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Official
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Allo
Cine |
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Filmming
Location |
2001.08-10
Grenoble, La Ciotat,
Nice and Paris,
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Date
Released
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2002.09.05
France
2004.03.05
USA |
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124,
626 in France |
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0000.00.00
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La Vie
Promise (2002)
DIRECTOR: Olivier Dahan
CAST: Pascal Greggory; Maud Forget
SYNOPSIS
Sylvia, prostituted
in Nice. She has a painful relation with her teenage daughter, Laurence.
Forced to escape, they launch out in a mare, trying to find Sylvia's first
husband. On the road they meet Joshua, a man in bail who determined not to
return to prison......
NOTE
Because of a background on music video and painting,
the director Olivier
Dahan shot the film in a very poetic way, visually beautiful landscape
and colorful flowers. The film is edited rather by the mood and moments than
the dramatic
plots.
It seemed not a pleasant experience to Isabelle
at the beginning, which can be told in some interviews made during the filmming,
(There's
No Gain Without Pain, The Times, November 1, 2001), but the director proved himself soon after that he was able
to catch all those nuances of Isabelle's performance. In film, she is more
beautiful than ever.
In an email that Olivier Dahan wrote to this site
in person (yes, he did after visiting the site), he said, "Isabelle is
simply a great actress that enough to have the wish to work with her. I
wanted to work with her because we are different, I wanted to change her look,
that I did. But the thing is that Isabelle is able to play any kind of
characteres."
The film received relatively cold reviews in France
as well as in San
Sebastien Film Festival, where the film is the official selection in competition. - FORUM
QUOTE
Olivier
Dahan
Studio
Magazine, September, 2002
From beginning I wanted a great actress for the role and I thought of Isabelle
very quickly. When I still hadn't got the script, I sent her a synopsis. She
liked it. It's simple since then!
Olivier Dahan
Official
Site in France, production note
I wanted to take her along in a role that she had never approached up to that
point. It is not an against-employment, nothing possible against-employment
with Isabelle, she is so protean. I wished to cast her in a character that
she would not need to be intelligent but liberal. Isabelle is astonishing.
Being often working by the frame, I am thus the privileged witness of all the
nuances of her performance, and yet I discovered with the assembly of negligible
subtleties which had escaped me. Small fundamental details for the bottom of
the character, a movement of glance, an epic of the hand... In spite of the
control of her play, Isabelle always has the concern of being absolutely credible.
She got along perfectly. She is Sylvia whom I had in the head.
Isabelle Huppert
"Ma vie d'actrice" by Thierry
Klifa
Studio N°181, September 2002
The most curious, somehow, is that Olivier Dahan saw me as maybe in 15 years
that I've completely forgot what I was.
Pascal Geoggory
"
Le Grand Greggory"
Les Inrocks, N°405, September 3-9, 2003
This is a good film. But for Isabelle Huppert, it's frankly the best of her
works in 15 years. I didn't know at first. But one day, I understood: this
is because she is in all perspectives. In spite a little missed in the film.
AWARD
Official Selection
of San Sebastian Film Festival in 2002
TRIVIA
For the second
time, Isabelle plays a mother of a teenage daughter (the first time was in
Ossayas's "Les
Destinees Sentementales"); wears blond hair since 1984's "Sac
de
Noeuds"
REVIEW
LES
DÉSAXÉS, from Ecrannoir, Auguest, 2002
les Confessions d'Une Actrice
Impudique, from Gala, Aug.27-Sept. 4, 2002
@Plume-noire.com
@objectif-cinema
@TF1.com (with
video interview)
La Vie Promise, Film Threat, November 21, 2003
"Pill-popping prostitute driven mad by...", The Village Voice, March 5-9, 2004
"Mother and Daughter, out look for hope", New York Times, March 5, 2004
"French fugitive lives "la vie" unrobed", New York Post, March 5, 2004
"France, not Hollywood, let actress fulfil 'promise", Star Ledger, March 5, 2004
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