Le Bison & His Neighbor Dorine
Synopsis
He gets home at dawn, when she's putting out the trash. She vacuums when he's trying to get to sleep. He starts playing the piano right when she's putting her kids to bed. They live in neighboring apartments, but they're a world apart.
She's Dorine, the building super who struggles with her uncaring husband, her four and one half children and the afternoon TV soaps. He is Louis Le Bison, a slightly gruff 30-year-old, a fast liver who has seen it all.
When her husband leaves with his lover, both their lives are turned upside down.
At first reticent about a family which is so foreign to him, Le Bison comes to their rescue in spite of himself. He, the hedonistic dilletant, is drawn into an infernal machine, winds up involved in Dorine's life, taking her place, taking out the garbage and delivering the mail.
Thanks to the incredibly adult, calm and confident children, Louis Le Bison finally gets a taste of the pleasure of being alive, the pleasure that comes with action.
Credits
Director (1)
Actors (28)
Production and distribution (5)
- Executive Producer : Pathé Production
- Co-productions : Pathé Production, Hirsch, Renn Productions, TF1 Films Production, Canal+
- Film exports/foreign sales : Pathé Films
- French distribution : Pathé Films
- News agency (France) : Moteur !
Full credits (22)
- Executive Producer : Claude Berri
- Screenwriters : Isabelle Nanty, Fabrice Roger-Lacan
- Director of Photography : Philippe Pavans De Cecatty
- Music Composer : Jérôme Bensoussain
- Assistant director : Cécile Chaspoul
- Editor : Catherine Renault
- Sound Recordist : Jean Umansky
- Costume designers : Sylvie Gautrelet, Ignatus
- Producer : Claude Berri
- Line Producer : Pierre Grunstein
- Co-producer : Nathalie Rheims
- Sound assistant : Sophie Chiabaut
- Assistant Operators : Maxime Cointe, Pauline Teran
- Camera Operator : Éric Le Roux
- Press Attaché (film) : Dominique Segall
- Sound Editor : Alexandre Widmer
- Assistant editors : Carlos Pinto, Marcela Figueroa
- Production Assistant : Virginia Anderson
- Continuity supervisor : Patrick Aubrée
- Production Designer : Thierry Flamand
- Sound Mixer : Jean-Paul Hurier
- Still Photographer : David Koskas
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Technical details
- Type : Feature film
- Genres : Fiction
- Sub-genre : Comedy
- Themes : The neighborhood
- Production language : French
- Production country : France
- Original French-language productions : Unspecified
- Nationality : 100% French (France)
- Production year : 2003
- French release : 04/06/2003
- Runtime : 1 h 38 min
- Current status : Released
- Visa number : 105.448
- Visa issue date : 28/02/2003
- Approval : Yes
- Production formats : 35mm
- Color type : Color
- Aspect ratio : 1.85
- Audio format : Dolby DTS
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