Dry Cleaning
Synopsis
In times gone by, it would have been called a den of iniquity: now it's just a provincial night club, near the train station, with "hostesses" and a strip show. One evening a group of friends on a binge, all shopkeepers in the same street, come there to party. Among them are Jean-Marie and his wife Nicole. Fifteen years of love and fidelity, in a dry cleaners in the town center, working like slaves, scouring the slightest stain... No holidays, no outings... And then one evening, everything changes... On stage at "La Nuit des Temps" appears a young boy, disturbing to say the least, doing a transvestite number with his sister. His name is Loïc, he looks like an angel and he's playing it up. For Nicole and Jean-Marie this is the start of a new life: dry-cleaners by day, and out on the tiles by night... At first they play along, for the pleasure of strong sensations, for the thrill... Then, in time, deeper feelings surface. Unthinkable feelings...
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Director (1)
Actors (9)
Production and distribution (4)
- Executive Producers : Les Films Alain Sarde, Ciné-@
- Foreign production company : Maestranza Films
- Film exports/foreign sales : Tamasa Distribution
- French distribution : AMLF
Full credits (16)
- Executive Producers : Philippe Carcassonne, Alain Sarde
- Sound Recordist : Jean-Claude Laureux
- Screenwriters : Anne Fontaine, Gilles Taurand
- Director of photography : Caroline Champetier
- Sound assistant : Brigitte Taillandier
- Camera operators : Julien Hirsch, François Mestoudjian
- Production manager : Michèle Arnould
- Editor : Luc Barnier
- Assistant editor : Julia Grégory
- Continuity supervisor : Marguerite Perlado
- Production Designer : Antoine Platteau
- Music Composer : Patrice Renson
- Casting : Frédérique Moidon, Sylvie Matton
- Costume designer : Élisabeth Tavernier
- Sound Mixer : Jean-Pierre Laforce
- Still Photographers : Moune Jamet, David Koskas, Isabelle Weingarten
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- Type : Feature film
- Genres : Fiction
- Sub-genre : Drama
- Production language : French
- Coproducer countries : France, Spain
- Original French-language productions : Yes
- Nationality : Majority French (France, Spain)
- Production year : 1997
- French release : 24/09/1997
- Runtime : 1 h 37 min
- Current status : Released
- Visa number : 89.462
- Visa issue date : 01/10/1997
- Approval : Yes
- Production formats : 35mm
- Color type : Color
- Aspect ratio : 1.66
- Audio format : Dolby SR
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News & awards
Selections (9)
Awards (3)
Cesar Awards - French film industry awards
France, 1998
César Award for Most Promising Actor : Stanislas Merhar
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About
"If I had played with lesser people, I'd surely have been terrible. Everyone was very trusting of me, especially Anne, but also Charles Berling and Miou-Miou. In them I felt two actors in tune with my beginnings. I was also very impressed with Caroline Champetier. I felt supported, but not safe. I suppose one is never really safe in front of a camera. I didn't control it, I didn't hear myself speak. I had wanted to master a certain vocal register, but I couldn't; it just came out like it did. It's best not to ask too many questions and just go for it." (Stanislas Merhar)
