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BETTY FISCHER ET AUTRES HISTOIRES
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France - Canada 2001 / 35 mm / Color / 100 min. | |||
This psychological thriller tells the story of two worlds colliding: the world of Betty, a successful young novelist, who lives happily with her young son Joseph, and that of Carole, who works as a waitress in a shopping mall bar a few blocks away and barely cares for her unwanted son Jos�. These two worlds meet when Margot, Betty's somewhat disturbed mother, suddenly bursts back into her daughter's life after a long absence. When Joseph dies after falling out of a window, Betty retreats into a benumbed existence fuelled by tranquilizers. Margot finds a strange way to show her love to her daughter -- she brings her a new child the same age as Joseph, the abused and abandoned Jos�. Shortly thereafter, Betty reads in the newspaper that Jos� had been kidnapped. What is she to do? Thus begins a suspenseful hunt which shatters the lives of these three women and those of the men around them. |
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| Script: Sylvie Koechlin. D'apr�s le roman/Based on the novel: The Tree of Hands. De/By: Ruth Rendell. Phot.: Christophe Pollock. Ed.: V�ronique Lange. Mus.: Fran�ois Dompierre. Cast: Sandrine Kiberlain, Nicole Garcia, Mathilde Seigner, Luck Mervil, Yves Jacques. Prod.: Yves Marmion, UGC YM, 24, avenue Charles-de-Gaulle, 92522 Neuilly-sur-Seine (France), t�l.: (01) 46 40 45 68, fax: (01) 46 37 73 21 / Annie Miller, Les Films de la Boissi�re, 1, quai Gabriel-P�ri, 94345 Joinville-le-Pont (France), t�l.: (01) 45 11 27 27, fax: (01) 45 11 29 78, e-mail: [email protected] / Nicole Robert, Go Films, 1435, rue de Bleury, 6e �tage, Montr�al, Qu�bec H3A 2H7 (Canada), t�l.: (514) 844-0271, fax: (514) 844-9127, e-mail: [email protected]. Sales: France T�l�vision Distribution, 1, boul. Victor, 75015 Paris (France), t�l.: (01) 44 25 01 01, fax: (01) 44 25 01 07. Canadian Distributor: Alliance Atlantis Vivafilm. | |||
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Claude Miller Born in Paris in 1942, Claude Miller apprenticed with Jean-Luc Godard and Fran�ois Truffaut, among others, before launching his own career as a director, beginning with a 1967 short, Juliet dans Paris. Since then, his feature directing credits include: LA MEILLEURE FA�ON DE MARCHER (1975), DITES-LUI QUE JE L'AIME (1977), GARDE � VUE (1981), MORTELLE RANDONN�E (1982) L'EFFRONT�E (1985), LA PETITE VOLEUSE (1989, Louis Delluc prize), L'ACCOMPAGNATRICE (1992), LE SOURIRE (1994), LA CLASSE DE NEIGE (1998, Cannes Film Festival jury prize), LA CHAMBRE DES MAGICIENNES (2000, winner of the critics' prize at the Berlin Festival). |