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A Flame in My Heart

Original title: Une flamme dans mon coeur
  • 1987
  • 1h 46m
IMDb RATING
6.4/10
268
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A Flame in My Heart (1987)
Drama

The painful ending of a love story binding an over-30-year-old woman and a North African, and the beginning and end of a relationship she also has with an "established" journalist she meets ... Read allThe painful ending of a love story binding an over-30-year-old woman and a North African, and the beginning and end of a relationship she also has with an "established" journalist she meets in the subway. The stories illustrate the absolute claim of a woman who can only understan... Read allThe painful ending of a love story binding an over-30-year-old woman and a North African, and the beginning and end of a relationship she also has with an "established" journalist she meets in the subway. The stories illustrate the absolute claim of a woman who can only understand love in terms of life and death, an attitude that generally makes love appear dramatic, ... Read all

  • Director
    • Alain Tanner
  • Writers
    • Myriam Mézières
    • Alain Tanner
  • Stars
    • Myriam Mézières
    • Benoît Régent
    • Azize Kabouche
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  • IMDb RATING
    6.4/10
    268
    YOUR RATING
    • Director
      • Alain Tanner
    • Writers
      • Myriam Mézières
      • Alain Tanner
    • Stars
      • Myriam Mézières
      • Benoît Régent
      • Azize Kabouche
    • 1User review
    • 7Critic reviews
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    Myriam Mézières
    Myriam Mézières
    • Mercédès
    Benoît Régent
    • Pierre
    Azize Kabouche
    • Johnny
    • (as Aziz Kabouche)
    André Marcon
    André Marcon
    • Etienne
    Douglas Ireland
    • L'ami américain
    Jean-Gabriel Nordmann
    • Le metteur en scène
    Biana
    • L'accessoiriste
    Jean-Yves Berteloot
    • Le comédien
    Anne Rucki
    • La pianiste
    • (uncredited)
    • Director
      • Alain Tanner
    • Writers
      • Myriam Mézières
      • Alain Tanner
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    • Quotes

      Mercédès: Are you going to love me?

      Pierre: I don't know. Maybe. We'll see. Yes, I think so. And you?

      Mercédès: Oh, yes.

      Pierre: How do you know?

      Mercédès: Because you kissed me between my legs.

    • Soundtracks
      Partita for solo violin Nº 2 in D minor, BWV 1004
      Composed by Johann Sebastian Bach

    User reviews1

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    9/10
    Fascinating, creepy story of sexual compulsion
    I saw this virtually unreleased film in the U.S. at a film festival and was both moved and compelled by this strange story of a woman's disintegration into madness and sex addiction. There's never been a character study like this. Apparently, the director and the actress wrote the film based on their own passed relationship and the painful honesty that it dramatizes makes it difficult to watch at times. Audiences often dismissed it as just another French sex film, but it examines the often deep recesses of the human personality with unflinching realism.
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    • Mar 23, 2000

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    Details

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    • Release date
      • June 3, 1987 (France)
    • Countries of origin
      • France
      • Switzerland
    • Official sites
      • Cinémathèque Suisse
      • Director's official site
    • Language
      • French
    • Also known as
      • Eine Flamme in meinem Herzen
    • Filming locations
      • Cairo, Egypt
    • Production companies
      • Garance
      • La Sept Cinéma
      • Filmograph S.A.
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    • Runtime
      1 hour 46 minutes
    • Color
      • Black and White
    • Sound mix
      • Mono
    • Aspect ratio
      • 1.66 : 1

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