Voyez comme ils dansent (2011)

Director:

Claude Miller

Writers:

Claude Miller (writer) (dialogue) (adaptation)
Natalie Carter (writer) (dialogue) (adaptation)
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Release Date:

3 August 2011 (France)

Genre:

Drama

Plot Keywords:

Winter | Snow | Flashback | Love | One Man Show

Cast

Marina Hands	...	Lise Clément
James Thiérrée	...	Victor Clément aka Vic
Maya Sansa	...	Doctor Alexandra Smith aka Alex
Yves Jacques	...	George Bliss
Anne-Marie Cadieux	...	Brigitte
Aubert Pallascio	...	Antoine Clément
Normand D'Amour	...	Lee Atlee
Stuart Mylow Jr.	...	Charlie
Benoît Brière	...	L'avocat
Linda Smith	...	Annie
Patrick Goyette	...	Brad
Suzanna Lenir	...	La passagère du train à l'enfant
Raphaël Lacaille	...	le groom de l'Intercontinental
Martin Champagne	...	Le chauffeur de taxi
Alexander Bisping	...	Louis (as Alex Bisping)
Claudel Laberge	...	L'adolescente au portable
Kaniehtiio Horn	...	La femme kaska (as Kanietillo Horn)
Alexander Skerget	...	Josh
John Atslaktatle Canee	...	Un natif
Nakuset Shapiro	...	La femme de Charlie
Nadia David	...	L'hôtesse de France TV (as Nadja David)
Élisabeth Sirois	...	L'infirmière de l'hôpital à Paris
Donna Jacobs	...	La femme à la hache
Gilles Poulin-Denis	...	Le jeune homme kaska
Charlotte Pépin	...	La fille ado de Lee Atlee
Elijah Wentahawi	...	L'aide-soignant kaska
Alain Gendreau	...	Le chauffeur de camion grutier
Richard Fréchette	...	Un chauffeur
M. Dalton Gow	...	Le chauffeur de taxi parisien
Pascale Létourneau	...	La femme de Lee Atlee
Mélodie Simard	...	La fillette dans le train
Gilbert Wahiakeron	...	L'homme kaska blessé
François Fauteux	...	L'homme qui fait du ski de fond
Steeve Amirault	...	Le pianiste du bar de Gatchell
Jean-François Beaupré	...	Le joueur de djembé
Guy Ormisten	...	Le serveur du wagon-restaurant
Jean Guimond	...	Le vieil hommeà la gare
Marie-Laurence Arcouette	...	La vieille femmeà la gare
Pierre Lenoir	...	Le voyageur furieux dans le train
Michel Bérubé	...	Le chauffeur de la voiture accidentée
Roland Lachance	...	L'ami de Brad
Ranenhahawi Mylow	...	Le premier enfant de Charlie 1
Rorahkwaleshon Mylow	...	Le deuxième enfantde Charlie 2
Julie Calabrese	...	La troisième enfant de Charlie 3
rest of cast listed alphabetically:
Yves Theurette	...	Un enfant

Directed by
Claude Miller

Writing credits (in alphabetical order)
Natalie Carter		writer (dialogue) (adaptation)
Claude Miller		writer (dialogue) (adaptation)
Roy Parvin		novel

Produced by
Suzanne Girard	....	co-producer
Patrick Godeau	....	producer
Matthieu Henchoz	....	co-producer
Karen Monluc	....	executive producer

Original Music by
Vincent Segal

Cinematography by
Gérard de Battista

Film Editing by
Véronique Lange

Production Design by
Jean-François Campeau

Costume Design by
Michèle Hamel

Makeup Department
Chantal Bergeron	....	hair stylist
Réjean Goderre	....	key hair stylist

Production Management
Varujan Gumusel	....	post-production manager
José Lacelle	....	production manager
Daniel Ross	....	unit manager
Frédéric Sauvagnac	....	production manager

Second Unit Director or Assistant Director
Marielou Bélisle-Pierre	....	second assistant director
Hervé Ruet	....	first assistant director

Art Department
Louis Frederic Denomme	....	set dresser

Sound Department
Damien Bera	....	sound re-recording mixer
Cédric Deloche	....	dialogue editor
Geraldine Falieu	....	assistant sound editor
Dominique Gaborieau	....	sound re-recording mixer
Claude La Haye	....	production sound mixer
Gwennolé Le Borgne	....	supervising sound editor
Pierre Picq	....	boom operator
Jacques Plante	....	adr supervisor
Francis Péloquin	....	boom operator
Matthieu Tibi	....	sound mix technician

Special Effects by
Guillaume Murray	....	special effects supervisor

Visual Effects by
Alain Bignet	....	digital compositor
Alain Carsoux	....	visual effects director
Florian Chauvet	....	visual effects coordinator
Christophe Dehaene	....	digital compositor
Adrien Garcia	....	digital compositor
Julien Lasson	....	digital compositor
Fredrik Monteil	....	digital compositor
Vincent Perzo	....	digital compositor
Joel Pinto	....	digital compositor
Laurent Ripoll	....	visual effects editor

Stunts
Héléna Laliberté	....	stunt double: Lise
Marie Laurence Paquin	....	stunt double: Alex

Camera and Electrical Department
Daniel Chrétien Jr.	....	best boy electric
Daniel Chrétien	....	gaffer
Mathieu Décary	....	first assistant camera
Laurent Alexis Guertin	....	second assistant camera
Eric Morin	....	first assistant camera: second unit
Denis-Noel Mostert	....	steadicam operator
Richard Paré	....	electrician

