Change my Life
Synopsis
Nina, 45, is a stage actress. Some twelve or so years ago, when her career was really taking off in Paris, she left everything behind. Why? To perform Jean Genêt’s plays in Russia. For whom? A Russian director she was in love with. The affair over, Nina returns to Paris. She wants to keep acting, but all she has in her favor is her determination. A friend, Nadine, either for reasons of friendship or to stave off loneliness, offers Nina lodgings in the room above her apartment and work in her gallery. For now, just while Nina’s ‘between jobs’. One day, totally depressed, and assailed by a feeling that she’s messed up her life, Nina panics and swallows some sleeping pills. She staggers into the street and collapses in Batignolles Square. People walk on by, taking sidelong glances, not stopping. Except for Sami, an Algerian man in his thirties, who is training in the park. Once out of hospital, Nina wants to find the man who saved her. The only person who came to her rescue… Nina, screwed-up actress, falls for Sami, Algerian marathon runner whose broken dreams have forced him into prostitution as a transvestite. He clings to this love affair in order to not sink any lower. They both fight tooth and nail to change their situation, to rescue one another. But Nina relies too heavily on Sami; he goes under. Nina backs off, Sami can no longer get her back…
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Director (1)
Actors (30)
Production and distribution (3)
- Executive Producer : Pan-Européenne (Pan Cinéma)
- Film exports/foreign sales : Goodfellas
- French distribution : Wild Bunch Distribution
Full credits (18)
- Executive Producer : Philippe Godeau
- Adaptation : Liria Bégéja, Jérôme Beaujour, François-Olivier Rousseau
- Screenwriter : Liria Bégéja
- Dialogue Writers : Liria Bégéja, Jérôme Beaujour, François-Olivier Rousseau
- Director of Photography : Laurent Machuel
- Music Composer : Cheb Mami
- Assistant director : Carole Amen
- Editor : Luc Barnier
- Sound recordists : Didier Saïn, Nicolas Naegelen, Daniel Sobrino, Philippe Escanecrabe
- Costume designer : Fabio Perrone
- Assistant Operators : Stephen Mack, Piotr Stadnicki
- Camera Operator : Thomas Bataille
- Production manager : Sylvie Balland
- Press Attaché (film) : Michèle Abitbol-Lasry
- Assistant editor : Julia Grégory
- Continuity supervisor : Bérengère Saint-Bezar
- Production Designer : Laurent Allaire
- Casting : Gérard Moulevrier
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Technical details
- Type : Feature film
- Genres : Fiction
- Themes : Homosexuality, Love
- Production language : French
- Production country : France
- Original French-language productions : Unspecified
- Nationality : 100% French (France)
- Production year : 2000
- French release : 28/11/2001
- Runtime : 1 h 41 min
- Current status : Released
- Visa number : 100.071
- Visa issue date : 30/10/2001
- Approval : Yes
- Production formats : 35mm
- Color type : Color
- Aspect ratio : 1.85
- Audio format : Dolby SRD
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