Le choix

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Movie
Original title Le Choix
Country of production Belgium , France
original language French
Publishing year 1975
length 90 minutes
Rod
Director Jacques Faber
script Jacques Faber
Nanina Zunino
music Guy Boulanger
camera Jean Rozenbaum
cut Patricia Canino
occupation

Le Choix is a Belgian - French feature film (1976) directed by Jacques Faber and starring Claude Jade and Gilles Kohler .

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Actor Jean-Pierre and costume designer Anne are a young couple in Brussels. While the fun-loving Anne wants a child, Jean-Pierre, like Lorenzaccio , hesitates about the role that he is now supposed to play. He accepts an engagement for a theater tour in the south of France and moves with a troupe towards Nice. Anne suffers from the separation. In Nice, Jean-Pierre meets the sensual dancer Juliette. She is Anne's image and dreams of playing Juliet in the ballet Roméo and Juliette . In between, Jean-Pierre visits Anne, from whom he hides his affair. His rendezvous with Juliette are more and more like a dream. In the end, the coward Jean-Pierre will be alone.

Remarks

The actor Jacques Faber made his debut as a film director with Le Choix . He wanted to cast the singer and actor Jacques Dutronc as a partner of Claude Jade . But Dutronc wanted to wait for the effect of his not yet shown film Nachtblende (1975) first. So Faber gave the role to Gilles Kohler . After the double role in Le Choix , Claude Jade played a double role again in Lise et Laura in 1982 .

The film was shaped autobiographically. Like Jacques Faber themselves, Jean-Pierre and Anne work at the Théâtre Royal du Parc in Brussels. Like Faber himself, Jean-Pierre plays the title role of a classic (with Faber Britannicus , with Jean-Pierre Lorenzaccio ), with which he is going on tour to the south of France. The filming locations and near Nice are those where Faber and his troupe also stopped.

The film was Belgium's official contribution to the Karlovy Vary International Film Festival in 1976 .

Le Choix was released on DVD in 2011.

Reviews

Variety praised Claude Jade's professional game, but said of Gilles Kohler that his part not only says and does stupid things, he also plays them that way.

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