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 Film poster | |
| Directed by | Nicole Garcia |
| Written by | Frédéric Bélier-Garcia Jacques Fieschi Nicole Garcia |
| Produced by | Alain Attal |
| Starring | Jean-Pierre Bacri |
| Cinematography | Stéphane Fontaine |
| Edited by | Emmanuelle Castro |
| Music by | Amélie de Chassey Delphine Mathieu |
| Distributed by | Mars Distribution |
Release date |
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Running time | 140 minutes |
| Country | France |
| Language | French |
| Budget | $7.8 million |
| Box office | $8.8 million[1] |
Charlie Says (French: Selon Charlie) is a 2006 French drama film. It was entered into the 2006 Cannes Film Festival.[2]
Plot
[edit]At the end of the school day, 11 year-old Charlie is collected by his father Serge, and they go to an isolated house where Serge has an assignation with his mistress. Silently Charlie plays outside with his boomerang. Pierre is a natural sciences teacher in the collège which Charlie attends; he is perturbed by the appearance of Matthieu, an old colleague. Now a famous archeologist, Mattieu is due to give a series of lectures about a pre-historic hunter (named 'Dirk') who suddenly left his tribe. Local mayor Jean-Louis Bertagnat officiates with great ceremony, albeit clumsily. He later finds relief with his mistress, a young municipal worker. Meanwhile, Joss, who is out on parole, is preparing a new job. Matthieu offers Pierre a place on his expedition but Pierre hesitates. When school closes, Charlie guides him to the isolated house where Pierre finds his wife with Serge. During this time Joss has messed up his robbery and is desperately trying to rid himself of a stolen television. The mayor has noticed all this from the place on the beach he uses for his trysts where, in mid break up, he'd come to reflect. Making his escape Joss is knocked out by Charlie's boomerang. Finally his witness gets Joss off the hook. Pierre decides to stay with his wife. Charlie manages to reconcile his parents. Jean-Louis ultimately goes back to his young lover.[3]
Cast
[edit]- Jean-Pierre Bacri as Jean-Louis Bertagnat
- Vincent Lindon as Serge
- Benoît Magimel as Pierre
- Benoît Poelvoorde as Joss
- Patrick Pineau as Mathieu
- Arnaud Valois as Adrien
- Ferdinand Martin as Charlie, son of Serge
- Minna Haapkylä as Nora
- Sophie Cattani as Séverine
- Philippe Lefebvre as Pierre-Yves
- Philippe Magnan as Ricordi
- Samir Guesmi as Mo
- Jérôme Robart as Ballhaus
- Valérie Benguigui as Charlie's mother
- Grégoire Leprince-Ringuet as Thierry
- Jean-Louis Foulquier as the bar manager
Background
[edit]The script-writer Frédéric Bélier-Garcia summed up the film as a film about "a contemporary idea of destiny... being none other than that which essentially we wish to avoid, but which catches up with us, overtakes us and finishes face to face - a perilous but vital game between what we are fleeing and what incessantly catches up with us".[4] Télérama, noting Nicole Garcia's preference for 'films choraux' (Hyperlink cinema), where characters criss-cross, whom she views with undeniable tenderness, and through which she underlines the difficulty in communication between individuals, rather than their potential fraternity.[5]
References
[edit]- ^ "Selon Charlie (2006) - JPBox-Office".
- ^ "Festival de Cannes: Charlie Says". festival-cannes.com. Archived from the original on 2011-08-22. Retrieved 2009-12-13.
- ^ Résumé for Selon Charlie (2005) Nicole Garcia from the Ciné-ressources website accessed 1 December 2024
- ^ Interview with Frédéric Bélier-Garcia , Dossier de presse, Selon Charlie. Mars Distribution - Le Cercle Noir pour Silenzio.
- ^ Selon Charlie - Film de Nicole Garcia (France, 2006) - Télérama website accessed 8 December 2024.
External links
[edit]- Charlie Says at IMDb
- Charlie Says at unifrance.org
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