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6.2/10   283 votes
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Director:
Writers:
Martine Dugowson (scenario) &
Peter Chase (scenario)
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Release Date:
25 June 1997 (France) more
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Plot:
Ada and Lise are both costume designers, the first is around 20, the other around 30. Both are working hard on their break through... more | add synopsis
Awards:
1 win & 2 nominations more
User Comments:
Paul and Ada and Lise and Paris more (7 total)

Cast

  (Cast overview, first billed only)

Helena Bonham Carter ... Ada
Romane Bohringer ... Lise
Jean-Philippe Écoffey ... Paul
Marie Trintignant ... Nina
Elsa Zylberstein ... Emma

Yvan Attal ... Yves
Sergio Castellitto ... Guido

Miki Manojlovic ... Alphonse
Jean-Claude Brialy ... René Sandre
Sophie Simon ... Agnès
Emmanuelle Escourrou ... Stéphanie
Katerina Mechera ... Emilia (as Katia Mechera)
Mathilde Seigner ... Fanny
Artus de Penguern ... Gérard
Pierre Baillot ... Monsieur Verdoux
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Additional Details

Also Known As:
Shadow Play
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Runtime:
111 min
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Movie Connections:
References La famiglia (1987) more
Soundtrack:
Toute seule more

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Paul and Ada and Lise and Paris, 18 March 2000
5/10
Author: ieaun from dudley, england

Episodic film dealing with the lives and loves of a group of young professional Parisians. Helena Bonham-Carter in her first French film is good and speaks the language like a native. Romane Bohringer is very sexy as usual, and Elsa Zylberstein and Marie Trintignant are very amusing. The male characters are less interesting and rather two-dimensional, with the exception of screenwriter Paul (Jean-Philippe Ecoffey). The film concentrates mainly on the on-off relationship between Ada and Paul and the effect that the young Lise has on both their personal relationship and Ada's professional career. The film is an improvement on Dugowson's previous "Mina Tannenbaum", but the large number of characters makes it difficult to get emotionally involved with, and care what happens to, any of them.

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