Dorante, an impoverished young man, is taken on as a secretary by Araminte, a rich widow with whom he is secretly in love. The valet Dubois does all he can to get Araminte to fall in love with Dorante. Following his staging of Marivaux’s comedy at the Odéon theater, Luc Bondy turns the whole theater building into a film studio, placing his actors in the foyer, under the stage, in the kitchens, using the most unusual and unexpected spots to invent a new dynamic between theater and film.
Direction
Bondy turns an entire theater into his playground.
Acting
Huppert's widow who cannot be bamboozled—until she is.
Director
Luc Bondy
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Marivaux's 1737 play was already about performance; Bondy's 2017 film literalizes this by making the theater itself perform.
Bondy died in 2015—this was his final film, assembled posthumously from his stage production, making the theater's ghostly spaces accidentally poignant.
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