Starring the ageless Charlotte Rampling and French cinema icon Jean Rochefort, this engaging romantic comedy looks at two celebrities who may or may not rekindle a relationship that ended inexplicably 30 years earlier
Film director Louis Ruinard (Rochefort) and his favourite actress Alice d’Abanville (Rampling) were one of the most flamboyant star couples of the seventies, and the films they made together met with huge success at the time. But the love affair came to an abrupt end when Alice disappeared from Louis’ life one day without explanation. She returned to her native England, rapidly married a young lord with whom she had a son, and put an end to her film career. Thirty years on, when Louis arrives in London to make his thirty-fourth film, the organisers of the BAFTAs decide to honour him with a Lifetime Achievement award. Naturally, they invite Alice to present it to him…
The understated elegance of Rampling and Rochefort, portraying two monstrously proud and talented people who passed each other by (and never got over it), makes for compulsive and hilariously entertaining viewing.
France 2005 - Comedy (91 mins)
In French with English Subtitles
Director: Antoine de Caunes
Script: Antoine de Caunes
Cast: Charlotte Rampling, Jean Rochefort, Isabelle Nanty, Charles Dance