Rating: R
Genre: Comedy Drama
Theatrical Release: 02/09/2001(USA
Release Date: 02/26/2002
SubTitles: English
Dubbed: French
Sound: DD5.1
Run Time: 112 Minutes
Flags: Adult Situations, Not For Children, Adult Humor, Profanity, Sexual Situations
Distributor/Studio: Miramax

Agnes Jaoui co-writes and directs this romantic comedy of manners set in France's rustic Provence. Unpolished and ultra-pragmatic industrialist Jean-Jacques Castella (co-scripter Jean-Pierre Bacri) reluctantly attends Racine's tragedy "Berenice" in order to see his niece play a bit part. He is taken with the play's strangely familiar-looking leading lady Clara Devaux (Anne Alvaro). During the course of the show, Castella soon remembers that he once hired and then promptly fired the actress as an English language tutor. He immediately goes out and signs up for language lessons. Thinking that he is nothing but an ill-tempered philistine with bad taste, Clara rejects him until Castella charms her off her feet.

~ Jonathan Crow, All Movie Guide

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Cast:
Jean-Pierre Bacri - Jean-Jacques Castella
Anne Alvaro - Clara Devaux
Agnès Jaoui - Manie
Gérard Lanvin - Moreno
Alain Chabat - Deschamps
Brigitte Catillon - Beatrice
Christiane Millet - Angelique
Vladimir Yordanoff - Antoine
Sam Karmann -

Production:
Agnès Jaoui - Director
Christian Berard Charles Gassot - Producer
Hervé de Luze - Editor
Jean-Pierre Bacri Agnès Jaoui - Screen Writer
Francois Emmanuelli - Art Director
Jacques Hinstin - Executive Producer
Dominique Gaborieau - Sound/Sound Designer
Jean-Pierre Duret - Sound/Sound Designer
Ann Dunsford-Varenne - Costume Designer

Happenstance
    Audrey Tautou / R / 2000
The Housekeeper
    Jean-Pierre Bacri / R / 2002

2000 Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Scie

2000 Montréal World Film Festival

2000 French Academy of Cinema

2000 European Film Academy