Five years after their summer together in Barcelona, Xavier, William, Wendy, Martine and Isabelle reunite.
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| Romain Duris | ... | Xavier Rousseau | |
| Kelly Reilly | ... | Wendy | |
| Audrey Tautou | ... | Martine | |
| Cécile de France | ... | Isabelle (as Cécile De France) | |
| Kevin Bishop | ... | William | |
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Evguenya Obraztsova | ... | Natacha |
| Irene Montalà | ... | Neus | |
| Gary Love | ... | Edward | |
| Lucy Gordon | ... | Celia Shelburn | |
| Aïssa Maïga | ... | Kassia | |
| Martine Demaret | ... | Mère Xavier | |
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Pierre Cassignard | ... | Platane |
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Olivier Saladin | ... | Gérard |
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Pierre Gérald | ... | Grand-père |
| Zinedine Soualem | ... | M. Boubaker | |
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Xavier is now thirty. No longer a student, he is not yet a well-balanced, fulfilled adult either. His career is unsatisfying: Far from being the renowned novelist he aimed to be he must be content with little jobs such as reporter or ghost writer. His greatest "achievement" in "literature" is his collaboration to the script of a corny TV soap! His sentimental life is not much better, rhythmed by one night stands and unfinished romances. It looks as if when he seduces a woman beautiful outside and inside such as Kassia or Wendy he can't keep them. Will he ever bring his life into focus? Written by Guy Bellinger
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Release Date:
15 June 2005 (France) See more »Also Known As:
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Budget:
$12,500,000 (estimated)Opening Weekend:
$3,655,720 (France), 17 June 2005Opening Weekend USA:
$16,512, 14 May 2006, Limited ReleaseGross USA:
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Xavier: It's not for my girlfriend? I don't have a girlfriend.
Kassia: What's this girl who's not your girlfriend like?
Xavier: She's a little shorter than you. She has smaller... I mean... I think she's a size one or two.
Kassia: It depends. Is she thinner than I am? Is she like that girl?
Kassia: No.
[looks around]
Xavier: She's more like her. But not as ugly.
Kassia: Take the two. Your girlfriend can always exchange it. The register's over there.
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The man knocking on the toilets door while Xavier is inside is the director of the movie. See more »Goofs
In the stylized sequence in which Xavier imagines he is following Célia in the "Street with Perfect Proportions," the shadows don't match: The shots on Celia show almost no shadows, but in shots on Xavier, the street is almost completely in shadows. See more »Quotes
Kassia: What's your girlfriend like?Xavier: It's not for my girlfriend? I don't have a girlfriend.
Kassia: What's this girl who's not your girlfriend like?
Xavier: She's a little shorter than you. She has smaller... I mean... I think she's a size one or two.
Kassia: It depends. Is she thinner than I am? Is she like that girl?
Kassia: No.
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Kassia: Take the two. Your girlfriend can always exchange it. The register's over there.
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Russian Dolls (2005)
You have to like such an inventive, fast, witty, and all the same convincing movie. This is funny in that fast, off the wall way "Amelie" was funny, though here I think it gets another level of complexity that not only makes you pay attention, but rewards your attention.
Leading man Romain Duris is subtle and charming (and what American girls would call "cute"), and he the thread through time in a long multi-tasking flashback with lots of editing and framing liberties. He seems to fall in love but not know what love is. He is a struggling writer who finds enough success to work on scripts that also become part of the movie. Though we start firmly in Paris, the story takes us many times to London, and to Russia, which makes for a tale of four cities in the best way.
The whole cast is pretty amazing, both comic and touching and convincing at the same time. People are chic and cool but flawed and quirky, too. And the cast is large, with a final party scene that brings most of them together (and for a little too long). It's a love story, and a good one.