Synopsis
Paul Giamatti, a famous American actor, is going through an existential crisis. He's trying to find himself, struggling to even find the right tone during the rehearsals for his next play, Uncle Vanya by Anton Chekov.
He then hears about a private laboratory offering a highly intriguing service: here clients can put their souls in storage. The laboratory takes away the troubled soul and can replace it, quite easily, with another available in their catalog.
The proposition is attractive and the actor decides to let go of his soul. This sets off a chain reaction whose scale he could never have imagined.
Credits
Director (1)
Production and distribution (3)
- Co-production : Arte France Cinéma
- Foreign production companies : Touchy Feely Films, Journeyman Pictures
- French distribution : Memento Distribution
Full credits (8)
- Screenwriter : Sophie Barthes
- Director of Photography : Andrij Parekh
- Music Composer : Dickon Hinchliffe
- Editor : Andrew Mondshein
- Costume designer : Erin Benach
- Press Attachés (film) : Laurence Granec, Karine Ménard
- Production Designer : Elizabeth Mickle
- Casting : Daniel Swee
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Technical details
- Type : Feature film
- Genres : Fiction
- Sub-genre : Drama
- Production language : English
- Coproducer countries : France, United States
- Original French-language productions : Unspecified
- Nationality : Minority French (France, United States)
- Production year : 2009
- French release : 05/05/2010
- Runtime : 1 h 41 min
- Current status : Released
- Visa number : 120.973
- Visa issue date : 23/04/2010
- Approval : No
- Production formats : 35mm
- Color type : Color
- Aspect ratio : 1.85
- Audio format : Dolby SRD
- Rating restrictions : None
