Charlie Says (2006 film)

Technopedia Center

Faculty of Engineering and Computer Science
S1 Informatics S1 Information Systems S1 Information Technology S1 Computer Engineering S1 Electrical Engineering S1 Civil Engineering

faculty of Economics and Business
S1 Management S1 Accountancy

Faculty of Letters and Educational Sciences
S1 English literature S1 English language education S1 Mathematics education S1 Sports Education

Charlie Says (2006 film) - Wikipedia

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Charlie Says
Film poster
Directed by	Nicole Garcia
Written by	Frédéric Bélier-Garcia Jacques Fieschi Nicole Garcia
Produced by	Alain Attal
Starring	Jean-Pierre Bacri
Cinematography	Stéphane Fontaine
Edited by	Emmanuelle Castro
Music by	Amélie de Chassey Delphine Mathieu
Distributed by	Mars Distribution
Release date	20 May 2006 (2006-05-20)
Running time	140 minutes
Country	France
Language	French
Budget	$7.8 million
Box office	$8.8 million^[1]

Charlie Says (French: Selon Charlie) is a 2006 French drama film. It was entered into the 2006 Cannes Film Festival.^[2]

Plot

At the end of the school day, 11 year-old Charlie is collected by his father Serge, and they go to an isolated house where Serge has an assignation with his mistress. Silently Charlie plays outside with his boomerang. Pierre is a natural sciences teacher in the collège which Charlie attends; he is perturbed by the appearance of Matthieu, an old colleague. Now a famous archeologist, Mattieu is due to give a series of lectures about a pre-historic hunter (named 'Dirk') who suddenly left his tribe. Local mayor Jean-Louis Bertagnat officiates with great ceremony, albeit clumsily. He later finds relief with his mistress, a young municipal worker. Meanwhile, Joss, who is out on parole, is preparing a new job. Matthieu offers Pierre a place on his expedition but Pierre hesitates. When school closes, Charlie guides him to the isolated house where Pierre finds his wife with Serge. During this time Joss has messed up his robbery and is desperately trying to rid himself of a stolen television. The mayor has noticed all this from the place on the beach he uses for his trysts where, in mid break up, he'd come to reflect. Making his escape Joss is knocked out by Charlie's boomerang. Finally his witness gets Joss off the hook. Pierre decides to stay with his wife. Charlie manages to reconcile his parents. Jean-Louis ultimately goes back to his young lover.^[3]

Cast

Jean-Pierre Bacri as Jean-Louis Bertagnat
Vincent Lindon as Serge
Benoît Magimel as Pierre
Benoît Poelvoorde as Joss
Patrick Pineau as Mathieu
Arnaud Valois as Adrien
Ferdinand Martin as Charlie, son of Serge
Minna Haapkylä as Nora
Sophie Cattani as Séverine
Philippe Lefebvre as Pierre-Yves
Philippe Magnan as Ricordi
Samir Guesmi as Mo
Jérôme Robart as Ballhaus
Valérie Benguigui as Charlie's mother
Grégoire Leprince-Ringuet as Thierry
Jean-Louis Foulquier as the bar manager

Background

The script-writer Frédéric Bélier-Garcia summed up the film as a film about "a contemporary idea of destiny... being none other than that which essentially we wish to avoid, but which catches up with us, overtakes us and finishes face to face - a perilous but vital game between what we are fleeing and what incessantly catches up with us".^[4] Télérama, noting Nicole Garcia's preference for 'films choraux' (Hyperlink cinema), where characters criss-cross, whom she views with undeniable tenderness, and through which she underlines the difficulty in communication between individuals, rather than their potential fraternity.^[5]

References

^ "Selon Charlie (2006) - JPBox-Office".
^ "Festival de Cannes: Charlie Says". festival-cannes.com. Archived from the original on 2011-08-22. Retrieved 2009-12-13.
^ Résumé for Selon Charlie (2005) Nicole Garcia from the Ciné-ressources website accessed 1 December 2024
^ Interview with Frédéric Bélier-Garcia , Dossier de presse, Selon Charlie. Mars Distribution - Le Cercle Noir pour Silenzio.
^ Selon Charlie - Film de Nicole Garcia (France, 2006) - Télérama website accessed 8 December 2024.

External links

Charlie Says at IMDb
Charlie Says at unifrance.org

v t e Films directed by Nicole Garcia
Every Other Weekend (1990) The Favourite Son (1994) Place Vendôme (1998) The Adversary (2002) Charlie Says (2006) A View of Love (2010) Going Away (2013) From the Land of the Moon (2016) Lovers (2020)

This article related to a French film of the 2000s is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by expanding it.

Categories:

Hidden categories: