When the Cat's Away
(1996)
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When the Cat's Away
(1996)
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| Garance Clavel | ... |
Chloé
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| Zinedine Soualem | ... |
Djamel
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Renée Le Calm | ... |
Madame Renée
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Olivier Py | ... |
Michel
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Arapimou | ... |
Gris Gris, le chat
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Rambo | ... |
Rambo, le chat
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| Simon Abkarian | ... |
Carlos
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Frédéric Aufray | ... |
Photographer
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Olivier Barny | ... |
Un ouvrier ébéniste
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| Jane Bradbury | ... |
Un mannequin
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Joël Brisse | ... |
Le peintre Bel Canto
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Olympe Brugeille | ... |
Madame Brugeille
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Franck Bussi | ... |
Mec aggressif
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Marilyne Canto | ... |
La femme flic
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Aline Chantal | ... |
Madame Doubrowsky
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Chloe, a young woman, is going on holidays. She entrusts her beloved cat to Madame Renée's care. But one day Madame Renée (an old lady of the neighborhood) can not find the cat. Chloe starts searching the neighborhood... This is the pretext for the exploration of a quarter of Paris and his inhabitants. Written by Yepok
Much preferable to Klapisch's follow-up, the stagebound UN AIR DE FAMILLE, this film still visualises the traumatic labyrinth of its heroine as she tries to escape her diffident personality, her rotten luck with men and the bewildering changes to her beloved Paris. Klapisch isn't above using his cat metaphor scatalogically as well as philosophically, but the detective search for enlightenment gives the plot a badly needed momentum the second film lacks.
Rohmeresque, it's been called, and you can see the point in the reliance on dialogue, young protagonists, irony and colour-coding, if not the elder's overarching critical intelligence. CHACUN achieves an empathy with its heroine the Master might envy.