Actrices

Actrices (English: Actresses) is a French comedy-drama film directed by Valeria Bruni Tedeschi, released in 2007. The film was presented in the official selection at the 60th Cannes Film Festival and won a Prix Spécial du Jury in the Un Certain Regard section.

Plot

Marcelline is an actress, haunted by Natalia Petrovna, the heroine of the Turgenev play A Month in the Country, that she is rehearsing, with a lot of trouble. To escape her torments she goes to the swimming pool, and swims, and listens to Glenn Miller.

At 40, she is unmarried, lives only for the theatre, and realises she will probably never have children, which heightens her anguish. She looks to communicate with those around her - living or dead: the Virgin Mary, the protecting ghost of her father seated on the family sofa, the mischievous phantom of her lover perched in a tree. She laughs and cries in turn, a nothing perturbs her, a look from her mother, or simply a kiss from the young lead in the play she is acting in.

Cast

• Valeria Bruni Tedeschi as Marcelline
• Noémie Lvovsky as Nathalie
• Louis Garrel as Éric
• Mathieu Amalric as Denis
• Valeria Golino as Nathalia Petrovna
• Marisa Borini as la mère
• Maurice Garrel as le père
• Simona Marchini as la tante
• Bernard Nissille as Jean-Paul
• Olivier Rabourdin as Marc
• Laetitia Spigarelli as Juliett
• Gilles Cohen as Jean-Luc
• Marie Rivière as la costumière
• Frank Demules as le barman
• Souz Chirazi as la gynécologue
• Anne Barry as la dame dans la rue
• Arthur Igual as le moniteur de natation
• Eric Elmosnino as Raymond
• Robinson Stévenin as Julien
• Laurent Grévill as Arthur
• Pascal Bongard as le prêtre
• Brian Mac Cormack as le professeur d'anglais

References

External links

• Actrices at the Internet Movie Database