Modern Life
Synopsis
A woman who wants to have a baby, a teenager in search of herself, a man who appears to have lost everything... Because each one has their own story to tell. What does it matter that these storeis don't recieve top billing: a story is life. For this life to become " the story " we must simply seize the flame that fires us, the being within. Sharpen our gaze, render visible that which, in these hectic modern times of ours, we tend to forget: life.
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Director (1)
Actors (28)
Production and distribution (4)
- Executive Producer : Gemini Films
- Co-productions : Les Films du Camélia, STUDIOCANAL, Light Night
- Film exports/foreign sales : STUDIOCANAL
- French distribution : Gemini Films
Full credits (21)
- Executive Producer : Paulo Branco
- Screenwriters : Laurence Ferreira Barbosa, Yvonne Kerouedan, Bruno Guiblet
- Director of Photography : Christophe Beaucarne
- Music Composer : Faton Cahen
- Assistant director : Valérie Megard
- Editor : Yann Dedet
- Sound Recordist : Henri Maïkoff
- Costume designer : Nathalie Raoul
- Voice : Philippe Rebbot
- Sound Assistant : Philippe Donnefort
- Assistant Operators : Guillaume Deffontaines, Ursula Sigon
- Production Manager : Stéphane Riga
- Press Attaché (film) : Agnès Chabot
- Sound editor : Marie-France Poulizac
- Assistant editor : Marie Da Costa
- Continuity supervisor : Bénédicte Darblay
- Production Designer : Yves Fournier
- Foley artist : Nicolas Becker
- Sound Mixer : Hans Kunzi
- Still photographers : Moune Jamet, Nathalie Eno
- Location Manager : Jean-Dominique Chouchan
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Technical details
- Type : Feature film
- Genres : Fiction
- Production language : French
- Coproducer countries : France, Switzerland
- Original French-language productions : Yes
- Nationality : Majority French (France, Switzerland)
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About
Mixing genres opens new perspectives, which I find exciting. I like to walk on the edge, off-balance. But only if the genres aren’t too codified, so that you can play with them and bend them. If I can’t break free of them, I’m not interested. Serendipity should always play a role. I’m not so much interested in conforming to the mold of a genre film as I am in playing on atmosphere and viewpoints, in combining aloofness, humor, emotion, and detachment. That’s the way I understand and recount things. I don’t like things to be too straightforward.
Laurence Ferreira Barbosa, Director
