Chacun son cinéma ou Ce petit coup au coeur quand la lumière s'éteint et que le film commence (2007)

Directors:

Theodoros Angelopoulos
Olivier Assayas

Writers:

Manoel de Oliveira (dialogue) (segment)
Manoel de Oliveira (scenario) (segment) ...

Release Date:

31 October 2007 (France)

Genre:

Comedy | Drama

Plot:

A collective film of 33 shorts directed by different directors about their feeling about Cinema. |

Plot Keywords:

Surrealism | Cinema | Avant Garde | Hommage | Long Title

Cast

Isabelle Adjani	...	Herself (segment "47 Ans Après") (archive footage)
Anouk Aimée	...	(segment "Cinéma de Boulevard") (archive footage)
Leonid Alexeenko	...	(segment "Irtebak")
Antonin Artaud	...	(segment "Artaud Double Bill") (archive footage)
Fred Astaire	...	(segment "Cinéma de Boulevard") (archive footage)
George Babluani	...	The thief (segment "Recrudescence")
Brigitte Bardot	...	(segment "Anna") (voice) (archive footage)
Cindy Beckett	...	Supporting
Josh Brolin	...	(segment "World cinema")
Caju	...	Himself (segment "À 8 944 km de Cannes")
Carl-Erik Calamnius	...	Ticket Man (segment "La Fonderie")
Castanha	...	Himself (segment "À 8 944 km de Cannes")
Youssef Chahine	...	Himself (segment "47 Ans Après")
Charles Chaplin	...	(segment "Zhanxiou Village") (archive footage)
Antoine Chappey	...	Le Secrétaire de Khrouchtchev (segment "Rencontre unique")
Maury Chaykin	...	(segment "Artaud Double Bill") (archive footage)
Farini Cheung	...	The Woman (segment "I Travelled 9000 kilometers To Give It To You")
Maurice Chevalier	...	(segment "Épilogue") (archive footage)
Casper Christensen	...	(segment "The Last Dating Show")
Jean Cocteau	...	Himself (segment "47 Ans Après") (archive footage)
Yves Courbet	...	(segment "No Translation Needed")
David Cronenberg	...	The suicidal man (segment "At the suicide of the last Jew in the world in the last cinema in the world")
Anne-Marie Louise Curry	...	(segment "The Last Dating Show")
Willem Dafoe	...	(segment "Occupations") (archive footage)
Audrey Dana	...	Claude Lelouch's mother (segment "Cinéma de boulevard")
Duarte de Almeida	...	Le Pape Jean XXIII (segment "Rencontre unique")
Émilie Dequenne	...	The crying woman (segment "Dans l'obscurité")
Marcelle Derrien	...	(segment "Épilogue") (archive footage)
Lionel Dray	...	The boyfriend (segment "Recrudescence")
Jean-Claude Dreyfus	...	The husband (segment "Cinéma érotique")
Yousra El Lozy	...	The girl (segment "47 Ans Après")
Erica Englert	...	The Bug (segment "The Lady Bug")
Deniz Gamze Ergüven	...	The young woman (segment "Recrudescence")
Maria Falconetti	...	(segment "Artaud Double Bill") (archive footage)
Wing Fan	...	The Woman (segment "I Travelled 9000 kilometers To Give It To You")
Sara Forestier	...	The usherette (segment "Cinéma érotique")
Jacques Frantz	...	The annoying businessman (segment "Occupations")
Pierre Fresnay	...	(segment "Cinéma de Boulevard") (archive footage)
Jean Gabin	...	(segment "Cinéma de Boulevard") (archive footage)
Daria Gratcheva	...	(segment "Dans le Noir")
Aleksei Grishin	...	(segment "Dans le Noir")
Miriam Heard	...	The young woman (segment 'Le Don')
Grant Heslov	...	(segment "World cinema")
Bryce Dallas Howard	...	(segment "Occupations") (archive footage)
Frank Hvam	...	(segment "The Last Dating Show")
Matti Hyvönen	...	Worker (segment "La Fonderie")
Kristian Ibler	...	(segment "The Last Dating Show")
Clayton Jacobson	...	The Man / The Voices #3 (segment "The Lady Bug")
Anna Karina	...	(segment "Artaud Double Bill") (archive footage)
Karim Kassem	...	Young Youssef Chahine (segment "47 Ans Après")
Arsinée Khanjian	...	(segment "Artaud Double Bill") (archive footage)
Takeshi Kitano	...	The projectionist (segment "Rencontre unique") (as Beat Takeshi)
Joachim Knop	...	(segment "The Last Dating Show")
Sylvia Kristel	...	Emmanuelle (segment "Cinéma érotique") (archive footage)
Viva Las Vegas	...	The sunbather (segment "First Kiss")
Édith Le Merdy	...	Wife (segment "Cinéma érotique")
Geneviève Lemon	...	The Voices #1 (segment "The Lady Bug") (voice) (as Genevieve Lemon)
Man Li	...	The girl (segment "En Regardent le Film")
Michael Lonsdale	...	The old blind man (segment "Le Don")
Yulai Lu	...	The projectionist (segment "En Regardent le Film")
Sara-Marie Maltha	...	(segment "The Last Dating Show")
Marcello Mastroianni	...	(segment "Trois Minutes") (archive footage)
Marney McQueen	...	The Voices #2 (segment "The Lady Bug") (voice)
Jeanne Moreau	...	The old woman / Herself (segment "Trois Minutes")
Nanni Moretti	...	Himself (segment "Diario di uno spettatore")
Michèle Morgan	...	Herself (segment "47 Ans Après") (archive footage)
Juliana Muñoz	...	(segment "No Translation Needed")
Kim Novak	...	Herself (segment "47 Ans Après") (archive footage)
Peter Hesse Overgaard	...	(segment "The Last Dating Show")
Paul Parson	...	The projectionist (segment "First Kiss")
Michel Piccoli	...	(segment "Anna") (voice) (archive footage)
Denis Podalydès	...	The manager (segment "Cinéma de boulevard")
Peter Reichhardt	...	(segment "The Last Dating Show")
Ginger Rogers	...	(segment "Cinéma de Boulevard") (archive footage)
Marie-Christine Moller Salmi	...	Cashier (segment "La Fonderie")
Yola Sanko	...	Crying Woman (segment "Dans le Noir")
Jérémie Segard	...	The thief (segment "Dans l'obscurité")
Brooke Smith	...	(segment "World cinema")
Zinedine Soualem	...	Claude Lelouch's father (segment "Cinéma de boulevard")
Elia Suleiman	...	The filmmaker (segment "Irtebak")
Jean-Louis Trintignant	...	(segment "Cinéma de Boulevard") (archive footage)
Erich von Stroheim	...	(segment "Cinéma de Boulevard") (archive footage)
Lars von Trier	...	The filmmaker (segment "Occupations")
Michel Vuillermoz	...	The groaning man (segment "Cinéma de boulevard")
Liang Wang	...	Boy (segment "En Regardent le Film")
Maya Waterman	...	Patron (segment "Anna")
Luisa Williams	...	Anna (segment "Anna")

