Same Old Song
Synopsis
Simon secretly loves Camille. Camille, due to a misunderstanding, falls for Marc Duveyrier. Marc, a handsome realtor, who's also Simon's boss, is trying to sell an apartment to Odile Lalande, Camille's sister. Odile really wants this apartment, despite the silent disapproval of her husband, Claude. Claude, somewhat wan in character, finds it hard to stomach the reappearance, after many years, of Nicolas. Nicolas, an old friend of Odile's becomes the confidant of Simon... The dialogue is in part made up of extracts of French hit songs, sung in situation by the actors.
Credits
Director (1)
Actors (25)
Production and distribution (5)
- Executive Producer : Arena Films
- Co-productions : Camera One, France 2 Cinéma
- Foreign production companies : Greenpoint Films, Vega Film
- Film exports/foreign sales : Pathé Films
- French distribution : AMLF
Full credits (12)
- Executive Producer : Bruno Pesery
- Screenwriters : Jean-Pierre Bacri, Agnès Jaoui
- Director of Photography : Renato Berta
- Music Composer : Bruno Fontaine
- Editor : Hervé De Luze
- Sound Recordist : Pierre Lenoir
- Costume designer : Anne Dunsford-Varenne
- Co-producers : Michel Seydoux, Ruth Waldburger
- Production manager : Catherine Chouridis
- Press Attachés (film) : Dominique Segall, Laurent Renard
- Continuity supervisor : Sylvette Baudrot
- Production Designer : Jacques Saulnier
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Technical details
- Type : Feature film
- Genres : Fiction
- Sub-genre : Film musical
- Production language : French
- Coproducer countries : France, Great Britain, Switzerland
- Original French-language productions : Yes
- Nationality : Majority French (France, Great Britain, Switzerland)
- Production year : 1997
- French release : 12/11/1997
- Runtime : 2 h
- Current status : Released
- Visa number : 87.716
- Visa issue date : 22/10/1997
- Approval : Yes
- Production formats : 35mm
- Color type : Color
- Aspect ratio : 1.85
- Audio format : Dolby SRD
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News & awards
Selections (9)
Awards (3)
Berlin International Film Festival
Germany, 1998
Silver Bear for Outstanding Artistic Contribution : Alain Resnais
Delegations (2)
About
"I'm not a great fan of musical comedies, and our major worry in the beginning was: that the sung passage weren't just sketches, that they be part and parcel of the plot and the emotions. And they're not complete songs; it's three lines here, three lines there... and that'd never been done." (Jean-Pierre Bacri)
"Alain had wanted to do a homage to the films of Potter (''The Singing Detective'', ''Pennies from Heaven'' and ''Lipstick on your Collar''...) which he showed us. And I felt the same thing as when he'd talked to us about ''Smoking''... I thought, ''It's daring, it's Resnais, I want to do it''. He said: "I don't know if it's going to work, but I really want to give it a try''. He's a creator, like a painter, who doesn't just want to paint a pretty picture, but to invent something." (Agnès Jaoui)
