The Gods Must Be Dancing
Synopsis
In life, everyone runs all the time : to take the lift to the top floor (delivery men), the fire-escape (the thieves), the motorway, the next plane, the next man's seat, the next man's wife. Everyone runs to get somewhere and to be in the race. Because everybody is looking for something : a taxi, a parking place, a job, a bar, a swindle, an escape, a little sushine, money, trouble, ideas, God or "gods". And sometimes, someone happens to find everything that he's looking for.
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Director (1)
Actors (38)
Production and distribution (4)
- Executive Producer : Éléfilm
- Co-productions : STUDIOCANAL, Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes Cinéma, France 3 Cinéma
- Film exports/foreign sales : STUDIOCANAL
- French distribution : AMLF
Full credits (14)
- Executive Producer : Rosalinde Deville
- Adaptation : Michel Deville, Rosalinde Deville
- Director of Photography : André Diot
- Music Composer : Quentin Damamme
- Editor : Raymonde Guyot
- Sound recordists : Jean Minondo, François Groult
- Costume designer : Cécile Balme
- Author of original work : Donald E. Westlake
- Production manager : Edith Colnel
- Press Attaché (film) : François Hassan Guerrar
- Sound editor : Reine Wekstein
- Production Designer : Thierry Leproust
- Sound Mixer : Bruno Tarrière
- Still Photographer : Michel Deville
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Technical details
- Type : Feature film
- Genres : Fiction
- Sub-genre : Comedy, Crime/thriller
- Themes : Mystery
- Production language : French
- Production country : France
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"I don't know what I can do or not to do. I think I change genres with each film yet I can also say that I've never made anything but comedies. I love comedy. I was surprised to surprise people when I suggested adapting Donald Westlake's novel, a crazy novel that imperturbably and obstinately piles up unlikely encounters and twists of fate. I know what the novel made me want to film : a car chase on a motorway at a very slow speed; endless car accidents caused by bad drivers; characters seen from above by a hawk as they fight over a totally inedible object; dogs that topple men like skittles; a man who runs after a woman, him on foot and her in a car; a pretty woman pushing a harp case through the streets; a woman locking her lover who isn't really her lover in a closet; a man, who hopes to become a woman's lover, locking her husband up in a closet, and so one closet leads an other; men and women who decide to start a new life at 13:59; heroes who triumph but not in the way they imagined.." (Michel Deville)
