Fais-moi plaisir! (2009)

Director:

Emmanuel Mouret

Writer:

Emmanuel Mouret (screenplay)

Release Date:

24 June 2009 (Belgium)

Genre:

Comedy

Plot Keywords:

Daughter Of The President | Lost Car Keys | Pet Snake | Seduction | Flashback

Cast

Emmanuel Mouret	...	Jean-Jacques
Judith Godrèche	...	Elisabeth
Déborah François	...	Aneth
Frédérique Bel	...	Ariane
Jacques Weber	...	Le père d'Elisabeth
Dany Brillant	...	Rudolph
Mikaël Gaudin	...	Grégoire (as Mikaël Gaudin-Lech)
Frédéric Epaud	...	Le séducteur (as Fred Epaud)
Frédéric Niedermayer	...	Jean-Paul
Karine Ventalon	...	La femme du train
Olivier Galfione	...	Thomas
Jean-François Fagour	...	Le vigile
Yongsou Cho	...	L'ambassadeur (as Young Soo Cho)
Akihiko Nishida	...	Le ministre des Affaires Etrangères (as Akihiro Nishida)
Philippe Sol	...	Franck
Teresa Ovídio	...	Invitée canapé
Zara Prassinot	...	Soeur Aneth 1
Laura Boujenah	...	Soeur Aneth 2
Audrey DeWilder	...	Soeur Aneth 3 (as Audrey Dewilder)
Juliet Lemonnier	...	Soeur Aneth 4
Hélène Milano	...	La policière
Aurélie Bouix	...	Marianne

Directed by
Emmanuel Mouret

Writing credits (in alphabetical order)
Emmanuel Mouret		screenplay

Produced by
Philippe Martin	....	co-producer
Frédéric Niedermayer	....	producer

Original Music by
David Hadjadj

Cinematography by
Laurent Desmet

Film Editing by
Martial Salomon

Casting by
Aurélie Bouix
Asako Furukata

Production Design by
David Faivre

Costume Design by
Marie-Laure Pinsard

Makeup Department
François André	....	hairstylist: Jacques Weber
Olivia Carron	....	makeup artist
Sylvy Ferrus	....	key makeup artist
Rachel Levieux	....	key hair stylist

Production Management
Audrey Amann	....	unit manager
Yann Aïm	....	trainee unit manager
Aurélia De Sambi	....	assistant unit manager
Benoît De Sambi	....	trainee unit manager
Thomas de Sambi	....	assistant unit manager
Tania El Khoury	....	post-production supervisor
Fanny Gauchery	....	unit production manager
Gaëtane Josse	....	production manager
Philippe Le Forestier	....	trainee unit manager
Mahdi Luizza	....	trainee unit manager
Adrien Mendoza	....	trainee unit manager
Clara Tran Dinh	....	assistant unit manager
Thierry Trion	....	assistant unit manager
Vincent Trémel	....	trainee unit manager

Second Unit Director or Assistant Director
Michael Berreby	....	second assistant director (as Michaël Berreby)
Hélène Serra	....	trainee assistant director
Pierrick Vautier	....	first assistant director

Art Department
Pauline Janand	....	assistant art director
Elodie Juvin	....	painter
Thomas Kramkimel	....	carpenter
Claire Massard	....	first assistant production designer
Anne-Karin Mordos	....	set dresser (as Anne-Karine Faivre-Mordos)
Thibaud Ponce	....	assistant art director
Samuel Raimondi	....	set builder
Christian Roudil	....	property master
Isabelle Vellard	....	chief painter

Sound Department
Annabel Acquaviva	....	sound assistant
Ludovic Delzenne	....	recordist
Geraldine Falieu	....	dialogue editor
Maxime Gavaudan	....	sound
Eric Grattepain	....	foley artist
Séverine Laumesfeld	....	recordist
François Méreu	....	sound editor
Mélissa Petitjean	....	sound mixer
Matthieu Sibony	....	supervising sound editor
Florian Thiebaux	....	recordist

Stunts
Dominique Fouassier	....	stunts

Camera and Electrical Department
Carole Ardoin	....	assistant camera
Cécile Arthuis	....	second assistant camera
Olivier Billard	....	gaffer
Cécile Bodenes	....	first assistant camera
Camille Bonin	....	grip
Michael Jean Bretones	....	gaffer
Arthur Chamaillard	....	grip
Pascal Chantier	....	still photographer
Etienne Cohet	....	grip
Sébastien Courtain	....	gaffer
Pierre Emily	....	key grip
Joseph Emiélot	....	grip (as Joseph Emeliot)
Eric Fontenelle	....	grip
Didier Larate	....	gaffer (as Didier Laratte)
Guillaume Leturgie	....	gaffer
Claire Nicol	....	still photographer
Olivier Rodriguez	....	gaffer
Olivier Rodriguez	....	grip
Olivier Sargatal	....	electrician

