The 20s. In a seaside resort where everybody is bored, Albert Marvuglia, a slightly shabby conjurer, makes Marta, the wife of the wealthy bourgeois Charles Moufflet, disappear, who takes advantage of this tour to escape for good.
Acting
Sergi López's rumpled, heartsick conjurer is pure melancholy charm.
Production
Lush 1920s resort aesthetic that feels like a faded postcard.
Director
Noémie Lvovsky
Denis Podalydès
Charles
Sergi López
Albert
Noémie Lvovsky
Zaïra
Rebecca Marder
Amélie
Judith Chemla
Marta
François Morel
Gabriel
Paolo Mattei
Le garçon d'hôtel
Micha Lescot
Directeur Hotel
Damien Bonnard
Arthur
Armelle
Une cliente de l'hôtel
Anne Rotger
La soeur de Charles
Laurent Poitrenaux
Le frère de Charles
Catherine Hiegel
La mère de Charles
Arthur Teboul
Le maître-nageur
Philippe Duclos
Robin
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Lvovsky adapts this from a 1930s Italian play, keeping its theatrical artificiality intact—the film knows it's a stage trick and leans in.
Denis Podalydès and Sergi López previously starred together in 1996's 'Un air de famille'; their reunion here crackles with decades of unspoken rivalry.
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