Va savoir (2001)

User Rating:

7.0/10   

Director:

Jacques Rivette

Writers:

Pascal Bonitzer (scenario) &
Christine Laurent (scenario) ...

Release Date:

10 October 2001 (France)

Genre:

Comedy | Drama | Romance

Plot:

Quick-witted, well-read cultured types revolve around each other in a delightful potpourri of theatre, romanticism and theft.

Plot Keywords:

Paris | Love | Jealousy | Theater | Based On Play

Awards:

2 wins & 3 nominations

Cast

Jeanne Balibar	...	Camille B.
Marianne Basler	...	Sonia
Hélène de Fougerolles	...	Dominique 'Do'
Catherine Rouvel	...	Madame Desprez
Sergio Castellitto	...	Ugo
Jacques Bonnaffé	...	Pierre
Bruno Todeschini	...	Arthur
Claude Berri	...	Librarian
Attilio Cucari	...	Salter
Bettina Kee	...	Mop
Luciana Castellucci	...	Lena
Emanuele Vacca	...	Salesio
Arturo Armone Caruso	...	Bruno
Valeria Cavalli	...	Ines
Fausto Maria Sciarappa	...	Silvio

Also Known As:

Va Savoir (Who Knows?) (Australia) (USA)
(Chi lo sa?) (Italy)
Chi lo sa? (Italy) (alternative spelling)
Va savoir + (France) (director's cut)
Va savoir - Keiner weiß mehr (Germany)

MPAA:

Rated PG-13 for brief nudity.

Runtime:

France:154 min | France:220 min (director's cut) | Germany:154 min | Spain:157 min

Country:

France | Italy | Germany

Language:

French | Italian

Color:

Color

Aspect Ratio:

1.85 : 1

Sound Mix:

DTS | Dolby Digital

Certification:

Singapore:NC-16 | South Korea:15 | Australia:PG | Finland:K-11 | France:U | Germany:6 | Netherlands:AL | Spain:13 | Switzerland:10 (canton of Geneva) | Switzerland:10 (canton of Vaud) | UK:PG | USA:PG-13 | Canada:PG (Ontario)

Filming Locations:

Paris, France

Company:

Pierre Grise Productions

Goofs:

Continuity: A child and a bicycle in the background disappears between shots in the park.

Quotes:

Ugo: What is he to you, this Pierre?
Cammille B.: I lived with him before, before I - I lived with him when I was in Paris. He liked the play. He's not a bore, you know.
Ugo: No, he's a good man. How long did you live with him?
Cammille B.: Two years. Almost two years. But not quite.
Ugo: What did it do to you to see him? Do you still love him?
Cammille B.: No.

Movie Connections:

References As You Desire Me (1932)

Soundtrack:

Senza Fine

Sophie Marceau wouldn't like it

Some years ago Sophie Marceau explained her move to Hollywood in more or less the following terms: I am tired of doing the same French movies where all in all there is a love triangle and in the end the three of them have dinner together. Well, Va savoir is exactly that kind of movie. It is more complicated because there are actually four love triangles, but yes, they all have a cake to share in the end; all the six people who were involved in the triangles. So nothing new here. The good thing, however, are the characters. Except for the brother-and-sister duo who are kind of stereotypical and possibly present the spectator with the cliché of male and female libertine Parisians, the other two couples arouse our curiosity with their insufficiencies: Camille is a little too absent-minded to be completely sane, Pierre is a typical academic dork who falls into furies of sophisticated frustration, Ugo visibly carries the burden of his unattractive appearance and compensates for it with his thick Italian accent, while Sonia obstinately tries to keep to the level of those intellectual pricks and prove how much more she knows about real life. This is a good melodrama if you like the genre. I do, and I liked it. Marceau probably wouldn't.