Alain Moreau sings for one of the few remaining dance-bands in Clermont-Ferrand. Though something of an idol amongst his female audience he has a melancholic awareness of the slow ...
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Title: Quand j'étais chanteur (2006)
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| Gérard Depardieu | ... | Alain Moreau | |
| Cécile de France | ... | Marion | |
| Mathieu Amalric | ... | Bruno | |
| Christine Citti | ... | Michèle | |
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Patrick Pineau | ... | Daniel |
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Christophe | ... | Christophe |
| Jean-Pierre Gos | ... | Philippe Chevalier | |
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Antoine de Prekel | ... | Martin |
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Monique Gailleurd | ... | Organisateur Soirée |
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Alain Kruger | ... | Médecin |
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Patrick Bordier | ... | Responsable Palais |
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Jean-Paul Combes | ... | Patron Aquarius |
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Serge Godenaire | ... | Maitre d'hôtel |
| Marie Kremer | ... | Laurence | |
| Catherine Salviat | ... | Mme Laville | |
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Alain Moreau sings for one of the few remaining dance-bands in Clermont-Ferrand. Though something of an idol amongst his female audience he has a melancholic awareness of the slow disappearance of that audience and of his advancing years. He is completely knocked off balance when he meets strikingly attractive and much younger businesswoman Marion. She seems distant and apparently otherwise involved but soon shows quiet signs of reciprocating his interest. A brief dalliance turns into something much more complicated and he starts to employ - indeed monopolise - her services as an estate agent by announcing he suddenly must move house. Written by Jeremy Perkins {J-26}
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13 September 2006 (France) See more »Also Known As:
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If you heard the director in the extras, the movie is about the power of music to inspire, to heal, the heart of true artists.
Now, forget all this: the movie drags behind those expectations.
If French movies (unlike Americans) are much closer to the people, the big defect of our movies is that french writers (unlike Americans) have no imagination: hence, french movies is often people simply talking in a house and that's what really happens here as Cecile plays a realtor and his client, Gerard the singer, doesn't even care about houses: this is his way to have date with her.
Singing is treated with the same treachery.
In fact, it's more about the love of two depressive people and i realize that in that situation, their romance is also depressive. To cast Cecile is thus unfortunate because it extinguish her fire and smiles.
I won't comment the absurdity of their first night (so unreal that you cant believe their following romance) to keep the only good song that i discovered again thanks to the movie: "Je n'aurais pas le temps". It's a wonderful song about our mortality and the endless beauty of life, all that the movie isn't.