Très bien, merci (2007)

Director:

Emmanuelle Cuau

Writers:

Emmanuelle Cuau
Agnès Caffin

Release Date:

25 April 2007 (France)

Genre:

Comedy | Drama

Plot Keywords:

Subway Train | Psychiatric Hospital | Cigarette Smoking | Taxi | Taxi Driver

Awards:

1 win

Cast

Gilbert Melki	...	Alexandre 'Alex' Maupain
Sandrine Kiberlain	...	Béatrice
Olivier Cruveiller	...	Landier
Christophe Odent	...	Patron Alex
René Remblier	...	Contrôleur RATP
Grégory Gadebois	...	Patron café
Baptiste Roussillon	...	Le client 'roi'
Matthieu Boujenah	...	Homme jeune couple interpellé
Astrid Defrance	...	Femme jeune couple interpellé
David Migeot	...	Policier interpellation 1
Patrick Dross	...	Policier interpellation 2
Emilie Chesnais	...	Policière interpellation
Patricia Varnay	...	Policière commissariat
Stephane Lagoutte	...	Policier commissariat
Catherine Laporte	...	Policière commissariat
Hacène Belkhadra	...	Policier commissariat (as Ahcène Belkhedra)
Michel Capitanio	...	Policier fourgonnette
Bénédicte Brunet	...	Infirmière soins
Antoine Duhayot	...	Infirmier hall
Barbara Chavy	...	Femme bizarre
Frédéric Pierrot	...	L'interne
Catherine Giron	...	Infirmière guichet 1
Fanfan	...	Infirmière guichet 2
Nathalie Akoun-Cruveiller	...	Docteur Pachot
Olivier Loiseau	...	Patient
Franck Tokarz	...	Infirmier
Michelle Roquier	...	Femme au déambulateur
Bruno de Keyzer	...	Homme aux mains
Agnès Caffin	...	Femme aux cigarettes
Dimitri Rataud	...	Le directeur des ressources humaines
Emmanuel Salinger	...	Le fumeur du métro
Joseph Malerba	...	Collègue Alex
Camille Japy	...	Cliente agitée
Francis Leplay	...	Interne urgences
Marie-Frédérique Delestré	...	Infirmière urgences
Catherine Ferran	...	Psychiatre urgences
Hélène Viaux	...	Cliente fauchée
rest of cast listed alphabetically:
Julie Duhayot	...	Infirmière
Patrick Mimoun
Catherine Rouchon

Directed by
Emmanuelle Cuau

Writing credits (in alphabetical order)
Agnès Caffin
Emmanuelle Cuau

Produced by
Paulo Branco	....	producer

Cinematography by
Bruno de Keyzer

Film Editing by
Jackie Bastide

Casting by
Guillaume Bonnier
Emmanuelle Cuau

Production Design by
Véronique Barnéoud

Set Decoration by
Anne Chedeau
Julien De Sutter
Joël Lavrut

Costume Design by
Marie-Frédérique Delestré
Dorothée Lissac

Makeup Department
Sylvia Carissoli	....	makeup artist

Production Management
Martine Letinier	....	unit manager
Guillaume Lirondiere	....	executive in charge of production finance
Donat Massoni	....	assistant unit manager
Anne Mattatia	....	post-production supervisor
Raoul Peruzzi	....	pre-production manager
Maud Quiffet	....	unit manager
Philippe Rey	....	production manager
Tourdjman Valentin	....	assistant unit manager
Lola Zajdermann	....	assistant production manager

Second Unit Director or Assistant Director
Julie Duhayot	....	second assistant director
Nicolas Lévy-Beff	....	first assistant director
Antoine Poulet	....	assistant director

Art Department
Christian Roudil	....	property master

Sound Department
Bertrand Boudaud	....	foley artist
Guillaume Chevalier	....	boom operator
Gilles Fargout	....	dialogue editor
Frédérique Liébaut	....	post-synchronization
Patrice Mendez	....	sound
Gérard Rousseau	....	sound mixer
Emmanuel Soland	....	sound editor
Emmanuel Soland	....	sound

Camera and Electrical Department
Mathieu Billoué	....	grip
Tiphaine Birotheau	....	assistant camera
Sébastien Greveldinger	....	electrician
Emile Laisné	....	grip
Michel LeFrançois	....	gaffer
Peggy Peigné	....	assistant camera

Casting Department
Justine Léocadie	....	extras casting

Editorial Department
Melanie Bigeard	....	assistant editor
Julie Decondé	....	assistant editor
Matthieu Pradeau	....	color timer

Other crew
Agathe Astira	....	administrator
Agathe Astira	....	production accountant
Agnès Chabot	....	press attache
Aurélie Kazian	....	production assistant
Cécile Mille	....	production assistant
Antoine Poulet	....	location scout
Ariel Sctrick	....	location scout
Gérard Sionneau	....	groupman
Mathilde Vallet	....	script supervisor

Production Companies

• Gemini Films
• Centre National de la Cinématographie (CNC) (participation)
• CinéCinéma (participation)
• Canal+ (participation)
• Agence du Cinéma Indépendant pour sa Diffusion (ACID) (support)
• Association Française des Cinémas d'Art et d'Essai (AFCAE) (support)

Distributors

• Gemini Films (2007) (France) (theatrical)
• Gemini Video Editions (2009) (France) (DVD)
• Films de l'Elysée, Les (2007) (Belgium) (theatrical)

Other Companies

• Car Grip Films  grip equipment & cars
• Fuji  film stock
• Oeuvres Hospitalières de l'Ordre de Malte  thanks
• TEST  titles and opticals

Also Known As:

"Very Well, Thank You" - International (English title) (literal title)

Runtime:

Germany:102 min (European Film Market)

Country:

France

Language:

French

Color:

Color

Aspect Ratio:

1.85 : 1

Sound Mix:

Dolby SR | Dolby Digital

Certification:

Portugal:M/12

Filming Locations:

Paris, France

Company:

Gemini Films

Soundtrack:

Kindersymphonie

Thanks But No Thanks

*** This review may contain spoilers ***

This is a slightly disturbing film for a Francophile like me bearing as it does distinct overtones of intolerance for individual rights. Accountant Gilbert Melki, upright law-abiding citizen, in a stable ten-year marriage with cab-driver Sandrine Kiberlain is stopped my an official as he leaves the Metro smoking a cigarette - there's no suggestion that he was smoking ON the Metro itself or even on the platform; he is, in fact only a few metres from the street - and asked for I.D. Not unnaturally he bridles at this but threatened with the police he acquiesces. A short time later he sees police demanding I.D. in the street and pauses to watch. This doesn't sit well with the police who tell him to 'get lost'. When he persists in hanging around and explaining he is just watching he is arrested and spends a night in the cells without a blanket on a cold night. Released the next morning he asks to see an Inspector in order to complain, is thrown out unceremoniously and when he dares to return he winds up in a psychiatric hospital. It's difficult to know what the French Tourist Board would make of Manu Cau's film but it is certainly food for thought with top-of-the-line performances from Melki and Kiberlain, as you would expect. In fact everyone in this Kafkaesque world turns in fine performances though it's hard to envisage a target audience - it played at the London Film Festival but so far has no English distributor unlike some others that are already playing in London or will open tomorrow or in the next few weeks. My advice: Catch it if you can.