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| Élodie Bouchez | ... | Isabelle 'Isa' Tostin | |
| Natacha Régnier | ... | Marie Thomas | |
| Grégoire Colin | ... | Chriss | |
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Patrick Mercado | ... | Charly |
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Francine Massenhave | ... | La gardienne |
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Zivko Niklevski | ... | Le patron Yougoslave |
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Murielle Colvez | ... | Le chef d'atelier |
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Lyazid Ouelhadj | ... | Le vendeur de billets |
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Frédérique Hazard | ... | La mère de Marie |
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Jean-Michel Lemayeux | ... | L'interne |
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Louise Motte | ... | Sandrine Val |
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Rosa Maria | ... | La première infirmière |
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Corinne Masiero | ... | La femme du Hollywood |
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Xavier Denamur | ... | L'homme des patins |
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In Lille, two penniless young women with few prospects become friends. Isa moves in with Marie, who's flat-sitting for a mother and child in hospital in comas following a car crash. Isa is out-going, unskilled, with hopes of moving south to warmer climes. Marie usually is either angry or detached. Then, while Isa begins to visit the child in whose flat they live, going to hospital to read to her, Marie slowly falls for a rich youth. At first Marie keeps him at bay, then she not only pursues him, she begins to dream he is her life's love. When Isa tries to warn Marie, their friendship flounders. How will Marie handle the inevitable? And once they lose the flat, where will they go? Written by <jhailey@hotmail.com>
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northern france | lille france | friendship between women | roommate relationship | homelessness |Genres:
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16 September 1998 (France) See more »Also Known As:
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Opening Weekend USA:
$59,333, 4 April 1999, Limited ReleaseGross USA:
$1,726,187, 1 August 1999Company Credits
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Marie Thomas: I'll send you a photo.
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Written by Yann Tiersen
Performed by Claire Pichet
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In a May 2006 article for the medical journal Neurology, Dr. Eelco Wijdicks concluded that this was one of only two films to accurately depict the state of a comatose patient and the agony of those waiting for the patient to awake. The other film was Reversal of Fortune (1990). See more »Quotes
Isa: I'd like to see you when you realize that you need other people.Marie Thomas: I'll send you a photo.
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Featured in Siskel & Ebert: The Matrix/10 Things I Hate About You/Cookie's Fortune/The Out-of-Towners/The Dreamlife of Angels (1999) See more »Soundtracks
Rue des Cascades(film version)
Written by Yann Tiersen
Performed by Claire Pichet
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"Dreamlife of Angels" is an absorbing film about two young French women struggling to find their place in life. Both are solidly working class, unskilled and rootless. Circumstance has thrown them together and the film describes a two-month period as they housesit the apartment of a car accident victim. Their prospects are not great, and each deals with the hand life has dealt them very differently.
This is not an uplifting movie, but not a downer either. It tells it's story straight up and unflinchingly. Everything about it is top drawer; the screenplay, the directing and especially the acting by the two young leads, Elodie Bouchez and Natacha Regnier. We'll definitely see more them in the future. This movie is highly recommended.