Le Coût de la vie
Synopsis
A compulsive miser who won’t pay his restaurant bill.
A restaurant owner whose generosity is making him go broke.
A mysterious women who’s determined to make men pay.
A factory owner who sells off his factories at cut-rate prices after a heart attack.
A young woman who has just come into a large inheritance who wants to be loved just for herself.
During the course of a few days, these characters will cross paths. Through their interwoven stories, “Le coût de la vie” tries to identify our personal relationship with money.
Where does our ability to handle money or our casual attitude to it spring from? Why do some people spend in a frenetic way while others cling on to their money as though it were one of the most vital parts of their being?
We think we’re talking about money, but in fact we’re talking about love.
Credits
Director (1)
Actors (43)
Production and distribution (4)
- Executive Producer : Les Films des Tournelles
- Co-productions : M6 Films, Pathé Production, Gimages, Renn Productions
- Film exports/foreign sales : Pathé Films
- French distribution : Pathé Films
Full credits (22)
- Executive Producer : Anne-Dominique Toussaint
- Screenwriters : Philippe Le Guay, Jean-Francois Goyet
- Director of Photography : Laurent Machuel
- Music Composer : Philippe Rombi
- Assistant directors : Gilles Balézeaux, Gabriel Levy, Yvon Rouve
- Editor : Martine Giordano
- Sound recordists : Laurent Poirier, Stéphane Reichart, Jean Goudier
- Costume designer : Anne Schotte
- Producer : Romain Le Grand
- Associate producers : Pascal Judelewicz, Jérôme Seydoux
- Co-producer : Claude Berri
- Sound assistants : Vincent Goujon, Yves-Marie Omnès, Olivier Villette
- Assistant Operators : Thomas Bataille, Stephen Mack
- Camera Operator : Adam Rozanski
- Production Manager : Jean-Jacques Albert
- Press Attaché (film) : Alexandra Schamis
- Assistant editors : Éric Armbruster, Marie Da Costa, Christel Dewynter
- Continuity supervisor : Sylvie Koechlin
- Foley artist : Patrick Egreteau
- Casting : Frédérique Moidon
- Sound mixers : Dominique Hennequin, Christophe Vingtrinier
- Still Photographer : Emilie De La Hosseraye
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Technical details
- Type : Feature film
- Genres : Fiction
- Sub-genre : Drama
- Production language : French
- Production country : France
- Original French-language productions : Unspecified
- Nationality : 100% French (France)
- Production year : 2002
- French release : 30/07/2003
- Runtime : 1 h 40 min
- Current status : Released
- Visa number : 104.582
- Visa issue date : 18/07/2003
- Approval : Yes
- Production formats : 35mm
- Color type : Color
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