A successful photographer gives up everything to devote himself to writing and discovers poverty.
Acting
Bouillon's committed unraveling of a man who refuses to see himself.
Direction
Donzelli's unsentimental gaze on male creative delusion.
Director
Valérie Donzelli
Bastien Bouillon
Paul Marquet
Virginie Ledoyen
Alice Bosquet, Gallimard Publisher
André Marcon
Paul's Father
Valérie Donzelli
Paul's Ex-wife
Marie Rivière
Paul's Mother
Adrien Barazzone
Pierre Lautrec
Marion Lecrivain
Paul's Sister
Philippe Katerine
Jeweler
Claude Perron
The woman with the suitcase
Béatrice de Staël
Newspaper Seller
Pauline Serieys
Young woman with the mezzanine
Michel Gondry
Customer in the sock
Éric Reinhardt
Demanding customer
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Donzelli continues her exploration of French bourgeois self-destruction after 'Declaration of War' and 'Marguerite & Julien.'
The film slyly critiques the 'writer in garret' myth by showing Paul's poverty as chosen performance, not necessity.
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