Chacun son cinéma ou Ce petit coup au coeur quand la lumière s'éteint et que le film commence (2007)

User Rating:

6.7/10   

Directors:

Theodoros Angelopoulos
Olivier Assayas

Writers:

Manoel de Oliveira (dialogue) (segment)
Manoel de Oliveira (scenario) (segment) ...

Release Date:

31 October 2007 (France)

Genre:

Comedy | Drama

Plot:

A collective film of 33 shorts directed by different directors about their feeling about Cinema. |

Plot Keywords:

Surreal | Hommage | Long Title | Anthology | Surrealism

Cast

Isabelle Adjani	...	Herself (segment "47 Ans Après") (archive footage)
Pegah Ahangarani
Anouk Aimée	...	(segment "Cinéma de Boulevard") (archive footage)
Leonid Alexeenko	...	(segment "Irtebak")
Taraneh Alidoosti
Antonin Artaud	...	(segment "Artaud Double Bill") (archive footage)
Vishka Asayesh
Fred Astaire	...	(segment "Cinéma de Boulevard") (archive footage)
George Babluani	...	The thief (segment "Recrudescence")
Brigitte Bardot	...	(segment "Anna") (voice) (archive footage)
Cindy Beckett	...	Supporting
Josh Brolin	...	(segment "World cinema")
Caju	...	Himself (segment "À 8 944 km de Cannes")
Carl-Erik Calamnius	...	Ticket Man (segment "La Fonderie")
Castanha	...	Himself (segment "À 8 944 km de Cannes")
Youssef Chahine	...	Himself (segment "47 Ans Après")
Charles Chaplin	...	(segment "Zhanxiou Village") (archive footage)
Antoine Chappey	...	Le Secrétaire de Khrouchtchev (segment "Rencontre unique")
Maury Chaykin	...	(segment "Artaud Double Bill") (archive footage)
Farini Cheung	...	The Woman (segment "I Travelled 9000 kilometers To Give It To You")
Maurice Chevalier	...	(segment "Épilogue") (archive footage)
Casper Christensen	...	(segment "The Last Dating Show")
Jean Cocteau	...	Himself (segment "47 Ans Après") (archive footage)
Yves Courbet	...	(segment "No Translation Needed")
David Cronenberg	...	The suicidal man (segment "At the suicide of the last Jew in the world in the last cinema in the world")
Anne-Marie Louise Curry	...	(segment "The Last Dating Show")
Willem Dafoe	...	(segment "Occupations") (archive footage)
Audrey Dana	...	Claude Lelouch's mother (segment "Cinéma de boulevard")
Duarte de Almeida	...	Le Pape Jean XXIII (segment "Rencontre unique")
Émilie Dequenne	...	The crying woman (segment "Dans l'obscurité")
Marcelle Derrien	...	(segment "Épilogue") (archive footage)
Lionel Dray	...	The boyfriend (segment "Recrudescence")
Jean-Claude Dreyfus	...	The husband (segment "Cinéma érotique")
Yousra El Lozy	...	The girl (segment "47 Ans Après")
Erica Englert	...	The Bug (segment "The Lady Bug")
Deniz Gamze Ergüven	...	The young woman (segment "Recrudescence")
Laleh Eskandari
Setareh Eskandari
Ateneh Faghih Nasiri
Maria Falconetti	...	(segment "Artaud Double Bill") (archive footage)
Wing Fan	...	The Woman (segment "I Travelled 9000 kilometers To Give It To You")
Golshifteh Farahani
Sara Forestier	...	The usherette (segment "Cinéma érotique")
Jacques Frantz	...	The annoying businessman (segment "Occupations")
Pierre Fresnay	...	(segment "Cinéma de Boulevard") (archive footage)
Jean Gabin	...	(segment "Cinéma de Boulevard") (archive footage)
Daria Gratcheva	...	(segment "Dans le Noir")
Aleksei Grishin	...	(segment "Dans le Noir")
Miriam Heard	...	The young woman (segment 'Le Don')
Grant Heslov	...	(segment "World cinema")
Bryce Dallas Howard	...	(segment "Occupations") (archive footage)
Frank Hvam	...	(segment "The Last Dating Show")
Matti Hyvönen	...	Worker (segment "La Fonderie")
Kristian Ibler	...	(segment "The Last Dating Show")
Clayton Jacobson	...	The Man / The Voices #3 (segment "The Lady Bug")
Mahtab Karamati
Niki Karimi
Anna Karina	...	(segment "Artaud Double Bill") (archive footage)
Karim Kassem	...	Young Youssef Chahine (segment "47 Ans Après")
Arsinée Khanjian	...	(segment "Artaud Double Bill") (archive footage)
Hamideh Kheirabadi
Niku Kheradmand
Takeshi Kitano	...	The projectionist (segment "Rencontre unique") (as Beat Takeshi)
Joachim Knop	...	(segment "The Last Dating Show")
Baran Kosari
Sylvia Kristel	...	Emmanuelle (segment "Cinéma érotique") (archive footage)
Viva Las Vegas	...	The sunbather (segment "First Kiss")
Édith Le Merdy	...	Wife (segment "Cinéma érotique")
Geneviève Lemon	...	The Voices #1 (segment "The Lady Bug") (voice) (as Genevieve Lemon)
Man Li	...	The girl (segment "En Regardent le Film")
Michael Lonsdale	...	The old blind man (segment "Le Don")
Yulai Lu	...	The projectionist (segment "En Regardent le Film")
Sara-Marie Maltha	...	(segment "The Last Dating Show")
Marcello Mastroianni	...	(segment "Trois Minutes") (archive footage)
Marney McQueen	...	The Voices #2 (segment "The Lady Bug") (voice)
Jeanne Moreau	...	The old woman / Herself (segment "Trois Minutes")
Nanni Moretti	...	Himself (segment "Diario di uno spettatore")
Michèle Morgan	...	Herself (segment "47 Ans Après") (archive footage)
Fatemah Motamed-Aria
Juliana Muñoz	...	(segment "No Translation Needed")
Kim Novak	...	Herself (segment "47 Ans Après") (archive footage)
Peter Hesse Overgaard	...	(segment "The Last Dating Show")
Paul Parson	...	The projectionist (segment "First Kiss")
Michel Piccoli	...	(segment "Anna") (voice) (archive footage)
Denis Podalydès	...	The manager (segment "Cinéma de boulevard")
Peter Reichhardt	...	(segment "The Last Dating Show")
Ginger Rogers	...	(segment "Cinéma de Boulevard") (archive footage)
Marie-Christine Moller Salmi	...	Cashier (segment "La Fonderie")
Ela Sanko	...	Crying Woman (segment "Dans le Noir") (as Yola Sanko)
Jérémie Segard	...	The thief (segment "Dans l'obscurité")
Brooke Smith	...	(segment "World cinema")
Zinedine Soualem	...	Claude Lelouch's father (segment "Cinéma de boulevard")
Elia Suleiman	...	The filmmaker (segment "Irtebak")
Hedye Tehrani
Jean-Louis Trintignant	...	(segment "Cinéma de Boulevard") (archive footage)
Sahar Valadbeigi
Erich von Stroheim	...	(segment "Cinéma de Boulevard") (archive footage)
Lars von Trier	...	The filmmaker (segment "Occupations")
Michel Vuillermoz	...	The groaning man (segment "Cinéma de boulevard")
Liang Wang	...	Boy (segment "En Regardent le Film")
Maya Waterman	...	Patron (segment "Anna")
Luisa Williams	...	Anna (segment "Anna")
Marila Zare'i

