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Title: The Witnesses (2007)
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| Credited cast: | |||
| Michel Blanc | ... | Adrien | |
| Emmanuelle Béart | ... | Sarah | |
| Sami Bouajila | ... | Mehdi | |
| Julie Depardieu | ... | Julie | |
| Johan Libéreau | ... | Manu | |
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Constance Dollé | ... | Sandra |
| Lorenzo Balducci | ... | Steve | |
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Alain Cauchi | ... | Sheriff |
| Rest of cast listed alphabetically: | |||
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David Barbas | ... | Medhi's colleague |
| Xavier Beauvois | ... | L'éditeur | |
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Satya Dusaugey | ... | Le prostitué |
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Raphaëline Goupilleau | ... | La mère de Julie et Manu |
| Jacques Nolot | ... | Le patron de l'hôtel | |
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Maïa Simon | ... | La mère de Sarah |
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Bertrand Soulier | ... | Doctor #1 |
June 1984 to June 1985, from happy days to war to summer's return. A middle-aged doctor in Paris, Adrien, meets Manu, a young gay man from the provinces who lives with his sister, an opera singer. Adrien likes Manu, loves him even, in a Platonic relationship. Sarah, a writer, and Mehdi, a vice-squad cop, have an infant. Sarah discovers she has no taste for parenthood. Adrien bring Manu to Sarah's country cabin where Mehdi saves Manu from drowning. Back in Paris, an affair begins as a plague descends on Parisian gays. There are tests, illness, anger, relief, separations, and death. A year later, these friends meet again at the summer place. They are witnesses to how happiness has changed. Written by <jhailey@hotmail.com>
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Overall, this movie was OK. The male lead actors all were very good and believable in their parts. The homosexuality was presented in a natural, matter-of-fact manner, instead of pedantic or problematic. The way the start of the aids era was captured was disturbing, but it seemed very realistic. There were some things in this movie that annoyed me however. First of all, the female characters. Depardieu is your typical withdrawn, a-sexual, artistic, female French cinema archetype. I can live with that though. Far more irritating was the presence of Beart, who was totally miscast. What is a blown-up plastic Barbie doll doing in a movie that is situated in the early eighties, when plastic surgery was not even properly born yet?? Her acting is (partly due to her renovated face) very flat and expressionless and it would have been better if she had been altogether left out. An other revealing mistake is the American guy/gay, who shows up in the last part of the movie; quite confusing when a character who is so proud of his multi-lingual talents has such a strong foreign accent when he speaks his mother tongue...