Les invités de mon père (2010)

Director:

Anne Le Ny

Writers:

Luc Béraud (screenplay)
Anne Le Ny (screenplay)

Release Date:

31 March 2010 (Belgium)

Genre:

Comedy

Plot:

Lucien Paumelle has been a human rights activist for decades and his relatives are not astonished when...

Cast

Fabrice Luchini	...	Arnaud Paumelle
Karin Viard	...	Babette Paumelle
Michel Aumont	...	Lucien Paumelle
Valérie Benguigui	...	Karine Paumelle
Veronica Novak	...	Tatiana
Raphaël Personnaz	...	Carter
Olivier Rabourdin	...	Rémy, le mari de Babette
Flore Babled	...	Julie
Max Renaudin Pratt	...	Simon (as Max Renaudin)
Emma Siniavski	...	Sorina
Marie Agnès Brigot	...	Mme Delbard (as Marie-Agnès Brigot)
Luc-Antoine Diquéro	...	Le bénévole
Cidalia Valente	...	Mme Da Silva
Aude Léger	...	Réceptionniste
Benjamin Atlan	...	Théo
Louise Duby	...	La mère de Théo
Anne Le Ny	...	Femme dans l'auto
Pierre Poirot	...	Homme dans l'auto
Thierry Angelvi	...	Le médecin (as Thierry Angelvy)
Monique Couturier	...	Tante Hélène

Directed by
Anne Le Ny

Writing credits (in alphabetical order)
Luc Béraud		screenplay
Anne Le Ny		screenplay and dialogue

Produced by
Bruno Levy	....	producer

Original Music by
Béatrice Thiriet

Cinematography by
Patrick Blossier

Film Editing by
Francine Sandberg

Casting by
Nathalie Cheron

Art Direction by
Yves Brover-Rabinovici
Patrick Schmitt

Set Decoration by
Thierry Rouxel

Costume Design by
Charlotte David

Makeup Department
Cédric Kerguillec	....	hair stylist
Jacky Reynal	....	makeup artist

Production Management
Judith Lionnet	....	post-production supervisor
Mélanie Pienne	....	unit manager trainee
Jacques Royer	....	production manager
Arthur Tabuteau	....	assistant production manager

Second Unit Director or Assistant Director
Catherine Cambier	....	second assistant director
Anne Felotti-Sommaruga	....	first assistant director

Art Department
Arthur Deleu	....	property master
Patrick Schmitt	....	first assistant art director
Marine Vaudour	....	graphics

Sound Department
Eric Devulder	....	sound recordist
Ivan Dumas	....	boom operator
Cédric Lionnet	....	sound mixer
Marion Lorthioir	....	post-synchronisation
Michel Monier	....	dolby consultant (as Michel Monnier)
Johann Nallet	....	sound re-recording mixer assistant
Thomas Niku-Lari	....	trainee assistant sound
Clément Trahard	....	sound trainee
Anne-Cécile Vergnaud	....	dialogue editor
Béatrice Wick	....	sound editor

Visual Effects by
Eric Brocherie	....	titles

Camera and Electrical Department
Anne Angèle Bertoli	....	video assistant
Eric Blanckaert	....	first assistant camera
Anouchka de Williencourt	....	still photographer
Maéva Drecq	....	second assistant camera
Pierre-Hugues Galien	....	assistant camera
Thibault Grabherr	....	still photographer
Christian Metz	....	grip

Casting Department
Agathe Hassenforder	....	casting: children
Christophe Istier	....	casting assistant
Jeanne Millet	....	extras casting

Editorial Department
Sophia Del-Vecchio	....	digital conformation
Virginie Seguin	....	assistant editor
Raymond Terrentin	....	color timer

Music Department
Philippe Laffont	....	music mixer
Ludovick Tartavel	....	music mix assistant

Other crew
Tony Arnoux	....	press attache
Rachel Bouillon	....	press attache
Inès de la Bévière	....	location scout
Anne Gerles	....	production secretary
Lionel Guerrini	....	location scout
Aurore Jactat	....	legal advisor
Sylvie Koechlin	....	script supervisor
Eric Lecuyer	....	location scout
André-Paul Ricci	....	press attache
Géraldine Toitot	....	production administrator

Thanks
Stefan Drössler	....	thanks

Production Companies

• Move Movie
• TF1 International (co-production)
• France 2 Cinéma (co-production)
• Canal+ (participation)
• CinéCinéma (participation)
• France Télévision (participation)

Distributors

• Films de l'Elysée, Les (2010) (Belgium) (theatrical)
• Monopole-Pathé (2010) (Switzerland) (theatrical)
• Pathé Films (2010) (Switzerland) (theatrical)
• TF1 International (2010) (worldwide) (theatrical)
• UGC Distribution (2010) (France) (theatrical)

Other Companies

• Les Audis de Joinville  post-production sound services
• Mairie de Sarnois  thanks

Also Known As:

"My Father's Guest" - USA (festival title)
"My Father's Guests" - Australia (TV title)

Runtime:

France:100 min

Country:

France

Language:

French

Color:

Color

Aspect Ratio:

2.35 : 1

Sound Mix:

DTS | Dolby Digital

Certification:

Switzerland:10 (canton of Vaud) | Switzerland:10 (canton of Geneva) | France:U | Australia:MA

Filming Locations:

Brittany, France

Company:

Move Movie

Trivia:

French certificate # 121101 delivered on 24-11-2009.

Soundtrack:

Impromptu Opus 90 N°3 D899 in G-flat major

Bittersweet comedy

I think you have to go pretty far back in time to get Hollywood versions of this type of comedy, like the banter in Girl Friday. This comedy in the French style revolves around class issues, albeit subtle ones in this case. Here, an old battle-scared socialist doctor marries, unbeknown to his own bourgeoisified children, a beautiful but blowsy Moldovan refugee to help her get her papers. He becomes besotted, and she exploits him just a bit too much for his children's taste and settled values. Everything revolves around the tension this creates in the children's lives, but through the tension and even vicious infighting, there are a lot of great lines and insightful psychology. Tatiana's déclassé manners and image at first even loosens up the uptight children, but when daddy disinherits them to provide for his spring bride's future, things fall apart. The ending (which I won't reveal) is a bit weak, but the rest, especially the dialogue and the sparkling acting by everyone involved are just wonderful. Of course, French films and their humour often revolve around this style of acting, where the actor embodies a Commedia dell'arte-style stereotype, except here it's a class and not a gender or sexual identity (this is France, not Italy). That's the hard part to translate to American audiences, first, literally in the subtitles and also in the larger sense, when Americans try to remake these French classics. How can one bring class tensions into the picture and make them meaningful to American audiences without falling into the parody of Trading Places (remember, Dan Ackroyd is a Yalie because he has a "posh" accent, and Eddie Murphy is street because, well, because he's Eddie Murphy) ? That's the part that often takes these movies beyond the comedic and into bittersweet truths. This is a great movie and definitely worth finding it, though I can't vouch for how it's subtitled (saw it in French).