Also Known As:

Chacun son cinéma (France) (short title)
To Each His Cinema (International: English title)

Runtime:

100 min | Canada:119 min (Toronto International Film Festival)

Country:

France

Language:

Mandarin | English | French | Spanish | Danish | Finnish | Hebrew | Italian | Japanese | Portuguese | Russian | Yiddish

Color:

Color | Black and White

Certification:

Canada:G | South Korea:15 | Japan:PG-12

Filming Locations:

Alexandria, Egypt

Company:

Cannes Film Festival

Movie Connections:

References Quatre cents coups, Les (1959)

Soundtrack:

Excerpt from Piano sonata

A snapshot of cinema as a whole and its effect on people.

Its difficult to assess and review this film because it comprises of so many different directors and direction styles that grading this movie would be quite unfair to them all. Certain segments are simply brilliant whereas certain leave us with a 'wtf was that all about?' emotion. The film as a whole feels like skimming through the personal diaries of various directors wherein we may sometimes come across gems whereas certain sections only make sense to the film makers themselves.

Nevertheless, it is an essential watch for people who love experimental cinema because as an experimental film, it works brilliantly. It will probably make you feel how all movies make you feel. Take it as a taster of all the various genres of movies presented in bite sized pieces. The movie consists of humour, thrills, horror, autobiographies, biographies, drama, romance, erotica, documentaries, surrealism viz every single genre that exists...alas...no animation.

It is a very personal selection and everyone is guaranteed to find something that he/she likes. Overall this is a great collection of shorts and a must see. The star grading reflects how I perceived the movie as a whole - recommended.