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LA BELLE EPOQUE

By Nicolas BEDOS

PVR INOX PICTURES LTD/PVR INOX LTD. - as DISTR Theatrical, TV, DVD-video, Pakistan, Nepal, Bhutan, Bangladesh, Srilanka, Maldives

Drama - Completed 2018

- Year of production
- 2018
- Genres
- Drama, Fantasy, Comedy
- Countries
- FRANCE, BELGIUM
- Languages
- FRENCH
- Duration
- 115 mn
- Director(s)
- Nicolas BEDOS
- Writer(s)
- Nicolas BEDOS
- Cast
- Daniel AUTEUIL , Guillaume CANET, Doria TILLIER
- Producer(s)
- François KRAUS, Denis PINEAU-VALENCIENNE
- Synopsis
- A former draftsman, Victor is now disillusioned. His marriage to Marianne is floundering and he is disinterested and overwhelmed by this overly technological modern world. To cheer him up, his son Maxime pays him for an evening organized by his friend Antoine's company Les Voyageurs du temps. This company offers its customers the opportunity to relive the era of their choice, by mixing theatrical artifices and historical reconstruction. Some wealthy clients choose to spend an evening with William Faulkner, Adolf Hitler or with 17th century aristocrats. At first reluctant, Victor accepts when Marianne throws him out. He then opted to dive back into the most significant week of his life, the one where he met his great love, on May 16, 1974, in the La Belle Époque café in Lyon. In this "staging", Marianne is played by Margot, an actress who lives a complicated and tumultuous relationship with Antoine. The latter, a former screenwriter, is very picky and does not support any approximation on the part of his collaborators. Gradually, Victor will lend himself to the game, until he loses himself in these “reconstituted” memories.