Abandoned by his wife, Bernard struggles to overcome his grief and settles in a residence for singles. Employed by "SOS Doctors", he provides night guards to occupy his insomnia. That's how he is brought one night to help a neighbor, Nadine Foulon, victim of discomfort in the elevator. It turns out that Nadine is also going through a difficult time, since her companion, Terry, a singer-guitarist, has left her. A professional photographer, she can not forget it and has since oscillated between depression and bulimia. Gathered by their pains of heart, these two beings will, with the wire of the confidences, become more intimate ...
Acting
Anémone and Blanc's exquisite wounded chemistry
Direction
Leconte's playful framing of mundane tragedy
Production
Perfectly drab singles residence aesthetic
Director
Patrice Leconte
Anémone
Nadine
Michel Blanc
Bernard
Xavier Saint-Macary
Philippe
Pascale Rocard
Anne
Christophe Malavoy
Terry
Michel Rivard
Alexandre
Sylvia Zerbib
Daughter of the Real Estate Agency
Charlotte de Turckheim
Woman in the Emergency Room
Jean-Michel Ribes
Commissioner
Guy Laporte
The Diver
Patrick Bruel
François
Jean-Paul Lilienfeld
The Master
Pierre Baton
The Butler
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
This was Patrice Leconte's second feature after years directing French TV comedy, marking his pivot toward the bittersweet romance that would define his career.
The 'singles residence' was a genuine 1980s French urban phenomenon—state-funded housing for unmarried adults, already becoming obsolete as cohabitation norms shifted.
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