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Simon Donnadieu
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Laurence Masliah | ... |
Rachel Donnadieu
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Bernard Verley | ... |
Abraham Klimt
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Aude Amiot | ... |
Aude Amiel
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Roland Blanche | ... |
Le professeur de dessin /
Le libraire
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Marc Betton | ... |
Le médecin
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François Germond | ... |
Le pasteur
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Jean-Louis Loca | ... |
Max Mercure
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Anny Romand | ... |
La femme du pasteur
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Monique Couturier | ... |
La vieille servante
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Benjamin Kraatz | ... |
Benjamin
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Manon Andersen | ... |
Ondine
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Raphaël Potier | ... |
Un élève
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Delphine Quentin | ... |
Delphine, l'étudiente
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Véronique Varlet | ... |
L'étudiente
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Romance about Simon Donnadieu and his decision to leave his ever-loving wife Rachel.
Hélas pour moi 1993 Jean-Luc Godard's rumination on the meaning of it all i.e. creation, it's fruits shown as lovely landscapes; its music with snatches of a variety of masterpieces: as a counterpoint to the inheritors of creation (by accident or design) a rather messy confused lot, as confused as the hybrid god of Zeus and the Christian god of the troika who appears in the body of Simon, wife of Rachael, to experience first hand sexual pleasure (surely anathema to the Christian deity if one is to believe his vicar) in defiance of the death of His belief or at any rate it's gradual dissolution and relegation to a curious relic. Best to enjoy the view and skim the weighty thoughts unless a keen sense of filmic histrionics exists.