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Actresses (Actrices) (2007)

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Average Rating: 5.5/10
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Release Date: Oct 26, 2007 Wide

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Actress-cum-director Valeria Bruni-Tedeschi's sophomore feature, the comedy-drama Les Actrices (Le reve de la nuit d'avant), follows the trials and travails of Marcelline (Tedeschi), a tense and jittery stage thesp whose personal and professional life threaten to fall into pieces simultaneously. On a personal level, Marcelline hits the midpoint of her life, hears her biological clock ticking, and longs desperately for a child. At work, Marcelline's inability to find the core of her character,

Unrated, 1 hr. 47 min.

Drama, Art House & International, Comedy

Directed By: Valeria Bruni Tedeschi

Written By: Valeria Bruni Tedeschi, No�mie Lvovsky, Agnes de Sacy

In Theaters: Oct 26, 2007 Wide

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Cast

Valeria Bruni Tedeschi
Marcelline
No�mie Lvovsky
Nathalie
Mathieu Amalric
Denis
Louis Garrel
Eric
Marysa Borini
La mère, La m�re, La m...
Valeria Golino
Natalia Petrovna
Maurice Garrel
La père, La p�re, La p...
Simona Marchini
Bernard Nissille
Olivier Rabourdin
Laetitia Spigarelli
Gilles Cohen
Marie Rivi�re
Franck Demules
Souz Chirazi
Anne Barry
Arthurlgual
Brian Mac Cormack
Eric Elmosnino
Robinson St�venin
Laurent Grevill
Pascal Bongard
Marisa Borini
Jean-Hugues Anglade
Bernadette Lafont

Critic Reviews for Actresses (Actrices)

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The mix of the endless rehearsals, Marcelline's lack of grip both personally and professionally and her surreal imaginings make for an uneven film.

July 11, 2008 Full Review Source: Reeling Reviews

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Robin Clifford

Reeling Reviews

Valeria Bruni Tedeschi does a terrific job with her portrayal of an actress who has trouble unraveling her life from her performance, but the setting she gives this gem doesn't show it off in its best light.

July 6, 2008 Full Review Source: Reeling Reviews

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Laura Clifford

Reeling Reviews

there is what we can call the House of Sand and Fog problem: this woman is way too attractive to be in this desperate a situation

December 18, 2007 Comment

Marlow Stern

Manhattan Movie Magazine

Set in the bourgeois and vaguely intellectual Parisian bubble of Bruni Tedeschi's alter ego, it veers more towards comedy as the film progresses, earning good-hearted laughs as well as, well, whatever one may feel towards this particular milieu.

October 13, 2007 Full Review Source: european-films.net

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Boyd van Hoeij

european-films.net

Fails to congeal into a heady structural puzzle, or into a particularly affecting exercise in female empathy.

October 10, 2007 Full Review Source: Slant Magazine

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Ed Gonzalez

Slant Magazine

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It reminded me of some Simone de Beauvoir´s novels whose (part of the) storyline and (some) characters have connections with the theater.

January 11, 2010

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