Actrices – Oder der Traum aus der Nacht davor (2007)

Actrices – Oder der Traum aus der Nacht davor: Directed by Valeria Bruni Tedeschi. With Valeria Bruni Tedeschi, Noémie Lvovsky, Louis Garrel, Mathieu Amalric. Marcelline is an actress. Forty, single and childless, she begins rehearsals for Turgenev’s A MONTH IN THE COUNTRY. Denis, the director, admires her greatly and promises he’ll make her happy on stage – she will shine. But things don’t go to plan. Denis introduces Marcelline to his assistant, Nathalie. The two women were at drama school together twenty years earlier. Nathalie tells her she had to give up acting: she has a husband and children. Marcelline and Nathalie look at each other as if in a mirror, each seeing in the other the life she doesn’t have, the dreams she cannot bear to abandon. Their meeting is the first in a series of tremors that will turn Marcelline’s life upside down.

“It has been called a comedy in his spirit. It isnu0026#39;t. Surely the people here are neurotic, but much more than they are in an Allen movie. And they lack his humour.u003cbr/u003eu003cbr/u003eMarcelline is the actress who goes Turgenyev. In her private life, she desperately wants a child. Sheu0026#39;s 40 now. This neurosis together with the part sheu0026#39;s acting, almost destroys her. She doesnu0026#39;t know who she is anymore.u003cbr/u003eu003cbr/u003eBut instead of being a movie about common life, this is more a movie about theatre. And you donu0026#39;t feel much, watching it. Woody Allen is far away.”