And Now Ladies and Gentlemen (2003)

Synopsis: "Life is a deep sleep, of which love is the dream" - Alfred de Musset A thief on the run from a life of crime. A nightclub singer hoping to escape from the blues of heartache. Two lost souls... "Life is a deep sleep, of which love is the dream" - Alfred de Musset A thief on the run from a life of crime. A nightclub singer hoping to escape from the blues of heartache. Two lost souls who have become fugitives from the past. . . but now, fate is about to bring them together in the unfolding present. Half way around the world, in a mysterious and enchanted village, they will each seek a way to literally save their endangered lives, while discovering a love that will radically change them. Academy Award® winner Jeremy Irons and renowned international recording artist Patricia Kaas star in And Now Ladies & Gentlemen, directed by Claude Lelouch, who returns to the territory of his internationally acclaimed hit A Man and a Woman with a story that celebrates life, love, adventure, music and companionship. Shot in five vibrant locations around the world including London, Paris, the French seaport of Fecamp, and the cities of Fez and Essaouira in Morocco, the film is a comic-tinged, kaleidoscopic journey that Lelouch hopes will allow audiences "to see the things you cannot see with the naked eye." Valentin (Jeremy Irons) is an English jewel thief and master of disguise who has managed to pull off heists from the greatest gem shops of Europe using only two weapons: humorous bluff and charming deceit. And yet Valentin’s most secret, driving dream is to start a new life, and perhaps one day, to reimburse those from whom he has stolen. For now, however, the wearied Valentin desperately needs to escape. So he sets sail on a luxury yacht from the French port city of Fecamp and heads for the solace of the deep blue sea. Meanwhile, Jane Lester (Patricia Kaas) is a jazz chanteuse reeling from a bad love affair with a philandering trumpet player. She too sets sail, landing in Morocco, where she takes a gig singing in a grand Fez hotel, and looks for her own form of peace in the sand dunes and mysteries of the desert. Their fates collide when Valentin’s yacht (which is named "Ladies and Gentlemen") crashes off the coast of Morocco. Both he and Jane wind up in a medical office suffering from memory lapses – she has been forgetting lyrics; he can’t remember merchandise he has stolen, or frequently, that he has stolen at all. But in each other, they find no need for recollections of the past. As they head for the tomb of a legendary Moroccan healer, rumored to be able to cure any malady, they start down the path of an adventurous, if indeterminate, future. [More]

Starring: Jeremy Irons, Patricia Kaas, Thierry Lhermitte, Alessandra Martines

Starring: Jeremy Irons, Patricia Kaas, Thierry Lhermitte, Alessandra Martines, Jean-Marie Bigard, Ticky Holgado, Yvan Attal, Souad Amidou, Paul Freeman

Director: Claude Lelouch

Director: Claude Lelouch
Screenwriter: Claude Lelouch
Producer: Claude Lelouch, Paul Hichcock, Rick Senat
Composer: Michel Legrand
Studio: Paramount Classics

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