La vie est un roman / produit par Philippe Dussart en coproduction avec Soprofilms, Films A2-Fideline Films, Les Films Ariane-Filmédis ; scénario, Jean Gruault ; réalisation, Alain Resnais.
Vittorio Gassman, Ruggero Raimondi, Geraldine Chaplin, Fanny Ardant, Pierre Arditi, Sabine Azéma, Robert Manuel, Martine Kelly, Samson Fainsilber, Veronique Silver, Andre Dussollier. Widescreen presentation. Originally released as a motion picture in 1983. Special features: Original theatrical trailer; "Resnais est un roman:" a documentary film on the making of Life is a bed of roses (1983).
Summary:
Divided into three narratives. First section is set around the first decade of the twentieth century in the Ardennes, where Count Forbeck unveils his architect's design for a utopian city. In a modern day mirroring of the first story, a group of professors now inhabiting Forbeck's castle seek a new form of education through the use of the imagination, under the guidance of a guru named Guarini. The last segment depicts a Wagnerian fantasy landscape of kings and dragons, which arises from the imagination of the children of some of the professors at the school.
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