All the Fine Promises
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All the Fine Promises is a 2003 French movie directed by Jean-Paul Civeyrac
based on the novel Hymne à l'amour by Anne Wiazemsky
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) is surprised to discover that her Father's last will and testament was not correctly administered. The will reveals the existence of a love affair. Her father had a mistress : Béatrice (Bulle Ogier
). Marianne meets Béatrice and remembers her childhood. She reconnects with her nanny Ghislaine (Valérie Crunchant
)...
Jean-Paul Civeyrac
Jean-Paul Civeyrac is a French New Wave director whose films are usually characterized by close attention to music and actors' bodies. He has adapted a French novel by Anne Wiazemsky, Hymnes à l’amour, with the title All the fine promises . This movie was awarded by The Prix Jean Vigo 2003...
based on the novel Hymne à l'amour by Anne Wiazemsky
Anne Wiazemsky
Princess Anne Wiazemsky is a French actress and novelist, of the Russian Rurikid family of Princes Vyazemsky-Counts Levashov. Through her mother, she is the granddaughter of François Mauriac. She appeared in Robert Bresson's Au hasard Balthazar and in Godard's films La Chinoise and Week End...
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Plot
Coming off the bad end of a doomed love affair, and trying to cope with her Mother's death Marianne (Jeanne BalibarJeanne Balibar
Jeanne Balibar is a French actress and singer.She was born in Paris. She began her acting career on the stage, in "Don Juan" at the Festival d'Avignon. Her first film role was in Arnaud Desplechin's 1992 film The Sentinel. She continues to perform in both spheres.Recently she starred in Ne Change...
) is surprised to discover that her Father's last will and testament was not correctly administered. The will reveals the existence of a love affair. Her father had a mistress : Béatrice (Bulle Ogier
Bulle Ogier
Bulle Ogier is a French actress.Ogier's first appearance on screen was in Voilà l'Ordre, a short film directed by Jacques Baratier with a number of the then-emerging young singers of the 1960s in France, including Boris Vian, Claude Nougaro, etc.She worked with Jacques Rivette Bulle Ogier (born...
). Marianne meets Béatrice and remembers her childhood. She reconnects with her nanny Ghislaine (Valérie Crunchant
Valérie Crunchant
Valérie Crunchant is a French actress.She was born in Évry, Essonne, a suburb of Paris.Valérie Crunchant appears in All the fine promises , directed and written by Jean-Paul Civeyrac in which she was very graceful as the young Ghislaine.In Capitaine Achab directed by Philippe Ramos she...
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Movie cast
- Jeanne BalibarJeanne BalibarJeanne Balibar is a French actress and singer.She was born in Paris. She began her acting career on the stage, in "Don Juan" at the Festival d'Avignon. Her first film role was in Arnaud Desplechin's 1992 film The Sentinel. She continues to perform in both spheres.Recently she starred in Ne Change...
: Marianne - Bulle OgierBulle OgierBulle Ogier is a French actress.Ogier's first appearance on screen was in Voilà l'Ordre, a short film directed by Jacques Baratier with a number of the then-emerging young singers of the 1960s in France, including Boris Vian, Claude Nougaro, etc.She worked with Jacques Rivette Bulle Ogier (born...
: Béatrice - Valérie CrunchantValérie CrunchantValérie Crunchant is a French actress.She was born in Évry, Essonne, a suburb of Paris.Valérie Crunchant appears in All the fine promises , directed and written by Jean-Paul Civeyrac in which she was very graceful as the young Ghislaine.In Capitaine Achab directed by Philippe Ramos she...
: Ghislaine (young) - Eva Truffaut : Marianne’s mother
- Renaud Bécard : Etienne
Production credits
- Producer: Les films Pelléas, ArteArteArte is a Franco-German TV network. It is a European culture channel and aims to promote quality programming especially in areas of culture and the arts...
- Director: Jean-Paul CiveyracJean-Paul CiveyracJean-Paul Civeyrac is a French New Wave director whose films are usually characterized by close attention to music and actors' bodies. He has adapted a French novel by Anne Wiazemsky, Hymnes à l’amour, with the title All the fine promises . This movie was awarded by The Prix Jean Vigo 2003...
- Written by: Jean-Paul CiveyracJean-Paul CiveyracJean-Paul Civeyrac is a French New Wave director whose films are usually characterized by close attention to music and actors' bodies. He has adapted a French novel by Anne Wiazemsky, Hymnes à l’amour, with the title All the fine promises . This movie was awarded by The Prix Jean Vigo 2003...
& Anne WiazemskyAnne WiazemskyPrincess Anne Wiazemsky is a French actress and novelist, of the Russian Rurikid family of Princes Vyazemsky-Counts Levashov. Through her mother, she is the granddaughter of François Mauriac. She appeared in Robert Bresson's Au hasard Balthazar and in Godard's films La Chinoise and Week End... - Musical Composer: Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy, John CageJohn CageJohn Milton Cage Jr. was an American composer, music theorist, writer, philosopher and artist. A pioneer of indeterminacy in music, electroacoustic music, and non-standard use of musical instruments, Cage was one of the leading figures of the post-war avant-garde...
, Édith PiafÉdith PiafÉdith Piaf , born Édith Giovanna Gassion, was a French singer and cultural icon who became widely regarded as France's greatest popular singer. Her singing reflected her life, with her specialty being ballads...