The Day I Saw Your Heart (2011) Et soudain tout le monde me manque (original title)

Director:

Jennifer Devoldère

Writers:

Romain Lévy (collaboration)
Jennifer Devoldère
(more)

Release Date:

20 April 2011 (Belgium)

Genre:

Comedy | Drama

Plot Keywords:

Art Gallery | Ex Boyfriend | Heart Disease | Jew | Loss Of Father

Awards:

2 wins

Cast

Mélanie Laurent	...	Justine Dhrey
Michel Blanc	...	Eli Dhrey
Florence Loiret Caille	...	Dom Dhrey
Claude Perron	...	Suzanne Dhrey
Guillaume Gouix	...	Sami
Sébastien Castro	...	Bertrand
Géraldine Nakache	...	Cécilia
Manu Payet	...	Atom
Karina Beuthe	...	Kirsten
Jean-Yves Roan	...	Docteur Katz
Romain Lévy	...	Alex
Alexandre Steiger	...	Mathias
Habibur Rahman	...	Mahboob
Assane Seck	...	Malik
Achille Ndari	...	Jeff
Samir de Luca	...	Seb
Luce Mouchel	...	Docteur Carlier
Gisèle Torterolo	...	La psy
Xavier Goulard	...	Le cardiologue
Arnaud Lemort	...	Le vendeur magasin de golf
Jeanne Ferron	...	La dame-pipi
Valérie Flan	...	La voisine de table
Jean-Christophe Clément	...	Le mari de la voisine de table
Nicolas Chupin	...	Le vendeur Starbucks
Indiana Rhazal	...	La vendeuse Starbucks
Françoise Vallon	...	Sandrine
Camille Chamoux	...	Camille
Danièle Cohen	...	L'infirmière maternité
Malik Bentalha	...	Comédien stand-up 1
Kev Adams	...	Comédien stand-up 2
Eric Delva	...	Médecin accoucheur
Daniel Cohen	...	Le rabbin Youchnovski
rest of cast listed alphabetically:
Claude Sese	...	Joe (as Claude Sesé)

Directed by
Jennifer Devoldère

Writing credits (in alphabetical order)
Jennifer Devoldère
Romain Lévy		collaboration
Cécile Sellam		collaboration

Produced by
Aïssa Djabri	....	producer
Farid Lahouassa	....	producer
Denis Penot	....	executive producer

Original Music by
Nathan Johnson

Cinematography by
Laurent Tangy

Film Editing by
Stéphane Pereira

Casting by
Emmanuelle Prévost

Production Design by
Hervé Gallet

Costume Design by
Emmanuelle Youchnovski		(as Emmanuelle Youchnowski)

Makeup Department
Suzel Bertrand	....	makeup department head

Production Management
Varujan Gumusel	....	post-production manager

Second Unit Director or Assistant Director
Emilie Cherpitel	....	first assistant director
Vincent Verdier	....	second assistant director

Art Department
Vincent Amiel	....	construction coordinator
Jérôme Billa	....	set dresser
Anne Delepoulle	....	assistant property master
Benoît Herlin	....	property master
Baptiste Magis	....	second assistant art director
Galien Malferiol	....	carpenter
Uriel Zylberman	....	assistant property master

Sound Department
Pascal Armant	....	sound recordist
Rym Debbarh-Mounir	....	sound editor
Julien Gonnord	....	second sound assistant
Damien Guillaume	....	assistant sound editor
Arthur Le Roux	....	boom operator
Guillaume Leriche	....	foley engineer
Jean-Alexandre Villemer	....	sound recordist
Jérôme Wiciak	....	sound re-recording mixer
Jérôme Wiciak	....	supervising sound editor

Special Effects by
Alain Carsoux	....	special effects supervisor

Visual Effects by
Jerome Auliac	....	digital compositor
Alain Carsoux	....	visual effects director
Florian Chauvet	....	visual effects coordinator
Stephane Dittoo	....	visual effects supervisor
Adrien Garcia	....	digital compositor
David Gourmaud	....	visual effects editor
Aurélien Grand	....	retouch and restoration
Julien Lasson	....	digital compositor
Sergeï Lourié	....	senior digital compositor
Christophe Lucotte	....	visual effects
Emilia Napame	....	digital compositor
Vincent Perzo	....	digital compositor
Joel Pinto	....	digital compositor
Sebastien Rame	....	digital compositor
Laurent Ripoll	....	visual effects editor
Aurore Rousset	....	animator

