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Les Temps Qui Changent
- Runtime:
- 98 min.
- Year of Production:
- 2004
- Country:
- Frankreich
- Director:
- Cast:
- Catherine Deneuve
Gérard Depardieu
Gilbert Melki
Malik Zidi
Lubna Azabal
Tanya Lopert
Jabir Elomri
Nabila Baraka
Nadem Rachati - Production Company:
- Gemini Films
- Berlinale Section:
- Competition
- Berlinale Category:
- Feature Film
Antoine arrives in Tangiers from Europe. He is on an assignment to supervise the setting up of an audiovisual centre, his task being to expedite the process. However, Antoine is secretly hoping that he will find Cécile here. His quietly obsessive love for her has endured for more than thirty years. Cécile has forgotten Antoine. She emigrated to north Africa and has since endured the trials and tribulations of marital routine with Nathan, a doctor of Moroccan-Jewish extraction who is her junior in age. The couple have a son, Samy, who lives in Paris and comes to visit them during the holidays. The film takes place towards the end of the summer. Samy arrives at his parents’ house, bringing with him his partner, Nadia, and her child, whose father is unknown. Samy and Nadia are a chaste couple. Arming themselves, they protect each other from all manner of adversities in order to live out their various passions. Nadia has to learn to let go of her twin sister Aicha – and as a result finds herself embroiled in a bitter struggle against her inner demons. Samy has to learn to bring his affection for Bilal into accord with his tenderness for Nadia. Theirs is a little holiday world in which Cécile finds it impossible to find a balance. Experiencing nothing but restlessness and self-doubt, the familiar has become quite alien to her. Lonely, wealthy and unmolested by life’s storms, Antoine appears like a ghost from the past expressing his desire for a pure, unshakable ideal of love. Does being cloistered inside his gentle obsession make him invincible? What is this all about? It’s nothing but a dream, counters Cécile, the realist. But, who knows, perhaps this dream will, unwittingly, become reality.
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BIOGRAFIE André Téchiné
Born in Valence d’Agen, France in 1943, he wrote for the film magazine ‘Cahiers du Cinéma’ between 1964 and 1967 and then became assistant director to Jacques Rivette. He first began directing in Parisian theatre before becoming a screenwriter and film director at the beginning of the 1970s. His greatest successes include MA SAISON PRÉFERÉE (MY FAVORITE SEASON) and his multi-award- winning drama LES ROSEAUX SAUVAGES (WILD REEDS). He was most recently in the Berlinale Competition in 2007 with LES TÉMOINS (THE WITNESSES).
FILMOGRAFIE André Téchiné (selection)
2019 L'adieu à la nuit
2017 Nos années folles
2016 Quand on a 17 ans
2014 Quand on a 17 ans
2013 Tous les Garçons et les Filles de leur Age
2012 L'homme qu'on avait trop
2011 Impardonnables
2009 La fille du RER
2006 Les Témoins
2004 Les Temps Qui Changent
2003 Les Égarés
2001 Loin
1998 Alice et Martin
1994 Les Voleurs
1994 Les Roseaux Sauvages
1993 Ma Saison Préférée
1991 J'embrasse pas
1987 Les Innocents
1986 Le Lieu du Crime
1985 Rendez-vous
1983 La Matiouette
1981 Hotel des Amériques
1979 Les Coeurs Bronte
1976 Barocco
1975 Souvenir d'en France
1969 Paulina s'en va
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