Of Woman and Magic (TV 2000)
"La chambre des magiciennes" (original title)

Claire Weygand, a thirty-year-old young woman who is about to defend her anthropology thesis, unfortunately not only feels bad but even worse and worse with each passing day. The migraine ... See full summary »

Director:

Claude Miller

Writers:

Claude Miller (scenario & adaptation), Siri Hustvedt (novel)

Stars:

Anne Brochet, Mathilde Seigner, Annie Noël

1 win & 1 nomination.

Cast

Cast overview, first billed only:
Anne Brochet	...	Claire Weygand
Mathilde Seigner	...	Odette
Annie Noël	...	Eléonore
Yves Jacques	...	Le docteur Fish
Edouard Baer	...	Simon
Jacques Mauclair	...	Le mari d'Eléonore
Edith Scob	...	Mme Weygand - la mère de Claire
Marc Cennelier	...	M. Weygand - le père de Claire
Samantha Rénier	...	Marie Weygand - la soeur de Claire
Virginie Emane	...	L'infirmière Patricia
Josselin Siassia	...	L'infirmier Limoges (as Jocelyn Siassia)
Béatrice Nzaou Niambi	...	Fatou
Valérie Bettencourt	...	La femme flic
Philippe Laudenbach	...	Le vieux docteur
Julien Boivent	...	Julien

Storyline

Claire Weygand, a thirty-year-old young woman who is about to defend her anthropology thesis, unfortunately not only feels bad but even worse and worse with each passing day. The migraine attacks she suffers from indeed keep her from working as hard as she should and in despair she decides to consult Doctor Fish. When the medicine the physician prescribes for her fails, Claire, who can't take it any more, asks him to hospitalize her. In hospital, Claire shares her room with Odette, a young woman who has lost the use of her legs and Eléonore, a frightening old woman...

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Plot Keywords:

hospital | anthropology | doctor | migraine | paralysis | 

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Genres:

Comedy | Drama

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Details

Country:

France

Language:

French

Release Date:

26 May 2000 (France)

Also Known As:

The Room of the Magicians

Company Credits

Production Co:

Arte France, Centre National de la Cinématographie (CNC), Gimages 3

Technical Specs

Runtime:

80 min

Sound Mix:

Dolby

Color:

Color

Aspect Ratio:

1.33 : 1

Did You Know?

Trivia

This films features extracts from the following TV Game Shows: * "100% Question" & "Et 1 et 2 et 3" (courtesy of Les Productions Grundy-Groupe Pearson Télévision).

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Soundtracks

"Les histoites d'a"
Written by Fred Chichin and Catherine Ringer

User Reviews

DV as a professional format

This film, the first of ARTE (French/German channel)"petite caméra" series, was shot with 2 miniDV DX100 Panasonic cameras. The kind of stuff you can buy at your local store. However, the quality of the picture matches what you could expect from a highly professional Digital Betacam. Very small, light, sensitive, the DV cams (the other films of the series were shot with Sony PD100 cameras) give new possibilities to the directors. At Berlin the film was presented in a 35mm copy. Nobody noticed the video origin. This demonstrates that it is now possible to produce non-Dogma high quality films with mini DV cameras.