Director
Alain Resnais
Music (original)
John Kander
Cast
Laura Benson, Adolph Green, Linda Lavin
Edition 1998
100'
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1989
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Comedy
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Format:
35mm
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Dialogue:
French, English
Joey Wellman, an American cartoonist, is travelling to Paris to attend an exhibition of comics artists. But in fact he is using his invitation as a pretext to search for his daughter who is studying in Paris and from whom he has had no news. As for the daughter, she lives and breathes French literature and has just finished a thesis on Flaubert, which she has vainly been trying to get a brilliant university professor and Flaubert scholar to read. The young professor also turns out to be one of Joey's most fervent admirers. If a sense of gravity often predominates Resnais' work, he also likes a good laugh. In this film he has given free run to his ebullient enthusiasm in a story that mischievously compares and contrasts French and American cultures.
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Credits
Directors
Alain Resnais
Music (original)
John Kander
Cast
Laura Benson, Adolph Green, Linda Lavin
Scenario
Jules Feiffer
Director of Photography
Charles Van Damme
Editors
Albert Jurgenson
Producers
Christian Ferry, Marin Karmitz
More info
Dialogue
French, English
Countries of production
France
Year
1989
Filmography
Alain Resnais
L'aventure de Guy (short, 1936), Schéma d'une identification (short, 1946), Ouvert pour cause d'inventaire (1946), Visite à Oscar Dominguez (short, 1947), Visite à Lucien Coutaud (short, 1947), Visite à Hans Hartung (short, 1947), Visite à Félix Labisse (short, 1947), Visite à César Doméla (short, 1947), Portrait d'Henri Goetz (short, 1947), Le last Nestlé (short, 1947), L'alcool tue (short, 1947), Journée naturelle (short, 1947), Van Gogh (short, 1948), Malfray (short, 1948), Les Jardins de Paris (short, 1948), Châteaux de France (short, 1948), Gaugain (short, 1949), Pictura (1951), Guernica (1951), Statues also Die (short, 1953), Night and Fog (short, 1956), All the Memory in the World (short, 1956), Le mystère de l'atelier quince (short, 1957), The Song of Styrene (short, 1958), Hiroshima Mon Amour (1959), Last Year at Marienbad (1961), Muriel (1963), The War Is Over (1966), Far from Vietnam (1967), I Love You, I Love You (1968), Cinétracts (1968), The Year 01 (1973), Stavisky (1974), Providence (1977), My American Uncle (1980), Life Is a Bed of Roses (1983), Love Unto Death (1984), Mélo (1986), I Want to Go Home (1989), Lest We Forget (1991), No Smoking (1993), Same Old Song (1997), Not on the Lips (2003), Private Fears in Public Places (2006), Wild Grass (2009), You Ain't Seen Nothin' Yet (2012), Life of Riley (2014)
Technical Specs
Format
35mm