Betty Fisher et autres histoires (2001)

Director:

Claude Miller

Writers:

Claude Miller (writer)
Ruth Rendell (novel)

Release Date:

13 September 2002 (USA)

Genre:

Comedy | Crime | Drama | Thriller

Tagline:

Crimes of passion are not always between lovers.

Plot:

Grieving after the death of her young son Joseph, novelist Betty Fisher enters a dark depression. Hoping to bring her out of it...

Plot Keywords:

Criminal | Death | Depression | Novelist | Drinking

Awards:

5 wins & 3 nominations

Cast

Sandrine Kiberlain	...	Betty Fisher
Nicole Garcia	...	Margot Fisher
Mathilde Seigner	...	Carole Novacki
Luck Mervil	...	François Diembele
Edouard Baer	...	Alex Basato (as Édouard Baer)
Stéphane Freiss	...	Edouard
Yves Jacques	...	René the Canadian
Roschdy Zem	...	Dr. Jerome Castang
Consuelo De Haviland	...	Madame Barsky
Yves Verhoeven	...	Martinaud
Annie Mercier	...	Jacqueline
Alexis Chatrian	...	Jose Novacki
Enzo Crebessegues	...	Child
Arthur Setbon	...	Joseph Fisher
Réva Rothstein	...	Child

Also Known As:

Alias Betty (USA)
Betty Fisher and Other Stories (International: English title)
L'histoire de Betty Fisher (France) (working title)

Runtime:

103 min

Country:

France | Canada

Language:

French

Color:

Color

Sound Mix:

DTS | Dolby Digital

Certification:

Finland:K-15 | Argentina:13 | France:U | Singapore:NC-16 | Switzerland:12 (canton of Geneva) | Switzerland:12 (canton of Vaud) | UK:15

Company:

Canal+

Trivia:

In the scene in which Alex goes to the bookshelf and pulls down a book in which some money is hidden, all the books on that shelf are by Ruth Rendell, who wrote the book this film was based on. The cover of the French version of that book, entitled 'Jeux des Mains', is prominently displayed when he pulls down the book.

Movie Connections:

Version of Tree of Hands (1989)

Subtle with emotions: famous daughter loses her son, her strange mother finds a substitute from the destitute

Set in France, and Paris, but not the usual one. Instead, we see the suburbia, and the projects. A rich woman, famous by a best-seller novel talking about her experience on NY, gets her strange mother at the airport, with her 4-year old son. Strange? A lot! Not crazy, but almost... The boy dies, and strange as she is she tries to mend her daughter's loss with a substitute: she kidnaps a boy of the same age and fit from a woman living on a project, almost a whore. One other story! More will follow, all nicely intertwined. Nice characters, the mothers, all of them, the lovers, all of them...