Tempest (in a Tea Pot)
Synopsis
For Max, faithful to Sophia for seven years, it's a hard knock. Jean, his best friend, tries to console him... Though he doesn't share his principles, he understands Max. It's terrible to be back on the pick-up scene; Max had thought himself beyond all that. Jean doesn't let up, he doesn't want him to go under. But he really lays it on thick every time Max seems on the upswing and things with Sophia seem better. He causes him to doubt anew. One wonders what his game is. Does he want to push Max off the brink ? Happily, this is a comedy.
Credits
Director (1)
Actors (8)
Production and distribution (3)
- Executive Producer : Paris New-York Production
- Co-production : Double A Films
- French distribution : Swift
Full credits (11)
- Executive Producers : Claude Kunetz, Marc Piton
- Screenwriters : Arnold Barkus, Jackie Berroyer
- Directors of Photography : Michael Barrow, Bertrand Mouly
- Music Composer : Jonathan Sampson
- Editor : Isabelle Dedieu
- Sound recordists : Frédéric Ullman, Neil Riha
- Costume designers : Kathryn Nixon, Marie-Laure Lasson, Diane Pernet
- Author of original work : Jackie Berroyer
- Press Attaché (film) : Laurence Granec
- Production Designers : Aleksandar Denic, Laurent Allaire, Bernhart Blythe
- Still Photographer : Laurence Tremolet
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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
- Nationality : 100% French (France)
- Production year : 1997
- French release : 10/12/1997
- Runtime : 1 h 35 min
- Current status : Released
- Visa number : 89.063
- Visa issue date : 08/12/1997
- Approval : Yes
- Production formats : 35mm
- Color type : Color
- Aspect ratio : 1.85
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About
"The story revolves around a woman we never see, "Sophia". We've barely put a face to this lady when we start questioning the very possibility of her existence. The Greeks knew this long ago. Like the prophet Tiresias, one must be blind to see the truth. Be wary of appearances, revelation lies elsewhere. The viewer finds himself in the same situation as Max, for whom the confusion of fiction and reality becomes tragi-comic. The ultimate irony, is when the truth is revealed by the intervention of Vita, herself a true dissembler. It is through artifice that we discover the truth, or rather "wisdom"... like the muses of time past..." (Arnold Barkus)
