False Confessions

False Confessions

2017•1h 25m•5.2/10

DramaComedyTV Movie

Ratings

🎬TMDb

5.2/10(12)

Dorante, an impoverished young man, is taken on as a secretary by Araminte, a rich widow with whom he is secretly in love. The valet Dubois does all he can to get Araminte to fall in love with Dorante. Following his staging of Marivaux’s comedy at the Odéon theater, Luc Bondy turns the whole theater building into a film studio, placing his actors in the foyer, under the stage, in the kitchens, using the most unusual and unexpected spots to invent a new dynamic between theater and film.

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FR

Status

Released

Release Date

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Cast

Isabelle Huppert

Isabelle Huppert

Araminte

Louis Garrel

Louis Garrel

Dorante

Bulle Ogier

Bulle Ogier

Madame Argante

Yves Jacques

Yves Jacques

Dubois

Manon Combes

Manon Combes

Marton

Bernard Verley

Bernard Verley

Monsieur Rémy

Jean-Pierre Malo

Jean-Pierre Malo

Comte Dorimont

Fred Ulysse

Fred Ulysse

Arlequin

Sylvain Levitte

Garçon Joaillier

Georges Fatna

Laquais John

Arnaud Mattlinger

Le professeur de Tai Chi

Nicolas Peduzzi

Un secrétaire

Christophe Tolazzi

Le chauffeur

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