| Adrien Michaux | ... | Pascal | |
| Natacha Régnier | ... | Sarah Dacruon | |
| Alexis Loret | ... | Manuel | |
| Denis Podalydès | ... | Guigui, alias l'Innomable | |
| Olivier Gourmet | ... | Jean-Astolphe Méréville | |
| Camille Carraz | ... | Christine | |
| Jérémie Renier | ... | Cédric | |
| Christelle Prot | ... | La femme kurde | |
| Benjamin Lazar | ... | Michel | |
| Manuel Weber | ... | Juju | |
| Laurent Soffiati | ... | Olivier Jeanmin | |
| Julia Gros de Gasquet | ... | La professoresse de surréalisme | |
| Sandrine Willems | ... | La boulangère | |
| Mary-Claude Arcelin | ... | La mère de Sarah | |
| René Arcelin | ... | Le père de Sarah | |
| Joséphine Bouvet | ... | Sandrine | |
| Philippe Gaudry | ... | Le voisin dans l'ascenceur | |
| Eugène Green | ... | Le serveur du Café Glauque | |
| Mathieu Amalric | ... | Un spectateur du Nô | |
| Christophe Atabekian | ... | Un spectateur du Nô | |
| Thomas Bardinet | ... | Un spectateur du Nô | |
| Bertrand Bonello | ... | Un spectateur du Nô | |
| Emmanuel Bourdieu | ... | Un spectateur du Nô | |
| Judith Cahen | ... | Une spectatrice du Nô | |
| Mario Caniglia | ... | Un spectateur du Nô | |
| Yves Caumon | ... | Un spectateur du Nô | |
| Martine de Clermont-Tonnerre | ... | Une spectatrice du Nô | |
| Amalia Escriva | ... | Une spectatrice du Nô | |
| Emmanuel Finkiel | ... | Un spectateur du Nô | |
| Jean-Charles Fitoussi | ... | Un spectateur du Nô | |
| Diego Governatori | ... | Un spectateur du Nô | |
| Luca Governatori | ... | Un spectateur du Nô | |
| Pierre Léon | ... | Un spectateur du Nô | |
| Axelle Ropert | ... | Une spectatrice du Nô | |
| Eva Truffaut | ... | Une spectatrice du Nô | |
| Marie Vermillard | ... | Une spectatrice du Nô | |
| Isabelle Saint-Yves | ... | Quatuor à cordes: Viole | |
| Nanja Breedijk | ... | Quatuor à cordes: Harpe | |
| Vincent Dumestre | ... | Quatuor à cordes: Théorbe | |
| Arnaud Marzorati | ... | Quatuor à cordes: Basse-contre | |
| rest of cast listed alphabetically: | |||
| Serge Bozon | |||
| Susan Lay | ... | Eva | |
| Nadia Mauffrey | |||
| Nicole Mauffrey | ... | Camille | |
| Louise Moaty | |||
| Jean-François Novelli | ... | Taille | |
| Mathias Pedron | |||
| Jean-Rodolphe Petit-Grimmer | ... | Danseur | |
| Cécile Roussat | ... | Amie de Michel | |
Directed by | |||
| Eugène Green | |||
Writing credits(in alphabetical order) | ||
| Eugène Green | ||
Produced by | |||
| Martine de Clermont-Tonnerre | .... | producer | |
Cinematography by | |||
| Raphaël O'Byrne | |||
Film Editing by | |||
| Jean-François Elie | |||
Production Design by | |||
| Pierre Bouillon | |||
Costume Design by | |||
| Agnès Noden | |||
Makeup Department | |||
| Mary Boussiquet | .... | key makeup artist | |
Production Management | |||
| Claude Bonnefoy | .... | unit production manager | |
| Olivier Grometto | .... | unit production manager | |
| Lydia Nataf | .... | production manager | |
| Pascaline Renaudineau | .... | assistant unit manager | |
Second Unit Director or Assistant Director | |||
| Elsa Amiel | .... | first assistant director | |
| Stephane Chemin | .... | second assistant director | |
| Xiaoxing Cheng | .... | first assistant director | |
Art Department | |||
| Virginie Noël | .... | set dresser | |
Sound Department | |||
| Bertrand Boudaud | .... | foley artist | |
| Clément Chagot | .... | sound mixer trainee | |
| Frédéric de Ravignan | .... | sound | |
| Hugues Deschaux | .... | sound | |
| Armel Durassier | .... | boom operator | |
| Christophe Gagnot | .... | post-production sound | |
| Olivier Laurent | .... | sound editor | |
| Sébastien Pierre | .... | assistant sound editor | |
| Stéphane Thiébaut | .... | sound re-recording mixer | |
Stunts | |||
| Sybille Blouin | .... | stunts | |
| Philippe Guégan | .... | stunt coordinator | |
Music Department | |||
| Vincent Dumestre | .... | musical director | |
| Gaston Dupont | .... | musician | |
| Claire Lefilliâtre | .... | singing voice: Natacha Régnier | |
| Vincenzo Maletti | .... | composer: additional music | |
| Sylvain Marie | .... | musician | |
| Domenico Mazzocchi | .... | composer: additional music | |
| Jan Van Elsacker | .... | musician | |
Other crew | |||
| Marika Piedboeuf | .... | script supervisor | |
| Karen Waks | .... | script supervisor | |
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Eugene Green has come up with a quirky unclassifiable entry here with elements of satire, black comedy and tragedy rubbing shoulders that fit where they touch. Denis Podalydes and Olivier Gourmet act everyone off the screen but they do have strong assistance from the script in which the latter is more Eyde Gorme than Olivier Gourmet and the former appears to be sending up Gilbert Adair. The limerick about the young man from Racine who invented a strange new machine (concave or convex, it would fit either sex/with attachments for those in between)was seldom more apropos than in Gourmet's take on Phaedra which has to be seen to be believed whilst Podalydes succeeds in creating an entirely new kind of faggot, light years away from Michel Serrault's Screaming Queen in La Cage aux folles. This is one of those plots in which tenuous links between disparate characters never quite mesh. Camille Carroz (Christine) is much too intense for boyfriend Adrien Micheaux and finally finds a soulmate in an equally intense (but thankfully unseen) student who is passionate about 12th century dietary conditions in Normandy. In the wake of their break-up Micheaux falls in love with the voice of Sarah (Natacha Regnier)a soloist on an album Christine had given him as a Christmas present. We, of course, have been following the traumas of Christine, who despite being in a solid-seeming relationship with Manuel (Alexis Loret)is vaguely unhappy and not just because of the cruel criticism of her singing at the hands of Podalydes. Although continuous the film is also episodic and punctuated by picture postcard views of Paris and Classical French film buffs will be delighted to catch a glimpse of the Hotel du Nord, albeit as it is today but still in the same location on the Canal St Martin. Quirky, uneven, but one that can definitely stand a second viewing in, say, six months or so. 7/10