La vie moderne / une coproduction Gemini Films [and others] ; avec la participation de CANAL+ [and others] ; Paulo Branco présente ; un film de Laurence Ferreira Barbosa ; scenario, Laurence Ferreira Barbosa ; adaptation et dialogues de Laurence Ferreira Barbosa, Yvonne Kerouedan ; produit par Paulo Branco.
A foreign film (France). Special features include: interactive menus, scene selections, interview with Laurence Ferreira Barbosa, trailers, filmographies. Isabelle Huppert, Frederic Pierrot, Lolita Chammah.
Summary:
A film about a trio of unconnected people who struggle through the loneliness of their lives. Impetuous 17-year-old Marguerite (Lolita Chammah), who feels cut off from both her family and classmates, passes the time by talking to God. Eventually, she decides to enter a convent. Meanwhile, housewife Claire (Isabelle Hubbert) is frustrated after ten years of childless marriage. While going to visit a fertility expert in Paris, she happens upon an old lover, gets picked up by some guy at a bar and has a bizarre encounter with an America singer (Robert Kramer). Meantime, Jacques (Frederic Pierrot) is divorced, unemployed, and loathed by his daughter. Just as his life looks one long exercise in desperate futility, he meets comely Eva (Juliette Andrea). Suddenly, he transforms himself into a private detective, trying to track down a missing associate.
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