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PRODUCTION TEAM
Director :
Michel Blanc
Script :
Michel Blanc. D'apr�s le roman / Based on the novel: Summer Things / Vacances anglaises. De / By: Jo
Photography :
Sean Bobbitt
Editor :
Maryline Monthieux
Cast :
Charlotte Rampling, Jacques Dutronc, Carole Bouquet, Michel Blanc, Karin Viard, Denis Podalyd�s, Clotilde Courau, Vincent Elbaz, Lou Doillon, Sami Bouajila, Gaspard Ulliel, M�lanie Laurent, Matthieu B
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SEE HOW THEY RUN
Trendy, stressed-out Elisabeth lives with her rich, businessman husband Bertrand. Next door live V�ro and J�r�me, whose house is on the market and who are so broke they don't know whether they can afford the tuition for their teenage son Lo�c. Elisabeth has them over for dinner with her friend Julie, a single mother who was left stranded by the father of her child. By the end of the evening they've all decided to vacation together in Elisabeth's childhood hometown by the sea. Bertrand seizes the opportunity to duck out of the trip, claiming work as an excuse. Meanwhile, his daughter �milie will be spending her first vacation away from her parents, in Chicago, with "a girlfriend" who turns out to be one of her father's employees, Kevin. In an attempt to save face because they can't afford the hotel, V�ro and J�r�me claim to have rented a luxurious villa, when they are actually staying in a grungy trailer park with their son, who has to bear the constant bickering. As Elisabeth and Julie settle into their suite with Julie's insufferable baby daughter, other guests are checking in: Lulu and her compulsively jealous husband, Jean-Pierre, and Maxime, an inveterate womanizer with a wife back home. Meanwhile, in Chicago �milie is initiating Kevin into drugs and videotaped sex, and in Paris Bertrand is in bed with his lover, an Asian hermaphrodite barely older than his daughter. The fun has only begun...
Michel Blanc
Born in Courbevoie in 1952, Michel Blanc emerged as one of France's top comedy stars in the '70s through his appearances with the company of the Splendid, a Second City-ish troupe in Paris that spawned many of the comic stars of contemporary French, theatre, television and cinema. Among his better-known screen roles are those of TENUE DE SOIR�E (directed by Bertrand Blier, 1986), MONSIEUR HIRE (Patrice Leconte, 1989) and MERCI LA VIE (Blier, 1991). He made his directorial debut in 1984 with MARCHE � L'OMBRE, followed in the '90s by GROSSE FATIGUE (1993) and MAUVAISE PASSE (1998).
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