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Edition 2023

MERCI LA VIE THANKS FOR LIFE

Bertrand Blier

France 1991 117 min French

Two teenage girls meet on a road during the German occupation of France. The first, played by Charlotte Gainsbourg, is completing her baccalaureate degree; the second, portrayed by Anouk Grinberg, has until now led a life of drifting and misfortune. Now friends, together they will experience incredible adventures and face a series of trials...

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Crédits

Cast

Charlotte Gainsbourg, Anouk Grinberg, Michel Blanc, Gérard Depardieu 

 

 

Screenplay

Bertrand Blier

Image

Philippe Rousselot

Editing

Claudine Merlin

Sound

Pierre Gamet

Music

Arno Hintjens

Production

Jean-Louis Livi, Bertrand Blier, Bernard Marescot, Societé d'Exploitation et de Distribution de Films (SEDIF), Ciné Valse, F comme Film, Orly Films

Introduced by Hugo Serano, student at BTS of Biarritz

The BTS degree in audiovisual professions was created in 1985 at the René Cassin high school in Bayonne. It offers an initial training course as well as a sandwich course with three options: Sound professions, editing professions, and equipment engineering and operation techniques. Project-based learning aims to open up broader perspectives to students than the usual narrow framework of training and to meet the challenges of contemporary images, whether they are still, moving, narrative, conceptual, commercial or artistic.

Bertrand Blier

Born in 1939

After starting out as an assistant director in 1959 on John Berry's Oh! que mambo, Bertrand Blier directed his first feature film in 1967, Si j'étais un espion. In Les Valseuses, a public triumph, he combines acerbic humour and social truth and creates the legendary trio of Gérard Depardieu, Patrick Dewaere and Miou-Miou. Bertrand Blier then directed Calmos (1976), Préparez vos mouchoirs (1978), Buffet froid (1979), Beau-père (1981) and La femme de mon pote (1983). In 1986, Tenue de soirée became one of the biggest scandals of French cinema in the 1980s and won the Best Actor Award at the Cannes Film Festival. In 1989, Trop belle pour toi met with public and critical success, winning the Grand Prix du Jury at the Cannes Festival and five César Awards. The 1990s and 2000s were marked by Merci la vie (1991), Un, deux, trois, soleil (1993), Mon homme (1996), Les Acteurs (2000), Les Côtelettes (2003), Combien tu m'aimes? (2005), Le Bruit des glaçons (2010) and Convoi exceptionnel in 2019. 

Séances

Sunday 02 — 14:00

Cinéma Le Royal Salle n°3 - Grande salle

Introduced by Hugo Serano, student at BTS of Biarritz

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