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Les Sœurs Fâchées (2004)
DIRECTOR: Alxandra Leclère
CAST: Catherine Frot; François Berléand; Brigitte Catillon
SYNOPSIS
Louise, is a charming woman, disconcerting,
natural, and touching awkward. She is an beatician and lives
in province. Martine, her sister, beautiful and aloof, lives
in
the Parisian
upper middle class. Louise has written a novel and on Monday,
she will go for an important appointment in Paris, which could
change the course of her life. She comes to spend three days
with her sister Martine. During three days, Louise and her
obvious happiness exasperate Martine at the most point, and
set her life in glares. (download: press
kit; poster)
NOTE
I first saw the film at 2005's
Rendez-Vous with French Cinema in New York City (March 18,
2005). - FORUM
QUOTE
Alxandra Leclère
People and their feelings interest me. I don't think of being able to invent the stories, I like what is real, felt, implied. I observed much since years and I now like to retranscript it. To me, writing and directing is seemingly a wonderful way to express. (>more)
Isabelle Huppert
Alexandra told me that the role of Martine was written for me and that's the reason why she insisted. From the first reading, I immediately felt that this role existed and it was good. Even if many points still need to be refined - this is a first script and a first film - the tone was there.(>more)
Isabelle Huppert
"Au-Delà Des Tabous", Elle N°3045, le 10 mai 2004
I very much like to play a sister.... one never stop being one. This is a real first film, the director only directed one short. Alexandra didn't go to film school, was never an assistant. An atypical progress, which proves that the cinema makes fire on any wood. One can nourrish one's films from theory and reference, or start from one's own history since always. Concerning the cinema, I believe that experience doesn't bring anything. (more)
Catherine Frot
My agent sent me the script. I was immediately attracted to
the honest opposition between two sisters, their two worlds.
Two sisters related by childhood no longer have things in
common excepts their roots. The contact with Aleandra Leclère
made me like to engage myself, and also the idea of being
a sister of Isabelle Huppert. (>more)
François Berléand
As for the scene in bed with Isabelle, she is incrediable!
This is what I like much, close to "one lying in pyjama!" One
sees nothing! But it's much more powerful like this. (>more)
AWARD
The 45th Thessaloniki Film Festival, where Isabelle receives her Honored Award for the sum her works. Isabelle picks up the film for the honoring screening. November 21, 2004
TRIVIA
Isabelle goes back to a comedy
after the success of 8 Femmes.
It was in front of the school where Isabelle was waiting for
her youngest son off, that she encountered the director Alexandra
Leclère, who proposed a role to her and she accepted.
This Martine, the older
sister of Les Sœurs Fâchées,
becomes Isabelle's 74th personnage in cinema. It's Alexandra
Leclère's first feature length film.
François Berléand knows Isabelle since they were about 12 year old. They used to go to the same beach at Saint-Jean-de-Luz and played together. Mixed with this personal approach, he is always impressed by looking at her playing.
Isabelle Huppert shares
9% of the movie's sale in the foreign market (Figero,
Feb.21, 2004); It's said she was paid for
220, 000 Euro;
Catherine Frot, 228,000 Euro.
REVIEW
A
Showcase for Huppert at her best, Screen Daily,
November 29, 2004
"Me and My
Sister",
Variety, December 2, 2004
"Vous êtes
fâchées ou quoi?",
Premiere, decembre 2004
Entertien
avec Alexandra Leclère et Catherine Frot,
Abus de Cinema, decembre 2004
"Quand
la soeur des champs rend visite à la soeur des villes",
Le Monde, decembre 22 2004
"Et ta soeur?",
Le Nouvel Obs, decembre 22, 2004
"Isabelle
Huppert et Catherine Frot se croisent", Le Temps,
decembre 22, 2004
Frot Devant!, Paris Match N 2901, 12-19 decmbre 2004
Isabelle
Huppert, l'art delicat des compositions cruelles,
Tribune de Geneve, 23 dec. 2004
Une
fausse comedie portee par un duo epatant, Télérama
n° 2867, 25 décembre 2004
Les
Soeurs Fachees, DVD Times, Jan. 2005
Duo dissonant...
au niveau du casting, Le Matin (Ma), le 15
mars 2005
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