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20 April 1983 (France) morePlot:
Three intertwined tales. On the eve of the First World War, Count Forbek starts to build a fantastic castle in the Ardennes forest... more | add synopsisAwards:
2 nominations moreUser Comments:
probably the nadir of Resnais's career moreCast
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Directed by | |||
| Alain Resnais | |||
Writing credits(in alphabetical order) | ||
| Jean Gruault | writer | |
Produced by | |||
| Philippe Dussart | .... | producer | |
Original Music by | |||
| M. Philippe-Gérard | |||
Cinematography by | |||
| Bruno Nuytten | |||
Film Editing by | |||
| Jean-Pierre Besnard | |||
| Albert Jurgenson | |||
Production Design by | |||
| Enki Bilal | |||
| Jacques Saulnier | |||
Costume Design by | |||
| Enki Bilal | |||
| Catherine Leterrier | |||
Production Management | |||
| Jean Lara | .... | production manager | |
Second Unit Director or Assistant Director | |||
| Jean Léon | .... | assistant director | |
| Florence Malraux | .... | assistant director | |
| Guy Pinon | .... | assistant director | |
Sound Department | |||
| Pierre Lenoir | .... | sound | |
Camera and Electrical Department | |||
| Philippe Brun | .... | camera operator | |
| Gérard Rival | .... | grip | |
| Alain Tanguy | .... | electrician | |
Editorial Department | |||
| Jean-Pierre Besnard | .... | assistant editor | |
Music Department | |||
| Cathy Berberian | .... | singing voice | |
| Fabienne Guyon | .... | singing voice: Sabine Azéma | |
Other crew | |||
| Sylvette Baudrot | .... | script supervisor | |
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- Acteurs Auteurs Associés (AAA)
- Artificial Eye (1984) (UK)
- International Spectrafilm (1984) (USA) (subtitled)
- Soprofilms
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Life Is a Bed of Roses (USA)A Vida É um Romance (Brazil) (TV title) (Portugal) [pt]
La vida es una novela (Argentina) (Mexico) [es]
Das Leben ist ein Roman (West Germany) [de]
I zoi einai ena romantzo (Greece) [el]
La vita è un romanzo (Italy) [it]
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Watching the first few moments, you realize it's going to be a parody - and certainly it *is* a parody, but I'm not sure of what (a fairy tale? an opera? a Hollywoodian C-movie? - if there was something like that), and I can assure you it's not worth watching. It's simply a pointless film (cf. a good parody is everything but pointless), with pretentious, shallow speeches of extremely sketchy characters. It's like a commedia dell'arte. Or better, it's like a botched commedia dell'arte. And the score... sung in an intentionally incompetent way (something Greenaway will use much more efficiently), it *is* painful to listen to (unless one wears some sate-of-the-art earplugs, haha). Go for quality movies (e.g. A. Mitta's How Czar Peter the Great Married Off His Moor, 1976) and steer clear of this mistake.