Camera and Electrical Department
Loïc Andrieu	....	additional steadicam operator
Simon Chanvillard	....	third assistant camera
Pierre Antoine Conan	....	gaffer
Raphaël Creton	....	still photographer
Nicolas Dollander	....	steadicam operator
Fabien Faure	....	second assistant camera
Guillaume Lemerle	....	electrician
Alexandre Levi	....	electrician
Alexandre Léglise	....	additional focus puller
Pierre-Alain Mainguy	....	grip
Benjamin Moreau	....	electrician
Mathieu Plainfosse	....	first assistant camera
Benjamin Rame	....	grip
Benjamin Renaud	....	key grip
Yannick Ressigeac	....	first assistant camera

Casting Department
Anne Barbier	....	extras casting
Emmanuelle Prévost	....	casting

Editorial Department
Jerome Brechet	....	dailies color grader
Arnaud Caréo	....	on-line editor
Xavier Desjours	....	dailies color grader
Natacha Louis	....	colorist
Sahra Mekki	....	first assistant editor
Julien Whaley	....	editorial trainee

Music Department
Hideaki Aomori	....	musician: bass clarinet
Clarice Jensen	....	musician: cello
Nathan Johnson	....	musician
Nathan Johnson	....	score producer
Valérie Lindon	....	music supervisor
Ryan Lott	....	orchestrator
Colin Meyer	....	musician (drums)
Rob Moose	....	musician (violin)
Jonny Rogers	....	musician: tuned wine glasses
Nadia Sirota	....	musician (viola)
Eric Dawson Tate	....	music recordist
Eric Dawson Tate	....	score mixer
Maura Valenti	....	musician: harp
Ben Wolfe	....	musician: bass
Ymusic	....	musician

Other crew
Lysiane Biagini	....	location scout
Justine Gaillard	....	assistant script supervisor
Gianni Manno	....	end credits designer
Lisa-Nina Rives	....	script supervisor

Production Companies

• Vertigo (as Vertigo Productions)
• TF1 Droits Audiovisuels (co-production)
• Union Générale Cinématographique (UGC) (co-production)
• TF1 Films Production (co-production)
• TPS Star (participation)
• CinéCinéma (participation)
• Soficinéma 7 (in association with)
• Région Ile-de-France (support)

Distributors

• Film Movement (2012) (USA) (theatrical)
• Earth Star Entertainment (2011) (Japan) (DVD)

Also Known As:

"Et soudain tout le monde me manque" - France (original title)

Runtime:

France:98 min

Country:

France

Language:

French

Color:

Color

Aspect Ratio:

1.85 : 1

Sound Mix:

Dolby Digital

Certification:

Switzerland:7 (canton of Geneva) | Switzerland:7 (canton of Vaud) | USA:Not Rated

Company:

Vertigo

Soundtrack:

Suddenly

A fine French comedy

*** This review may contain spoilers ***

This French movie was directed by Jennifer Devoldère, and co-written by Jennifer Devoldère, Romain Lévy, and Cécile Sellam. They hit the nail right on the head.

Mélanie Laurent stars as Justine and Michel Blanc stars as Justine's father, Eli Dhrey. Eli has two daughters; Justine is single but has a long line of exes, and Dom (played by Florence Loiret Caille) is married. I've lost track of what happened to their mother, but Eli has remarried to the younger Suzanne (played by Claude Perron). It's Eli's 60th birthday, and Suzanne and he announce that she's pregnant. The daughters are shocked, particularly Justine.

The movie is about Justine and her relationship (or lack thereof) with her father. For some reason, he befriends all her ex-boyfriends, taking two into business with him without her knowledge, playing golf regularly with a third, and keeping in contact with several others. Yet he has shown no interest in her and little interest in Dom. Eli tells Justine's latest ex that he has no interest in children, so we have some concern about his coming child.

We see Justine meeting a new soon-to-be-ex, and Eli tries to befriend him but fails. Justine is an x-ray technician, and the new boyfriend, Sami (Guillaume Gouix), comes to see her for a possible injury to his shoulder. She x-rays his entire body and tapes the films to her window at home. Her father sees the films and goes to her for his own x-ray, and she discovers a problem with his heart. Hence the American title to the movie, and a non-too subtle reference to Eli's having shown no heart to Justine for her entire life. (She remembers bitterly his critical comments on a drawing she did at age three.)

One of the good things about the movie is that Blanc's Eli is basically a nice guy who is (a) misunderstood and (b) really doesn't care much for kids but in a casual way. Eli has a sense of humor that his family doesn't get, so some of his apparently heartless comments are just his attempt at humor. But he remains affable throughout all the misunderstandings, reaching out to Justine's exes that he works with for help and understanding. So for his daughters (and maybe his wife), he's a heartless monster at home, but he's a nice guy and true friend to Justine's exes. Those of us outside his family like Eli despite his shortcomings.

This is a French comedy, and it's carried off very well. It has enough drama and humanity to make it meaningful instead of fluff, but the humor carries the day.