The Smile
Synopsis
When François le Clainche, a sixty-year old professor emeritus of neuropsychiatry, is told that his next heart attack is just around the corner and will almost certainly be fatal, he ought to feel depressed. Only natural. what is less natural is that instead of taking things easy and following the advice of his doctor -- who also happens to be his wife -- our professor gets hopelessly hooked on Odile's smile. Odile ? Odile. A ball of fire. Twenty-five years old and a knockout. Tennis teacher and fantasy queen. What does Odile "get off" on ? One. The swings at the local carnival. Two, and this really sends her : the "Roule-Roule", a strip-joint run by Jean-Jean the barker, a big-time operator on the carny circuit. Three, a mysterious ailment. Fully aware that his days are numbered, Professor le clainche, takes off on the backroads of France in pursuit of his madcap adventure...
Credits
Director (1)
Actors (16)
Production and distribution (4)
- Executive Producers : Les Films de la Boissière, F comme Film
- Co-production : TF1 Films Production
- Film exports/foreign sales : Tamasa Distribution
- French distributors : Pathé Films, AMLF
Full credits (17)
- Executive Producers : Jean-Louis Livi, Annie Miller
- Adaptation : Claude Miller
- Screenwriter : Claude Miller
- Director of Photography : Guillaume Schiffman
- Music Composers : Antoine Ouvrier, Vincent Glenn, Pierre Boscheron
- Assistant directors : Nathan Miller, Valérie Othnin-Girard
- Editor : Anne Lafarge
- Sound recordists : Paul Lainé, Gérard Lamps
- Costume designer : Jacqueline Bouchard
- Line Producers : Annie Miller, Jean-José Richer
- Assistant Operator : Éric Vallée
- Production Manager : Daniel Chevalier
- Continuity supervisor : Sylvie Koechlin
- Production Designer : Jean-Pierre Kohut-Svelko
- Casting : Sherif Scouri, Amélie Bérard
- Sales Agent : Raphaël Berdugo
- Still Photographers : Luc Roux, Loïc Marrec
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Technical details
- Type : Feature film
- Genres : Fiction
- Sub-genre : Drama
- Production language : French
- Production country : France
- Original French-language productions : Unspecified
