Me and My Sister (2004) Les soeurs fâchées (original title)

Director:

Alexandra Leclère

Writer:

Alexandra Leclère

Release Date:

22 December 2004 (Belgium)

Genre:

Comedy | Drama

Plot:

Louise, younger sister, natural and straightforward, lives in province; Martine, older sister, beautiful and aloof...

Plot Keywords:

Big Sister | Champagne | Adultery | Paris France | Train Ride

Cast

Isabelle Huppert	...	Martine Demouthy
Catherine Frot	...	Louise Mollet
François Berléand	...	Pierre Demouthy
Brigitte Catillon	...	Sophie
Michel Vuillermoz	...	Richard
Christiane Millet	...	Géraldine
Rose Thiéry	...	Fernanda, la bonne
Bruno Chiche	...	Charles
Jean-Philippe Puymartin	...	L'éditeur
Aurore Auteuil	...	L'hôtesse accueil éditeur
Antoine Beaufils	...	Alexandre Demouthy
rest of cast listed alphabetically:
Philippe Breton
Philippe Cacheux
Françoise Dubois	...	Hôtesse salon de coiffure
Denis Sylvain

Directed by
Alexandra Leclère

Writing credits (in alphabetical order)
Alexandra Leclère

Produced by
Philippe Godeau	....	producer

Original Music by
Philippe Sarde

Cinematography by
Michel Amathieu

Film Editing by
Hervé de Luze
Jacqueline Mariani

Casting by
Agathe Hassenforder
Françoise Menidrey

Production Design by
Carlos Conti

Set Decoration by
Sébastien Monteux-Halleur

Costume Design by
Esther Walz

Makeup Department
Chantal Leothier	....	key hair stylist
Thi-Loan Nguyen	....	key makeup artist

Production Management
Jean-Jacques Albert	....	production manager
François Menny	....	unit production manager
Guillaume Parent	....	post-production manager
Antonio Tavares-Monteiro	....	assistant unit manager

Second Unit Director or Assistant Director
Laurent Perreau	....	first assistant director
Jean Baptiste Pouilloux	....	assistant director
Thierry Verrier	....	first assistant director

Art Department
Maxime Girault	....	assistant set decorator
Virginie Le Romain	....	assistant art director

Sound Department
Philippe Amouroux	....	adr recordist
Nicolas Becker	....	foley artist
Vincent Breau	....	second boom operator
Sophie Chiabaut	....	boom operator
Thomas Desjonquères	....	sound editor
Assia Dnednia	....	assistant foley artist (as Assia Zipper)
Jean-Paul Hurier	....	sound mixer
Raphael Sohier	....	sound editor
Christian Thurot	....	cable person
Jean Umansky	....	sound

Visual Effects by
Émilie Feret	....	visual effects coordinator

Camera and Electrical Department
Eric Blanckaert	....	second assistant camera
Catherine Cabrol	....	still photographer
Virginie Frot	....	video assistant
Nicolas Juge	....	electrician
Stefano Paradiso	....	Steadicam operator
Teresa Punzi	....	assistant camera
Samuel Renollet	....	second assistant camera

Casting Department
Catherine Deserbais	....	extras casting

Costume and Wardrobe Department
Françoise Dubois	....	wardrobe

Editorial Department
Sylvie Lager	....	assistant editor
Fabien Napoli	....	digital color grader
Fabien Pascal	....	color timer
Christophe Pinel	....	assistant editor
Frederique Veillard	....	first assistant editor

Music Department
Valérie Lindon	....	music supervisor

Other crew
Agathe Grau	....	script supervisor
Juliette Soubrier	....	apprentice director
Jean-Pierre Vincent	....	press attache

Production Companies

• Pan Européenne Production
• Studio Canal (co-production)
• France 2 Cinéma (co-production)
• Région Ile-de-France (participation)
• Canal+ (participation)
• CinéCinéma (participation)

Distributors

• Pan Européenne Distribution (2004) (France) (theatrical)
• Frenetic Films (2004-2005) (Switzerland) (theatrical)

Other Companies

• Arane  credits
• Studio Canal  world sales

Also Known As:

"Les soeurs fâchées" - France (original title)

Runtime:

93 min

Country:

France

Language:

French

Color:

Color

Aspect Ratio:

1.85 : 1

Sound Mix:

Dolby

Certification:

Sweden:Btl | Germany:12 | Australia:M | Switzerland:12 (canton of Geneva) | Switzerland:12 (canton of Vaud) | France:U | Spain:7

Filming Locations:

Paris, France

Company:

Pan Européenne Production

Trivia:

Alexandra Leclère met Isabelle Huppert and offered her her script while she was waiting outside school for her youngest son.

Quotes:

Martine:Happiness, there's more to life than just that !

Movie Connections:

Features The Young Girls of Rochefort (1967)

Soundtrack:

La Chanson des Jumelles

Two And Frot

I'm very surprised to find not a single comment on such a class act. Okay, it's a new release but it IS five days old now. Anyhow it's so good to see that Isabelle Huppert has temporarily abandoned her apparent avowed intent to plumb the depths of sleaze in her ongoing trawl through the sewers of the world and return to what she does better than most actresses anyplace, anytime, anywhere that this could be a stinker and it would still be a breath of fresh air. As it happens it's anything but and Huppert and Catherine Frot are twin delights. Huppert is the chic, snobbish wife living in the right arrondissement, checking accounts in all the right places and the right kind of husband to pick up the tab. The wonderful Francis Berleand scores as the unfaithful husband who can't stand sister-in-law Frot; normally that's not a problem since Frot lives in the provinces but now she's written a book and has come to town to rubber-stamp a publishing deal and will spend three days with Huppert and Berleand. What we have is a very low-key take on Neil Simon's Odd Couple with Frot being everything Huppert is not and vice versa. Frot, fresh from playing a Tyrant's Tyrant in Vipere au poing turns up here as the kind of lovable kook that Shirley MacLaine was always being cast as but could never quite bring off because she couldn't do lovable (she couldn't do kook either if anybody ask you but that's another story), and she shows Maclaine just how it's done.

Okay, we're talking soufflé here but it's a French soufflé, hand-made at Maxim's. Eat, Enjoy.