Meeting in Venice

Movie
German title	Meeting in Venice
Original title	Hasards or coincidences
Country of production	France , Canada
original language	French , Italian , English
Publishing year	1998
length	120 minutes
Rod
Director	Claude Lelouch
script	Claude Lelouch
production	Faruk Aksoy , ; Gabriela Chavira-Gélin , ; Suzanne Dussault , ; Marie-Christine Lezzi , ; André Picard , ; Sule Soysal
music	Claude Bolling , ; Francis Lai
camera	Pierre-William Glenn
cut	Hélène de Luze
occupation
	Alessandra Martines : Miriam Lini; Pierre Arditi : Pierre Turi; Arthur Cheysson : Serge; Laurent Hilaire : Laurent; Marc Hollogne : Marc Deschamps; Véronique Moreau : Catherine; Geoffrey Holder : owner of Soutines Bar; Patrick Labbé : Michel Bonhomme;

Whirling dervishes in a Turkish festival hall, an original location

Meeting in Venice (original title: Hasards ou coïncidences ) is a French - Canadian drama directed by Claude Lelouch . The film premiered on September 3, 1998 at the Venice Film Festival . His overarching credo is "The greater the misfortune, the more grandiose life".

action

The single mother Miriam met the gallant art dealer Pierre on a trip. This leads to a romantic love affair that comes to an abrupt end when Miriam's son Serge and Pierre have a fatal accident in a sailing boat. In order to cope with grief, she continues the journey around the world that she started together on her own. She records the individual stations with a video camera.

background

The love drama was produced in 1997 by Lelouch's production company "Les films 13" with a budget of the equivalent of 11.1 million euros.

The locations were scattered around the world, specifically New York , South Korea , France , Venice , Mexico and Canada . A ballet scene was filmed in St. Mark's Square in Venice.

The painter Chaim Soutine is mentioned several times in the film. The pictures "The Gondola with the Red Woman" and "The Spiral", forged by Pierre, are not the artist's works.

criticism

“Melodrama about the power of love, transience and death, which feels obliged to a modern aesthetic that doesn't really fit the content. The game plot is repeatedly interrupted by artfully assembled video recordings and flashbacks. "

- Lexicon of international film

Awards

Alessandra Martines won the Silver Hugo for Best Actress in 1998. The film music was nominated for a César in 1999.

Web links

Commons : Film locations of Chance or Coincidence (1998) - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Meeting in Venice in the Internet Movie Database (English)

Individual evidence

↑ Entry on allocine.fr → Voir les infos techniques
↑ JP's box office
↑ Filming locations for encounter in Venice. Internet Movie Database , accessed May 22, 2015 .
^ Meeting in Venice. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed October 18, 2014 .

[1] Entry on allocine.fr → Voir les infos techniques

[2] JP's box office

[3] Filming locations for encounter in Venice. Internet Movie Database , accessed May 22, 2015 .

[4] Meeting in Venice. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed October 18, 2014 .