Two couple of friends, one very rich, the other almost homeless, decide to go on Holiday. Julie, a single mother, joins them too. Once at seaside, it starts a complicate love cross among them that will involve also a transsexual, a jealous brother, a Latin Lover and another nervous stressed couple. Not to mention about the daughter of one of them that is secretly in Chicago with one of her father's employees... At the end of the summer, all of them will join the same party...
Acting
Charlotte Rampling's icy magnificence anchors the chaos.
Writing
Novel-based structure weaves multiple betrayals with cruel precision.
Cinematography
Sun-drenched beaches that contrast with rotting marriages.
Director
Michel Blanc
Charlotte Rampling
Elizabeth Lannier
Jacques Dutronc
Bertrand Lannier
Michel Blanc
Jean-Pierre
Carole Bouquet
Lulu
Denis Podalydès
Jérôme
Karin Viard
Véro
Clotilde Courau
Julie
Vincent Elbaz
Maxime
Gaspard Ulliel
Loïc
Lou Doillon
Emilie
Sami Bouajila
Kevin
Mélanie Laurent
Carole
Dominic Gould
l'homme au parasol
Barbara Kelsch
Pauline
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Adapts Joseph Connolly's British novel but Blanc relocated it to France, where class tension hits differently—the wealthy here are *old* money performing relaxation.
Michel Blanc cast himself as the pathetic Jean-Pierre, reportedly telling interviewers he wanted to look 'as unappealing as possible' next to Dutronc's aging rock-star charisma.
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