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Nominated for eight Cesar awards in its native France, PRIVATE FEARS IN PUBLIC PLACES is an intelligent, adult look at loneliness in the twenty-first century. Directed by French master Alain Resnais (LAST YEAR AT MARIENBAD, HIROSHIMA, MON AMOUR), the film examines the interrelated lives of six main characters who are trying desperately but failing at making real, long-lasting connections. Charlotte (a bewitching Sabine Azema) is a Bible-reading real estate agent who takes care of Lionel's (Pierre Arditi) vile, ailing father at night. Thierry (Andre Dussollier), a coworker of Charlotte's, is showing apartments to Nicole (Laura Morante) and Dan (Lambert Wilson), an engaged couple who can't agree on anything. And Gaelle (Isabelle Carre), who lives with Thierry, her older brother, is looking for love through the personal ads but instead keeps coming home alone. Based on the play by Alan Ayckbourn, PRIVATE FEARS IN PUBLIC PLACES is beautifully shot by Eric Gautier, particularly the scenes in the colourful bar where Lionel works and Dan drinks away his frustrations. Scenes are linked together by falling snow, adding a chilling cold to the pervasive loneliness. The acting is uniformly excellent, with especially good turns from Azema, Arditi, and Morante, who won the Francesco Pasinetti Best Actress award at the 2006 Venice Film Festival, which also awarded octogenarian Resnais the Silver Lion as Best Director. Resnais eschews modern technology in this carefully stylised world; the characters don't spend their time endlessly on computers and cell phones, and Charlotte even gives Thierry a videotape to watch, one that has been taped over many times yet still retains some of its previous recordings, as if parts of the past can never be erased.

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ProducerBruno Pesery

EAN5021866357300

eBay Product ID (ePID)61592671

Product Key Features

Film/TV TitlePrivate Fears in Public Places

ActorSabine Azema, Pierre Arditi, Andre Dussollier, Lambert Wilson, Laura Morante, Isabelle Carre, Claude Rich

DirectorAlain Resnais

FormatDVD

LanguageFrench

Release Year2007

FeaturesInterview with Sabine Azema and Lambert Wilson\Trailer\Director, Writer and Cast Biographies, Widescreen

Aspect Ratio16:9 Anamorphic Wide Screen

GenreDrama, General

Run Time115 Mins

Additional Product Features

Certificate15

Number of Discs1

Country/Region of ManufactureFrance

Director of PhotographyEric Gautier

ReviewsEntertainment Weekly - The grand old filmmaker frames each scene like a fine painting, Film Comment - It is marvelously alert, adult, intelligent, handsome, well-acted, and serenely sad -- possibly the most beautiful film ever made by an 84-year-old, certainly one of the year's best pictures, New York Times - The mood is polite, discreet, hushed, resolutely adult....Mr. Resnais's narrative techniques are similarly refined. The edits are as smooth as the fluid camerawork...

Consumer AdviceContains a single use of strong language and moderate sex references

Movie/TV TitlePrivate Fears In Public Places

ComposerMark Snow

Sound sourceDolby Digital

ScreenwriterJean-Michel Ribes

WriterAlan Ayckbourn