Also Known As:

Chacun son cinéma (France) (short title)
To Each His Cinema (International: English title)

Runtime:

100 min | Canada:119 min (Toronto International Film Festival)

Country:

France

Language:

Mandarin | English | French | Spanish | Danish | Finnish | Hebrew | Italian | Japanese | Portuguese | Russian | Yiddish

Colour:

Black and White | Colour

Certification:

Japan:PG-12 | Canada:G | South Korea:15

Filming Locations:

Alexandria, Egypt

Company:

Cannes Film Festival

Movie Connections:

References Paris, Texas (1984)

Soundtrack:

Cheek to Cheek

Collection of short films about movie going is good for most viewers however hardcore movie lovers will have a blast

This film is impossible to really describe accurately other than to say it 34 short (3 to 4 minutes) films about the movies and movie going. Covering a variety of topics from comedy and tragedy to documentary this is the a look at how many famous directors see the cinema.

I saw this on a Chinese DVD, which has 33 of the 34 movie done by various directors (only the Cohen Brothers contribution is missing). Most of the films are good, a couple are not bad rather they illicit a "what was that about" reaction and a few are glorious, explaining why the cinema is something so magical. I'm not sure this really is a film for all film goers since the films can be rather oblique, not to mention the ride is bumpy with a poor film sandwiched between a couple winners (or vice versa). I would love to critique each film, but that is dangerous since the films are so short it may reveal too much. I think the best way to see this film (as suggested by another poster) is to simply watch each film and wait to see what happens. In most cases the director isn't named until the end so you can simply watch each film without any sort of expectation. Granted some films are obvious as to who made them since the directors appear, but many of the others are not so clear.(I was right about half the time and wrong about half) Definitely worth a look. This is a must see for anyone deeply passionate about the movies and going to them.