24 Hours in the Life of a Woman
24 heures de la vie d'une femme
Release: 2002-09-07
·Runtime: 107m
·★ 5.2
Drama
Set in 1913, 1936 and 2001. When he returns to the casino and seaside resort of his early teens, Louis, a 78 year old man encounters Olivia, a 19 year old young woman madly in love with a violent cad. Louis tells the story of his own mother having a passionate, driven fling with his Italian tennis instructor in 1936, and of Marie Collins Brown, the slightly older widowed woman who helped him through his confusion and pain by recounting the story of her passionate 24 hour fling with a hopeless young Polish gambler in 1913.
Production Countries
France
Germany
United Kingdom
Cast
Pascal Greggory
as le joueur de casino
Valérie Dréville
as Henriette
Michel Serrault
as Louis
Bérénice Bejo
as Olivier
Nikolaj Coster-Waldau
as Anton
Serge Riaboukine
as Maurice
Chloé Lambert
as un pensionnaire
François Caron
as le pensionnaire blond
Alexia Barlier
as Kate
Stéphanie Murat
as Femme de service
Agnès Jaoui
as Marie Collins Brown
Crew
Laurent Bouhnik
Director, Writer
Stéphane Foenkinos
Casting
Tanino Liberatore
Production Design
Raphaël Sohier
Sound Editor
Stefan Zweig
Novel
Christian Marti
Production Design
Lucien Balibar
Sound Editor
Nicolas Becker
Foley Artist
Étienne Comar
Producer
Gilles Taurand
Writer
Michael Nyman
Original Music Composer
Hervé de Luze
Editor
Aymeric Devoldère
Sound Editor
Pierre-Yves Gayraud
Costume Design