew Interview(s)
Filmographies
Interactive Menu
Trailer(s)

Movie filmed in 2000 and produced in:
France ( France, Benelux )
Switzerland ( Germany, Central Europe )

Directed By:
Laurence Ferreira Barbosa

Written By:
Laurence Ferreira Barbosa
Bruno Guiblet

Actors:
Isabelle Huppert ..... Claire
Frédéric Pierrot ..... Jacques
Lolita Chammah ..... Marguerite
Juliette Andréa ..... Eva
Jean-Pierre Gos ..... Marguerite's father
Robert Kramer ..... Andy Hellman
Aurélien Recoing ..... Georges
Marc Rioufol ..... Leon
Teo Saavedra ..... Herminio
Jérémie Korenfeld ..... Pierre François
Jacques Spiesser ..... Désormières
Blandine Paulet ..... Sandra
Jean-Baptiste Montagut ..... Handsome neighbor
Cécile Richard ..... Gertrude
Nathalie Nell ..... Annick Renard

Synopsis:

Noted French filmmaker Laurence Ferreira Barbosa directs this loosely-structured triptych about a trio of unconnected people who struggle through the loneliness of their lives. Impetuous 17-year-old Marguerite (Lolita Chammah), who feels cut off from both her family and classmates, passes the time by talking to God. Eventually, she decides to enter a convent. Meanwhile, housewife Claire (Isabelle Hubbert) is frustrated after ten years of childless marriage. While going to visit a fertility expert in Paris, she happens upon an old lover, gets picked up by some guy at a bar and has a bizarre encounter with an America singer (Robert Kramer). Meantime, Jacques (Frederic Pierrot) is divorced, unemployed, and loathed by his daughter. Just as his life looks one long exercise in desperate futility, he meets comely Eva (Juliette Andrea). Suddenly, he transforms himself into a private dick, trying to track down a missing associate.

Three separate, unconnected denizens of Paris and its surroundings go about their hectic, confusing and ultimately normal lives.

This product was added to our catalog on Saturday 12 August, 2006.

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