La Petite Lili (US Version) DVD Region 1

Handsome, young, naïve, and insufferably pretentious, amateur filmmaker Julien (Robinson Stévenin) and his famous actress mother, Mado (Nicole Garcia), are locked into a power-play at their country house. Jeanne (Julie Depardieu), the daughter of the caretaker, is in love with Julien. But Julien's girlfriend, Lili (Ludivine Sagnier), is irresistibly drawn to the successful feature-film director Brice (Bernard Giraudeau), Mado's longtime lover and the representation of everything Julien hates about filmmaking. This chaos gets drawn out in achingly beautiful, color-drenched shots of blue skies, ocean, trees, and the earthy, ethereal Sagnier in full flower. It's a decidedly post-modern interpretation of Chekhov's THE SEAGULL, by esteemed film director Claude Miller (ALIAS BETTY), wherein the plot eventually doubles back on itself to become a self-reflexive study of filmmaking. Though Miller has a lot to say about the compromises of art, he makes sure his characters are never mere mouthpieces: they all interact like real people, with a refreshing amount of tender affection for one another. The film has all the qualities of the best French imports: warmth, intelligence, humor, and liberal dashes of sex and critical theory. It's the sort of foreign film that originally made foreign films popular in America. Sagnier is clearly her generation's Brigitte Bardot, and Julie Depardieu (Gerard's daughter) proves herself a major talent in a memorable side role.

"[I]t stirs up a fascinating and contradictory mixture of the eternal and the transitory." - Stephen, Holden (New York Times Critic), New York Times, 11/12/2004

"Claude Miller, a French director of dry humor and great skill, has taken the Chekhov outline and updated it to present-day France..." - Roger, Ebert (Critic and screenwriter), Chicago Sun-Times, 12/10/2004

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Product Title:	La Petite Lili (US Version) La Petite Lili (US Version) La Petite Lili (US Version) La Petite Lili (US Version) La Petite Lili (US Version)
Also known as:	La Petite Lili La Petite Lili La Petite Lili La Petite Lili La Petite Lili
Artist Name(s):	Julie Depardieu (Actor) | Robinson Stévenin (Actor) | Jean-Pierre Marielle (Actor) | Nicole Garcia (Actor) | Michel Piccoli (Actor) | Ludivine Sagnier (Actor) | Anne Le Ny (Actor) | Yves Jacques (Actor) Julie Depardieu (Actor) | Robinson Stévenin (Actor) | Jean-Pierre Marielle (Actor) | Nicole Garcia (Actor) | Michel Piccoli (Actor) | Ludivine Sagnier (Actor) | Anne Le Ny (Actor) | Yves Jacques (Actor) Julie Depardieu (Actor) | Robinson Stévenin (Actor) | Jean-Pierre Marielle (Actor) | Nicole Garcia (Actor) | Michel Piccoli (Actor) | Ludivine Sagnier (Actor) | Anne Le Ny (Actor) | Yves Jacques (Actor) Julie Depardieu (Actor) | Robinson Stévenin (Actor) | Jean-Pierre Marielle (Actor) | Nicole Garcia (Actor) | Michel Piccoli (Actor) | Ludivine Sagnier (Actor) | Anne Le Ny (Actor) | Yves Jacques (Actor) Julie Depardieu (Actor) | Robinson Stévenin (Actor) | Jean-Pierre Marielle (Actor) | Nicole Garcia (Actor) | Michel Piccoli (Actor) | Ludivine Sagnier (Actor) | Anne Le Ny (Actor) | Yves Jacques (Actor)
Director:	Claude Miller Claude Miller Claude Miller Claude Miller Claude Miller
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Release Date:	2005-08-23
UPC Code:	720229911702
Language:	French
Subtitles:	English
Country of Origin:	France
Picture Format:	NTSC What is it?
Color Information:	Color
Disc Format(s):	DVD
Region Code:	1 - USA, Canada, U.S. Territories What is it?
Rating:	Not Rated
Publisher:	First Run Features Home Video
Package Weight:	145 (g)
Shipment Unit:	1 What is it?
YesAsia Catalog No.:	1004391194

Director: Claude Miller

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