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La Belle Époque is a 2019 French romantic comedy-drama film that was written and directed by Nicolas Bedos.[2]

La Belle Époque
Theatrical release poster
Directed byNicolas Bedos
Written byNicolas Bedos
Produced by
  • François Kraus
  • Denis Pineau-Valencienne
Starring
CinematographyNicolas Bolduc
Edited byAnny Danché
Music by
  • Nicolas Bedos
  • Anne-Sophie Versnaeyen
Production
companies
  • Les Films du Kiosque
  • Pathé Films
  • Orange Studio
  • France 2 Cinéma
  • Hugar Prod
  • Fils
  • Umedia
Distributed byPathé Distribution
Release dates
  • 20 May 2019 (2019-05-20) (Cannes)
  • 6 November 2019 (2019-11-06) (France)
Running time
115 minutes
CountryFrance
LanguageFrench
Box office$13,907,564[1]

The film stars Daniel Auteuil as Victor, a man in his 60s whose long marriage to Marianne (Fanny Ardant) is on the rocks. When Victor meets Antoine (Guillaume Canet), the owner of a company which allows people to perform a version of "time travel" by visiting a stage where the company acts out a staged historical reenactment, he takes the opportunity to revisit the moment when he first met Marianne, in hopes of rekindling his love for her.

The film premiered out of competition at the 2019 Cannes Film Festival.[3]


Plot


Victor, an unemployed cartoonist and illustrator, is in his sixties and disillusioned. His marriage to Marianne is in trouble and he is uninterested in, and overwhelmed by, the modern world and what he sees as faddish, technological advances. To cheer him up, his son Maxime buys him a voucher to spend an evening run by a company that stages historical reenactments as a form of "time travel". The company offers its customers an opportunity to relive the era of their choice, mixing theatrical devices and historical reconstruction, and some wealthy clients choose to spend an evening with William Faulkner, Adolf Hitler or aristocrats in the 17th century. Although Victor is at first dismissive, after Marianne tells him she wants to break up with him, Victor reluctantly approaches the company, choosing to revisit the most significant week of his life, in which he first met Marianne, forty years earlier, in La Belle Époque café in Lyon. Antoine, the owner of the company and a former screenwriter, is very fastidious and overbearing but holds an appreciation for Victor from a kindness he did for him as a teenager. Antoine restages Victor's first meeting with Marianne, casting as Marianne the woman with whom Antoine currently has a turbulent affair, Margot. Little by little, Victor becomes lost in the reconstituted memories, and at the same time Antoine and Margot's relationship breaks down. Meanwhile, Marianne comes to regret her decision. Eventually, the two couples are both reconciled over their need to connect to the authentic, rather than the nostalgic.


Cast



Reception


On Rotten Tomatoes the film has an approval rating of 88% based on reviews from 26 critics, with an average rating of 7.6/10.[9] On Metacritic, the film has a weighted average score of 75 out of 100, based on 4 critics, indicating "generally favourable reviews".[10]

Peter Debruge of Variety wrote: "Where so many high-concept romantic comedies squander their one big idea, 'La Belle Époque' leverages its own to remind us how and why we fall in love in the first place..." and Debruge praises the writing, saying it has "a script that's as ambitiously imagined as a Charlie Kaufman movie."[11] Todd McCarthy of The Hollywood Reporter gave the film a positive review calling it a "witty, sexy and original romantic comedy that touches many points of satisfaction."[12]


References


  1. "La belle époque (2019)". The Numbers. Retrieved 22 August 2020.
  2. Allan Hunter, "'La Belle Epoque': Cannes Review". Screen Daily, 21 May 2019.
  3. "Cannes festival 2019: full list of films". The Guardian. 23 April 2019. Retrieved 30 April 2019.
  4. Sheehan, Peter W. (13 August 2020). "2020 Film Reviews: La Belle Epoque". Catholic Church in Australia. Retrieved 22 August 2020.
  5. "Jeanne Arènes dans La Belle Epoque". Cours Peyran Lacroix (in French). 19 November 2019. Retrieved 22 August 2020.
  6. "La Belle Époque Press Kit" (PDF). UniFrance. 20 May 2019. Retrieved 22 August 2020.
  7. McDonald, John (22 August 2020). "La Belle Epoque brings a desire to recapture the past". Australian Financial Review. Retrieved 22 August 2020.
  8. "La Belle Epoque (2019)". UniFrance. Retrieved 22 August 2020.
  9. "La belle époque (2019)". Rotten Tomatoes. Fandango. Retrieved 10 October 2021.
  10. "La Belle Époque Reviews". Metacritic. CBS. Retrieved 27 April 2020.
  11. Debruge, Peter (3 June 2019). "Film Review: 'La Belle Époque'". Variety.
  12. McCarthy, Todd (22 May 2019). "'La Belle Epoque': Film Review | Cannes 2019". The Hollywood Reporter.



На других языках


- [en] La Belle Époque (film)

[ru] Прекрасная эпоха (фильм, 2019)

«Прекрасная эпоха» (фр. La belle époque) — драматическая комедия от французского режиссёра Николя Бедоса. В главных ролях — Даниэль Отёй, Гийом Кане, Фанни Ардан и Дория Тилье. Мировая премьера фильма состоялась 20 мая 2019 года на Каннском кинофестивале. В российский прокат вышел 28 ноября того же года («Вольга»).



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