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PRODUCTION TEAM
Director :
Jean-Marc Barr, Pascal Arnold
Script :
Pascal Arnold, Jean-Marc Barr
Photography :
Pascal Arnold
Editor :
Brian Schmitt
Cast :
Romain Duris, �lodie Bouchez, Jean-Marc Barr, Isabelle Candelier
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BEING LIGHT
Maxime Lecocq, 25, arrives in Paris, a city he doesn't know, with one objective in mind... to join up with the woman he loves in India. Sensitive and impulsive, he ends up in the bar of the Hotel Raphael. There he meets a rich American businessman, Jack Lesterhoof, who asks Maxime to serve as a translator at a business meeting the following day. Maxime accepts. A friendship grows between the two men and Maxime provokes strange happenings. He has the gift of intuition: he can read people's minds and he can't help communicating his thoughts and feelings. Jack is profoundly shaken by Maxime's demanding presence. So much so that he decides to drop everything in his own life and accompany Maxime to India. Jack is counting on this trip to redirect his life, to put it on the path to some kind of inner peace, something that he had ignored until now. However, before they can leave, Maxime's past catches up with him. His sister finds him. It seems Jack has escaped from an institution. The two friends leave anyway and soon find themselves in India, a land of incredible contrasts. Maxime finds his beloved Justine but is surprised to learn that she has become a nun. Jack, meanwhile, is confronted by the emptiness of his illusions and his inability to find the spirituality he was seeking. Maxime and Jack ultimately end up "being light", without illusions, on the edge of life, in an illuminated disenchantment.
Jean-Marc Barr, Pascal Arnold
August 23, 2002 • 21:30:00 • PARISIEN • P2.23.6 •
August 24, 2002 • 14:00:00 • PARISIEN • P2.24.3 •
August 25, 2002 • 16:30:00 • PARISIEN • P2.25.4 •
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