Nearest to Heaven
Synopsis
One evening, Fanny encounters Bernard, a man she knew back when they were students. It’s clear that he’d been in love with her and that she loved someone else by the name of Philippe. Hearing his name reawakens her senses. She coldly rejects Bernard’s advances and he slaps her face in exchange. As though to punish her, he promises to – maybe – give her address to Philippe.
Fanny sits in a cinema watching “An Affair to Remember.” Cary Grant and Deborah Kerr at last get together after missing each other on top of the Empire State Building. She catches a glimpse of a man in a gray suit – could it be Philippe? When she approaches the shadowy figure, it disappears.
Fanny is writing a book about a painter, François Arnal. The book is nearly completed, however she still needs to photograph two paintings from 1953 that belong to private collectors in New York. Arnal’s paintings are abstract, full of signs with which he tells stories and she invents others.
She has recently shifted apartments....
Credits
Director (1)
Actors (14)
Production and distribution (6)
- Executive Producers : Maïa Films, Pyramide Productions
- Co-productions : Tabo Tabo Films, Havas Images, Gimages, France 2 Cinéma
- Foreign production companies : Lolafilms, Cinémaginaire
- Film exports/foreign sales : Pyramide International
- French distribution : Pyramide Distribution
- News agency (France) : Moteur !
Full credits (16)
- Executive Producers : Gilles Sandoz, Fabienne Vonier, Olivier Bomsel
- Screenwriters : Tonie Marshall, Anne-Louise Trividic
- Director of photography : Agnès Godard
- Music Composers : François Dompierre, Jérôme Rebotier, David Hadjadj
- Assistant director : Aude Cathelin
- Editor : Jacques Comets
- Sound recordists : Jean-Jacques Ferran, Béatrice Wick, Jean-Pierre Laforce
- Costume designers : Marielle Robaut, Ginette Magny, Jean-Paul Gaultier, Friquette Thévenet
- Author of original work : Tonie Marshall
- Line Producer : Alain Peyrollaz
- Assistant Operator : Pauline Coste
- Press Attaché (film) : Dominique Segall
- Assistant Editor : Mike Fromentin
- Continuity supervisor : Claudine Taulère
- Production Designers : Pierre-François Limbosch, Ginette Robitaille
- Casting : Marion Tenet, Jeanne Millet
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Technical details
- Type : Feature film
- Genres : Fiction
- Sub-genre : Drama
- Production language : French, English
- Coproducer countries : France, Spain, Canada
- Original French-language productions : Yes
