Coeurs (2006)

Calificación de los usuarios:

7.1/10   

Director:

Alain Resnais

Escritores:

Alan Ayckbourn (play)
Jean-Michel Ribes (writer)

Fecha de Lanzamiento:

22 noviembre 2006 (France)

Género:

Drama | Romance

Frase comercial:

For six strangers in search of love, the City of Lights can be a very lonely place.

Plot:

In Paris, six people all look for love, despite typically having their romantic aspirations dashed at every turn.

Plot Keywords:

Bartender | Paris | Video Tape | Ex Soldier | Old Man

Premios:

5 wins & 9 nominations

Comentarios de los usuarios:

A very funny and insightful reflection on relationships and solitude

Reparto

Sabine Azéma	...	Charlotte
Isabelle Carré	...	Gaëlle
Laura Morante	...	Nicole
Pierre Arditi	...	Lionel
André Dussollier	...	Thierry
Lambert Wilson	...	Dan
Claude Rich	...	Arthur (voice)
Françoise Gillard	...	Speakerine TV
Anne Kessler	...	Présentatrice émission TV
Roger Mollien	...	Soldat poète émission TV
Florence Muller	...	Critique d'art émission TV
Michel Vuillermoz	...	Architecte émission TV

Dirigida por
Alain Resnais

Créditos del guión (en orden alfabético)
Alan Ayckbourn		play "Private Fears in Public Places"
Jean-Michel Ribes		writer

Producida por
Valerio De Paolis	....	co-producer
Bruno Pésery	....	producer
Julie Salvador	....	executive producer
Vitaliy Versace	....	associate producer

Música original por
Mark Snow

Fotografía por
Eric Gautier

Montaje por
Hervé de Luze

Diseño de producción por
Jacques Saulnier
Solange Zeitoun

Dirección artística
Jean-Michel Ducourty

Diseño de vestuario por
Jackie Budin

Departamento de maquillaje
Sylvie Aid	....	makeup artist (as Sylvie Aid Denisot)
José-Luis Casas	....	key hair stylist
Patrick Inzerillo	....	hair stylist
Delphine Jaffart	....	key makeup artist

Dirección de producción
Hervé Duhamel	....	production manager
Caroline Gonce	....	assistant unit manager
Etienne Grandon	....	assistant unit manager
Frédéric Grunenwald	....	unit manager
Bruno Jouan	....	assistant unit manager
Thibault Leclercq	....	assistant unit manager
Pierre Lochardet	....	assistant unit manager
Béatrice Mauduit	....	post-production supervisor

Ayudante de dirección
Charlotte Buisson-Tissot	....	assistant director
Dorothée Chesnot	....	third assistant director
Laurent Herbiet	....	first assistant director: preproduction
Christophe Jeauffroy	....	first assistant director
Iris Wong	....	second assistant director

Departamento de Arte
Matthieu Beutter	....	assistant art director
Jacky Hardouin	....	construction coordinator
Philippe Margottin	....	set dresser
Marc Pinquier	....	property master

Departamento de sonido
Nicolas Becker	....	foley artist
Jean-Marie Blondel	....	sound
Yannick Boulot	....	sound recordist
Katia Boutin	....	dialogue editor
Thomas Desjonquères	....	supervising sound editor
Florian Fabre	....	assistant foley artist
Séverin Favriau	....	assistant sound editor
Gérard Lamps	....	sound mixer
Lionel Le Bras	....	post-synchronization boom operator
Alain Lévy	....	post-synchronization
Armelle Mahé	....	assistant sound mixer
Armelle Mahé	....	dialogue recordist
Armelle Mahé	....	foley recording engineer
Frédéric Pardon	....	boom operator
Florian Thiebaux	....	sound recordist

Efectos especiales
Géraldine Banet	....	special effects snowmaker
Pascale Butkovic	....	special effects snowmaker
Karine Dubois	....	special effects snowmaker
Benoît Rousselin	....	special effects snowmaker
Stéphane Ruet	....	special effects snowmaker

Visual Effects
Anita Lech Bedez	....	digital artist
Adrien Borzakian	....	digital artist
Thibault Deloof	....	digital artist
Stéphane Keller	....	matte painter
Frederic Moreau	....	visual effects designer
Frederic Moreau	....	visual effects supervisor
Fred Roz	....	titles
Laurence Vidot	....	visual effects coordinator

Especialistas
Ivan Crasci	....	stunts

Cámara y Departamento Eléctrico
Gilles Balezeaux	....	additional gaffer
François Berroir	....	electrician
Sylvie Biscioni	....	still photographer
Laurent Bourgeat	....	gaffer
Gerard Buffard	....	key grip
Julien Buffard	....	grip
Frédéric Cantin	....	additional grip
Pascal Delaunay	....	additional grip
Samuel de Luze	....	trainee assistant camera
Hervé Denis	....	gaffer
Yohann Favard	....	additional grip (as Johann Favard)
Christophe Guilbaud	....	gaffer
Pierre Jandot	....	additional gaffer
Nathalie Lao	....	second assistant camera
Julien Leblond	....	additional gaffer
Stéphane Lejeune	....	gaffer
Tom Mitaux	....	additional gaffer
Eric Nové	....	grip
Fabienne Octobre	....	focus puller
Ludovic Petit	....	gaffer
Sébastien Plessis	....	additional gaffer
Luc Reyrolle	....	additional gaffer
Eric Sacher	....	crane operator

