Actrices - or the dream from the night before

Movie
German title	Actrices - or the dream from the night before
Original title	Actrices
Country of production	France
original language	French , Italian
Publishing year	2007
length	108 minutes
Age rating	FSK 6
Rod
Director	Valeria Bruni Tedeschi
script	Valeria Bruni Tedeschi Noémie Lvovsky Agnès de Sacy
production	Olivier Delbosc Marc Missonnier
camera	Jeanne Lapoirie
cut	Valeria Bruni Tedeschi Anne Weil
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Valeria Bruni Tedeschi : Marcelline Noémie Lvovsky : Nathalie Louis Garrel : Eric Mathieu Amalric : Denis Marisa Borini : mother Valeria Golino : Natalia Petrovna Maurice Garrel : father Bernard Nissile : Jean-Paul Olivier Rabourdin : Marc Laetitia Spirelli : Juliette Gilles Cohen : Jean-Luc Marie Rivière : costume designer Franck Demules : Bartender Souzan Chirazi : Gynecologist Anne Barry : Woman on the Street

Actrices - or the dream from the night before, is the second directorial work by Italian actress Valeria Bruni Tedeschi from 2007.

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Marcelline, a popular and critically acclaimed actress, is slated to play the lead role of Natalia Petrovna in Ivan Turgenev's play " A Month in the Country ". the director Denis keeps the troupe relentlessly on their toes and gives them only a few breaks. When her gynecologist points out, Marcelline only realizes that her 40th birthday is imminent. She wonders what she's already done in her life. Previously only living in the world of theater, she now realizes how unworldly she is. As a result, she gets into a deep crisis of meaning, as a result of which she can no longer distinguish between dream and reality.

Reviews

Esther Busse wrote in cut no. 50 that Valeria Bruni Tedeschi had “written a quirky role, whose neurotic clumsiness repeatedly leaves the defined framework of comedy and is looking for unpredictable forms of confrontation”.

Der Spiegel came to the conclusion that it is part of the great art “of this actress and director that she succeeds in making this self-centered, exaggerated diva appear sympathetic at the right moment.” Valeria Bruni-Tedeschi never takes herself too seriously , but instead create with “Actrices” an “ironic and at the same time sad self- and artist portrait, in which theater and life, reality and fiction can often no longer be kept apart [sic!]."

The “enchanting” Valeria Bruni Tedeschi indulge in the clichés and use the stereotypes, according to the Hamburger Abendblatt of April 17, 2008. In doing so, she likes “contrary to her image as a shy actress who does not even give interviews” as an “exalted, jittery annoyance whose vanity has been violated. "

Awards

• International Cannes Film Festival 2007 : Special Jury Prize for Valeria Bruni Tedeschi
• César 2008 : Nomination for Noémie Lvovsky for best supporting actress

Web links

• Official page for the film
• Actrices - or the dream from the night before in the Internet Movie Database (English)
• Actrices - or the dream from the night before in the online film database
• Review by Ekkehard Knörer
• Critique by Ulrich Kriest
• Critique by Tobias Diekmann at filmstarts.de

Individual evidence

1. ↑ http://www.schnitt.de/202,3363,01
2. ↑ Jenny Hoch: Comedy film "Actrices": Sad cake battle. In: Spiegel Online . April 16, 2008, accessed June 9, 2018 . 
3. ↑ http://www.abendblatt.de/daten/2008/04/17/870487.html