CLAIR DE FEMME
by COSTA-GAVRAS
Written by Costa-Gavras, Milan Kundera, Christopher Frank / From the novel by Romain Gary / Fotografia Ricardo Aronovitch / Editing Françoise Bonnot / Starring Yves Montand, Romy Schneider, Romolo Valli, Lila Kedrova, Heinz Bennent, Roberto Benigni, François Perrot, Gabriel Jabbour, Dieter Schiedor, Catherine Allegret, Daniel Mesguich, Michel Robin, Philippe Manesse / Produced by Gianfranco Piccioli and Mauro Berardi for PARVA CINEMATOGRAFICA – JANUS FILM – IDUNA FILM PRODUKTIONGESELLSCHAFT – LES FILMS GIBE’ – GVA (GEORGES-ALAIN VUILLE PRODUCTION) – CORONA CINEMATOGRAFICA – OPERA FILM
France, West Germany, Italy 1979 / 100′
V.O. sub. ITA
restored version
18.11.2021
18:30
Cinema De Seta
Efebo d'Oro Lifetime Achievement
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Michel and Lidia do not know one another, but share a common fate through their partners: the terminal illness of his wife and the consequences of their son’s death for her husband.
They are looking for a fresh start
and they both see it in the other. So, they completely change their initial plans and decide to flee to Venezuela. But is Lidia truly ready?
The romantic shift by Costa-Gavras, starting from the novel by Romain Gary, a writer of Lithuanian origin, results in a film centred on the efforts to face the unbearable drama of solitude.
DIRECTOR
Costa-Gavras, born in 1933 in Greece in the province of Iraia, he began his career directing detective films and then devoted himself almost permanently to the crime story. He went into exile due to the dramatic socio-political situation in his country and received French citizenship in 1965. Here he shot The Sleeping Car Murders starring Yves Montand who would become his ‘muse’ and star of many of the films he shot in Europe. In 1969 he received an Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film and Jury Prize at the Cannes Film Festival for the film Z for which he took inspiration from the assassination of Lambrakis. In 1982, he won the Palme d’Or at the Cannes Film Festival for Missing, a portrait of Chile under the Pinochet dictatorship. In 1989, he triumphed also in Berlin where Music Box won the Golden Bear. Adults in the Room is his first feature film shot in Greek. Adults in the Room is his first feature film shot in Greek.
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