Costume and Wardrobe Department
Virginie Petit	....	costumer

Editorial Department
Mathilde Delacroix	....	color timer
Raphaëlle Dufosset	....	digital dailies colorist: Eclair
Gwenaëlle Hubert	....	assistant editor (as Gwen Hubert)
Aurélie Laumont	....	color timer

Music Department
Stéphane Reichart	....	music scoring mixer

Other crew
Diana Angulo	....	administrator
Arnaud Bigeard	....	making-of director
Juliette Chenais	....	trainee production assistant (as Juliette Chesnais)
Martine Dorin	....	production assistant
Ariane Guez	....	administrator
Mathieu Laemlé	....	location scout (as Matthieu Laemle)
Marjorie Marramaque	....	location scout
Pauline Pellegri	....	trainee production assistant
Edith Roux	....	location scout

Production Companies

• Moby Dick Films
• Les Films Pelléas (co-production)
• Banque Postale Image 2 (in association with)
• Canal+ (participation)
• CinéCinéma (participation)
• Région Ile-de-France (support)

Distributors

• Filmes do Estação (2010) (Brazil) (theatrical)
• Archibald (2009) (Italy) (all media)
• Cinemax (2010) (Hungary) (TV)
• Golem Distribución (2009) (Spain) (all media)
• Primer Plano Film Group (2011) (Argentina) (all media)
• Pyramide Distribution (2009) (France) (all media)
• Transeuropa Video Entertainment (TVE) (2011) (Argentina) (DVD)

Also Known As:

"Please, Please Me!" - Hong Kong (English title) (festival title), International (English title) (imdb display title)
"Enredos de amor" - Argentina (imdb display title)
"Faça-me Feliz!" - Brazil (imdb display title)
"Kane mou ti hari!" - Greece (festival title)
"Please, Please Me!" - Finland (festival title)

Runtime:

90 min

Country:

France

Language:

French

Color:

Color

Aspect Ratio:

1.85 : 1

Sound Mix:

Dolby Digital

Certification:

Australia:MA | Australia:M (DVD rating) | Argentina:16

Filming Locations:

Palais de l'Elysée, Rue du Faubourg Saint-Honoré, Paris, France

Company:

Moby Dick Films

Kissing in Parisian boudoirs, Mouret's latest comedy

Jean-Jacques (Emmanuel Mouret himself) and Ariane (Frédèrique Bel) live together happily in their playful world, till the day Jean-Jacques admits to have met another woman. Although he tries to tell her otherwise, Ariane is convinced that he desires this other woman, Elisabeth. With the impending risk of having their relationship end over this supposed desire, she tells him to give in to temptation to quench his desire. Although not wholeheartedly convinced himself, Jean-Jacques none the less goes out to meet the mysterious Elisabeth. It turns out to be a very eventful evening.

Emmanuel Mouret is rapidly establishing himself as a modern master of comedy, theatrical-style, even if he is still perfecting his art. "Fais-Moi Plaisir" stands clearly in line with his previous comedies of "Changement d'adresse" and "Un baisir s'il vous plait", and hopefully not the last either! It is a pity to ruin the thread of unfolding events which take you from one sketch to another, but perhaps an illustration of a -here Jacques Tati style humour- scene:

When Jean-Jacques arrives at Elisabeth's front door, he takes out a piece of paper on which he had written her doorcode and starts punch it in. And it continues… being long enough to be the international phone number of someone in central India. But the door opens. He steps into the hall and into an elevator. Jean-Jacques quickly notices that there are no buttons. Even before the confusion can settle, he hears a voice bidding him welcome into the elevator, and asking him which floor he would like to go to. He replies: "4". The elevator voice asks him to repeat which floor he would like to go to. He says "Eh, fourth floor". The elevator again says that is does not understand, and asks him to repeat. Jean Jacques says: "I'd like to go to the fourth floor… please" and the doors close…

As Jean-Jacques charms all the beautiful ladies surrounding him, we too are swept along through the romantic dreamy world of wide-eyed starlets in hidden corners till our brutal awakening back to earth: the ending. While in itself unremarkable, it still comes along as floodlights in the night. It is a curiosity to leave a comedy unsettled, but the ending is out of character with the film. A blemish on a creative and humorous achievement… but watch it none the less...