Adultery (A User's Guide)

A Feature film of

Christine Pascal

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Ciné Manufacture

Production year1995

French release05/07/1995

Runtime1 h 35 min

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Twenty-four hours in the life of a couple in the harsh world of a big city, twenty-four hours leading to a possible solution to the eternal misunderstanding opposing man's quest for sex and woman's quest for love...

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Christine Pascal
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Production and distribution (4)

Executive Producer : Ciné Manufacture

Co-productions : PXP Productions, France 2 Cinéma

Foreign production company : RTS - Radio Télévision Suisse

French distributors : Polygram, Pan-Européenne (Pan Cinéma)

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Executive Producer : Robert Boner

Screenwriters : Christine Pascal, Robert Boner

Director of Photography : Renato Berta

Music Composer : Bruno Coulais

Assistant directors : Laurent Herbiet, Valérie Aragües, Andréas Meszaros, Hiromi Rollin

Editor : Jacques Comets

Sound Recordist : Jean-Jacques Ferran

Costume designer : Anne Schotte

Sound Assistant : Xavier Griette

Assistant Operators : Raphaël Mulard, Jean-Paul Toraille

Press Attachés (film) : Gabrielle Mairesse, Stéphane Ribola

Sound Editor : Waldir Xavier

Continuity supervisor : Olivia Bruynoghe

Production Designer : Sylvie Olivé

Sound Mixer : Jean-Pierre Laforce

Still Photographer : Bernard Barbereau

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Type : Feature film
Genres : Fiction
Sub-genre : Drama
Themes : Relationships
Production language : French
Coproducer countries : France, Switzerland

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Selections (3)

French Film Festival in Sarasota
United States, 1995
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Montreal World Film Festival
Canada, 1995
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French Film Festival in Yokohama
Japan, 1995
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"For me, the whole film is based on one simple observation : while adultery is a sexual luxury for men, women have to make up something to cling to and imagine that they are in love. Women make a big deal about adultery in particular and sexual relations in general. Why bring in feelings at all costs, the beatings of the heart, when it's simply a matter of fulfilling a much simpler need ? There's a sort of subconscious female hypocrisy at work here. A way of making oneself innocent of the deed by making it much more important than it actually is. The pleasure taken and given could suffice... There are of course men who fall in love, but even if they do, they move on to something else once the relationship has been consummated. Men always manage to work things out so that nothing is taken from them. Or if woman does manage to take something from a man, she takes everything, like a praying mantis."
(Christine Pascal)