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Director:
Alain Resnais
Writer:
Jules Feiffer (writer)
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Release Date:
7 September 1989 (West Germany) See more »
Genre:
Comedy See more »
Plot:
Joey Wellman, a cantankerous American cartoonist, accepts an invitation to come to an exhibition in Paris... See more » | Add synopsis »
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Awards:
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Cast

  (in credits order)
Adolph Green ... Joey Wellman
Laura Benson ... Elsie Wellman

Linda Lavin ... Lena Apthrop

Gérard Depardieu ... Christian Gauthier

Micheline Presle ... Isabelle Gauthier

John Ashton ... Harry Dempsey

Geraldine Chaplin ... Terry Amstrong
Caroline Sihol ... Dora Dempsey
rest of cast listed alphabetically:
Catherine Arditi ... La boulangère
Albert Benchamoul ... Un vieux villageois
Françoise Bertin ... La cliente de la marchande de légumes
Patrick Bonnel ... Le boucher
Charlotte Bonnet ... La femme chauffeur de taxi
Jean Champion ... Le chauffeur de taxi / Taxi driver

Emmanuelle Chaulet ... La secrétaire de Gauthier / Secretary of Gauthier
Jean-Marc Cozic ... Tintin
Pierre Decazes ... Le garagiste
Tony Dias ... Valentina
Guillaume Farny ... Bateman
Georges Fricker ... Roxy Darcel, le compagnon de Terry
Alain Fromager ... L'étudiant dans le bureau de Gauthier
François-Eric Gendron ... Lionel Cohn-Martin
Raphaëline Goupilleau ... L'étudiante dans le bureau de Gauthier
Isabelle Habiague ... La jeune femme qui chante
Lucienne Hamon ... Mme Roget / Mrs. Roget

Peter Hudson ... Le Spectre
Jacques Le Servot ... Spirit
Jean Prévôt ... Un vieux villageois
Anne Roussel ... La jeune femme fatiguée / The tired woman

Ludivine Sagnier ... La petite fille de la place du village
Agnès Seelinger ... La domestique du manoir
Gisèle Soban ... Elektra
Anne Teyssèdre ... La jeune femme dans le bureau de Gauthier
Nicolas Trong ... Le jeune homme dans l'avion
Isabelle Turpault ... Catwoman

Vitaliy Versace ... Son
Michel Weinstadt ... Corto Maltese
Isabelle Wolfe ... Laureline (as Isabelle Canet-Wolfe)
Abbes Zahmani ... Le Concombre Masqué
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Directed by
Alain Resnais 
 
Writing credits
Jules Feiffer (writer)

Produced by
Christian Ferry .... associate producer
Marin Karmitz .... producer
 
Original Music by
John Kander 
 
Cinematography by
Charles Van Damme 
 
Film Editing by
Albert Jurgenson 
 
Production Design by
Claude Moesching 
Jacques Saulnier 
 
Set Decoration by
Philippe Turlure 
 
Costume Design by
Catherine Leterrier 
 
Makeup Department
Nicole Chaubet .... hair stylist
Sylvie Lorthiois .... makeup artist
Thi-Loan Nguyen .... makeup artist
Patrick Villain .... hair stylist
 
Production Management
Yvon Crenn .... production manager
 
Second Unit Director or Assistant Director
Yann Gilbert .... first assistant director
 
Art Department
Philippe Turlure .... set dresser
 
Sound Department
Sylvain Lasseur .... boom operator
Jean-Claude Laureux .... sound
Jean-Paul Loublier .... sound
Fred Mays .... post-synchronization
Nadine Muse .... sound editor
 
Camera and Electrical Department
Arthur Cloquet .... first assistant camera
Gilbert Duhalde .... camera operator
François Hernandez .... first assistant camera: "b" camera
Jean-Pierre Lacroix .... gaffer
Alain Tanguy .... electrician
 
Costume and Wardrobe Department
Aude Bronson-Howard .... costume assistant
Anne-Marie Castaño-Padovan .... costumer
Hélène Robin .... wardrobe mistress
 
Editorial Department
Martine Fleury .... assistant editor
Elisabeth Guido .... assistant editor
Dominique Lefèvre .... post-production coordinator
 
Other crew
Sylvette Baudrot .... continuity
Sylvette Baudrot .... script supervisor
Gérard Beaume .... assistant: Depardieu
Derf La Chapelle .... choreographer
Caroline Saillo .... script supervisor assistant
 
Thanks
Guido Crepax .... thanks
Jean Giraud .... thanks (as Moebius)
 

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Runtime:
Germany:100 min
Country:
France
Language:
French | English
Color:
Color
Sound Mix:
Stereo
Certification:
Italy:T | Portugal:M/12 (Qualidade) | West Germany:12
Company:
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12 out of 16 people found the following review useful.
Where cats pop up, 30 June 2002
Author: anagram14 from Zürich, Switzerland

This is an absurd film, and in my book, that's a big compliment. It gives us a glimpse into the colourful world of Elsie and Joey Wellman. She's an ingénue from Ohio who emigrates to Paris to pursue Culture, which she found sadly lacking in the home of Joey, her exuberant cartoonist father. In "On connaît la chanson", it was songs Resnais used to show what was going on in his characters' minds; here, how could it be anything but cartoons? Though they haven't talked in two years, Joey's cartoon cat keeps intruding into Elsie's thoughts in a black-and-white bubble, usually scolding her. And a cutely vitriolic little cat it is! When Joey decides to visit Elsie on pretext of a cartoon exhibit, a major crisis threatens...

Resnais, who has worked with the likes of Enki Bilal (in "La vie est un roman"), obviously loves cartoons and cartoonists, yet also sympathizes with pretty over-intellectual young women like Elsie (a predecessor of Camille in "On connaît la chanson"). Many of his later movies use inspiredly silly elements to treat serious problems. Watching this one, I wondered about his influence on people like Hal Hartley. Strongly recommended to film-lovers, but probably not to the average movie-goer.

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