Editorial Department
Chrystel Alépée	....	first assistant editor
Christian Dutac	....	color timer: LTC
Natacha Louis	....	colorist

Music Department
Sébastien Lépine	....	music supervisor

Transportation Department
Lyssa J. Caster	....	transportation captain
Alexandre Juaneda	....	transportation coordinator
André Michaud	....	driver

Other crew
Marc Feytout	....	press attache (as Jean-Marc Feytout)
Stéphanie Fouet	....	administratrice de production
Jean-Francois Hall	....	production assistant
Jean-Patrick Joseph	....	special equipment supplier
Silvy Kim	....	first assistant accountant
Julia Lenardon	....	dialect coach
Julia Lenardon	....	on-set dialect coach
Laurette Monconduit	....	press attache
Denis Paquette	....	assistant location manager

Production Companies

• Alicéléo
• Alicéléo Cinéma (co-production)
• Filmarto (co-production) (as Filmarto Inc.)
• France 2 Cinéma (co-production)
• Les Productions JMH (co-production) (as Les Productions Jean-Marc Henchoz)
• Banque Postale Image 3, La (in association with)
• Sofica Valor 7 (in association with)
• Sofica Valor 8 (in association with)
• Canal+ (participation)
• CinéCinéma (participation)
• Alicéléo Développement (support)
• Procirep (support)
• Angoa-Agicoa (support)
• Centre National de la Cinématographie (CNC) (participation)
• Téléfilm Canada (participation)
• Radio Canada (participation)

Distributors

• Seville Pictures (2011) (Canada) (theatrical)
• Wild Bunch Distribution (2011) (France) (theatrical)

Other Companies

• Bons Petits Plats  catering
• Sonia Tout Court  trailer
• Visual Motion  camera trucks and trailers provided by

Runtime:

France:99 min

Country:

France | Canada | Switzerland

Language:

French | English

Color:

Color

Aspect Ratio:

2.35 : 1

Sound Mix:

Dolby Digital

Certification:

Switzerland:10 (canton of Geneva) | Switzerland:10 (canton of Vaud)

Filming Locations:

Aéroport International Jean Lesage, Sainte-Foy, Québec, Canada

Company:

Alicéléo

Trivia:

French visa # 122784.

Soundtrack:

Ave Maria

With Claude Miller, travel to Canada and ...in troubled minds!

First things first, do not let yourself be discouraged by the plot. Yes this is a love story. Yes there are two women vying for a man. But far from being the low-grade photo-novel you could fear, "Voyez comme ils dansent" proves an atypical movie despite its trite theme. The result is that boredom never sets in during the 100 minutes of its running time. Quite the contrary in fact. One thing is that the movie is signed not by a run-of-the-mill director but by Claude Miller, the man who gave us such distinctive works as "La meilleure façon de marcher", "Garde à vue", 'L'effrontée", La chambre des magiciennes" and the recent "Un secret". Besides being a brilliant actor's director (which is once again the case), Miller has a talent for singling out the mystery and irrationality lurking behind "normality". He is indeed a past master at exploring the dark side of human soul. So, yes the storyline sounds basic and could be summed up as "Man-meets-woman / Man-leaves-woman-for-another / First-woman-meets- second-woman / Clash". Period. Luckily, Claude Miller, aided by co- writer Natalie Carter, working from an American short story, manages to make the most of an indifferent starting point, thus demonstrating once again that a story is less important in itself than the way it is dealt with. In order not to make "just another movie" the authors have made the choice to move the action from Paris (where too many films of this kind are made) to a much less familiar background : Canada, in the middle of winter (from Montreal to Gatchell, Alberta ; by train, then in an isolated house within a Mohawk reservation), thus blurring the viewers' all-too comfortable bearings. Another way to destabilize the spectator and, at the same time, to bring additional emotion and extra depth, lies in the use of a non-linear, non-chronological construction, punctuated at intervals by flashbacks of remembrances haunting the two female characters. It therefore soon appears that what is really at stake is much more what crosses their minds than the action itself. But the main achievement of Claude Miller's last opus may be its central figure, a man who has physically disappeared but who is all the more present for this very reason in both Lise and Alex's psyches. Victor (as he is known to Lise) or Vic (as he introduced himself to Alex) is a fascinating human being and artist. He is supposed to literally mesmerize the two characters as well as the audience ... and HE DOES. Only one actor in the world could play the role of this fabulous showman : James Thierrée, Charlie Chaplin's grandson and one of the most original and accomplished circus artists ever. If Thierrée had declined the role, Miller would doubtless not have made this picture. But he did and, in perfect harmony with his role, he brings the fascination required to make the pangs experienced by the two female leads believable. And a hundredfold so. In several flashback sequences, Victor's one-man show (in actual fact, a variation of James Thierrée real-life's one) is filmed lovingly by the director's camera and one cannot but remain breathless at this multi-talented artist's performance, in turns a comedian, a mime, an acrobat, a contortionist and a... POET. On the other hand, Thierrée proves as good as any top of the list "psychological actor" to capture the insecurity of this character. An over the top performance around which revolve those of two excellent actresses, a blonde Marina Hands, as Victor's ambiguous ex- wife, and a dark-haired but more luminous Maya Sansa, as Vic's second life companion in Alberta. At 68, Claude Miller happens to be a YOUNG director, still experimenting with the form instead of resting on his laurels. Which does not prevent him from going on exploring the meanders of the mind, thereby further illuminating his long career.