Departamento de vestuario
Claire Chanat	....	assistant costume designer

Departamento de Edición
Mélanie Bénard	....	assistant editor
Nicolas Criqui	....	digital conformation
Beatrice Herminie	....	assistant editor (as Béatrice Herminie)
Isabelle Julien	....	color timer
Frederic Jupin	....	lustre editor

Departamento de Música
Larold Rebhun	....	music mixer

Otros miembros del equipo
Sylvette Baudrot	....	script supervisor
Claire Bodechon	....	trainee production secretary
Virginie De la Chaise	....	production secretary
Ludivine Doazan	....	trainee script supervisor
Isabelle Haspel	....	production administrator
Elodie Jauffret	....	trainee script supervisor
Sylvie Jeanblanc	....	production secretary
Romeo Julien	....	avid conformation
Bruno Podalydès	....	director: TV sequences
Jacques Quinternet	....	location manager

Compañías Productores

• Soudaine Compagnie
• Studio Canal (co-production)
• France 2 Cinéma (co-production)
• Société Française de Production (SFP) (co-production)
• BIM (co-production)
• Banque Populaire Images 6 (in association with)
• Canal+ (participation)
• TPS Star (participation)
• Centre National de la Cinématographie (CNC) (participation)
• Eurimages (participation)
• Région Ile-de-France (participation)

Distribuidores

• A-Film Distribution (2007) (Netherlands) (theatrical)
• Arsenal (2007) (Germany) (theatrical)
• BIM Distribuzione (2006) (Italy) (theatrical)
• Distribution Company (2007) (Argentina) (theatrical)
• IFC Films (2007) (USA) (theatrical)
• IFC First Take (2007) (USA) (theatrical) (subtitled)
• Kinowelt Home Entertainment (2008) (Germany) (DVD)
• Mars Distribution (2006) (France) (theatrical)
• Sharmill Distributors (2007) (Australia) (theatrical)
• Weinstein Company, The (2007) (USA) (DVD)

Otras Compañías

• Soundtrack  trailer

También conocida como:

Private Fears in Public Places (International: English title) (USA) (festival title)
Cuori (Italy)
Petites peurs partagées (France) (working title)
Asuntos privados en lugares públicos (Spain) [es]
Corazones (Argentina) [es]
Pasiones privadas en lugares públicos (Mexico) [es]

Duración:

120 min

País:

France | Italy

Idioma:

Francés | Inglés

Color:

Color

Relación de Aspecto:

2.35 : 1

Sonido:

Dolby Digital

Clasificación:

Switzerland:12 (canton of Vaud) | Switzerland:12 (canton of Geneva) | France:U | Italy:T | Germany:12 | Brazil:14 | South Korea:15 | Australia:M

Compañía:

Soudaine Compagnie

Trivialidades:

There is a Scarborough poster in Thierry's home. The English seaside resort of Scarborough is the home of the play's author, Sir Alan Ayckbourn.

Errores:

Continuidad: When Charlotte has the tomato soup thrown at her by Arthur, the front of her blouse and sweater have large reddish stains on them. When Lionel returns home and is talking to her, the stains have disappeared.

A very funny and insightful reflection on relationships and solitude

Coeurs, the latest achievement of French master Alain Resnais, stands out as one of the finest European productions of 2006, a fact confirmed by the Silver Lion it was awarded in Venice. While the critics and audience at the festival were more anxious to see other films, like The Black Dahlia or INLAND EMPIRE, this small, intimate, bittersweet character study quietly moved towards well deserved recognition, proving that the great New Wave director had lost none of his special touch.

Like one of his best known films, Smoking/No Smoking, Coeurs is based on a play by Alan Ayckbourn. But whereas Smoking/No Smoking retained its untarnished Englishness, Resnais makes it pretty clear that he's keeping his new work as distant as possible from its literary source: the title is completely different (as the French filmmaker thought Private Fears in Public Places was misleading in regards to the subject), and the story is set in Paris, with the inevitable (and, I might add, quite brilliant) changes in the dialogue that this requires.

The film focuses on six people struggling to achieve or maintain meaningful relationships. There's the aging Thierry (André Dussollier, funny and heartbreaking at the same time) who has to fight his feelings for his younger assistant (Sabine Azéma). There's his sister Gaelle (Isabelle Carré), who goes out on blind dates every night and always comes back hugely disappointed. There's Nicole (Laura Morante), a frustrated woman who's trying to find a nice apartment whilst dealing with her unemployed and increasingly detached boyfriend, Dan (Lambert Wilson). And there's Lionel (Pierre Arditi, a laconic revelation), a lonely bartender who has to take care of his father, the rude, sex-obsessed Arthur (Claude Rich, heard but not seen). Over the course of four days, these characters will meet and affect each others'lives in unexpected, amusing, but also very touching ways.

With this masterwork, Resnais proves himself a true auteur, telling us an apparently simple tale of love and longing with a direct, honest approach, from the hilarious beginning to the moving, open conclusion. In adapting Ayckbourn's stage work, he manages the impossible, which is to make the movie look theatrical but not overly bizarre, using subtle, unpretentious tricks: the speaking parts belong solely to the six leading actors (plus Rich's priceless vocal cameo), every single scene takes place indoors (and the locations are always the same), and, most importantly, sequences are linked by a metaphorical snowfall, which gives the film a poetic, almost magical feel.

Those who thought Closer could have benefited from less swearing and more sympathy for its characters should watch Coeurs. It may not exactly end on a happy note, but at least it doesn't risk sliding into misanthropy. Beneath the apparent pessimism, there's a heart beating. The heart of an experienced director who hasn't stopped to amaze us.