Lise and Andre (2000)
"Lise et André" (original title)

Director:

Denis Dercourt

Writer:

Denis Dercourt

Stars:

Isabelle Candelier, Michel Duchaussoy, Aïssa Maïga

3 wins & 1 nomination.

Cast

Cast overview, first billed only:
Isabelle Candelier	...	Lise
Michel Duchaussoy	...	André, le prêtre
Aïssa Maïga	...	Esther
Augustin Bartholomé	...	Bastien
Jean-Christophe Bouvet	...	Charles
Anne Le Ny	...	Véronique, la secrétaire d'André
Guillaume de Tonquedec	...	Le jeune homme catholique
Hélène Surgère	...	La mère de Lise
Philippe Duclos	...	Le frère de Lise
Gilles Arbona	...	L'ancien client marié
Jean-Michel Fête	...	Un agresseur
Philippe Lellouche	...	Un agresseur
Ly-Cheng Happe	...	La femme du restaurant vietnamien
Marie Rousseau	...	Docteur Kappa
Hélène Cauët	...	La belle-soeur de Lise

Storyline

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Plot Keywords:

character name in title

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Details

Country:

France

Language:

French Vietnamese

Release Date:

29 November 2000 (France)

Also Known As:

Lise and Andre

Company Credits

Production Co:

Les Films à Un Dollar

Technical Specs

Runtime:

87 min

Sound Mix:

Dolby SR

Color:

Color

User Reviews

The Road To Damascus

The priest and the prostitute: these two characters were often found in the old cinema's directors of the late fifties, Léo Joannon (Le Désert De Pigalle) or Maurice Cloche (Les Filles De Nuit). Those works of long ago have not worn well, that's to put it mildly.

Denis Dercourt's effort, however, has nothing to do with those old-fashioned melodramas. It's a modern movie which I would recommend only to believers because atheists would probably laugh at the providential ending, under a sky we could call Heaven.

Nevertheless, the story essentially focuses on the priest and it seems that the director is less interested in his hooker and her son gone in a coma. Both go on a pilgrimage to Abbeville where Virgin Mary would have appeared and fed starving children by throwing wheat all over the place; we are told, by the driver who takes them in his car, that the Catholic church has not yet recognized this miracle. This is basically a road movie which is the priest's road to Damascus because when the movie begins, he doesn't seem to believe anymore in what he preaches. En route to Abbeville, they will meet many ordinary people from a religion scholar to bad boys. Little by little, the priest opens up and finds out that Christ isn't in his church where he conducts a choir but on the roads, in the mental hospitals where simple people watch the birds or collect shells.

This is a fine performance by Michel Duchaussoy.