Peut-être

Peut-être
Directed by Cédric Klapisch
Produced by Aïssa Djambri
Farid Lahoussa
Manuel Munz
Written by Santiago Amigorena
Alexis Galmot
Cédric Klapisch
Starring Jean-Paul Belmondo
Romain Duris
Géraldine Pailhas
Julie Depardieu
Emmanuelle Devos
Bass Dhem
Léa Drucker
Hélène Fillières
Dominique Frot
Mathieu Genet
Distributed by Vertigo Productions
Release date(s) 1999
Running time 109 min.
Language French
Budget About FRF 75,000,000

Peut-être (Maybe; Perhaps) is a 1999 French science fiction comedy film.[1] Directed by Cédric Klapisch with a budget of 75 million franc, the film runs for 109 minutes.[2] It featured Romain Duris, Jean-Paul Belmondo, Géraldine Pailhas, Julie Depardieu, Riton Liebman and Vincent Elbaz. The film premiered at a Buck Rogers-themed New Years Eve party.[3]

Synopsis

After having sex with his girlfriend Lucie (Pailhas) in a bathroom, Arthur (Duris) discovers that a ceiling panel is a time portal to the Paris in the future, although it appears more like a sun-baked desert city by that point. There he meets an old man named Ako (Belmondo) who turns out to be Arthur's son. Ako attempts to persuade Arthur to impregnate Lucie so that he can exist in this future.[3]

References

  1. ^ Staff (2004). The Scarecrow Movie Guide. Seattle: Sasquatch Books. p. 322. ISBN 1570614156. 
  2. ^ Mazdon, Lucy (2001). France on film: reflections on popular French cinema. Film Studies. Wallflower Press. p. 95. ISBN 1903364086. 
  3. ^ a b Crow, Jonathan. "Peut-etre (1999)". The New York Times. http://movies.nytimes.com/movie/184382/Peut-etre/overview. Retrieved 2011-03-11. 

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