Private Fears in Public Places (2006) on Netflix
Thierry, an estate agent in Paris, searches for a flat for Nicole and Dan, whose relationship is unraveling. Dan drinks at Lionel's bar; Thierry's young sister Gaëlle answers a personal ad.
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Plot summary
In Paris, Thierry works as an estate agent and shares a flat with his much younger sister Gaëlle, who answers personal advertisements and waits in cafés to meet strangers. He is trying to find an apartment for Nicole and Dan, a couple whose relationship is unraveling. Dan was dismissed from the army and now spends his days in a bar, telling his troubles to Lionel, the patient barman whose father, Arthur, lies bed-ridden at home. Charlotte, Thierry's colleague, is a devout Christian who gives him an evangelical television program on video and spends her evenings caring for the foul-mouthed Arthur.
Cast
- Roger Mollienas soldat poète émission TV
Did you know?!Facts and trivia about Private Fears in Public Places (2006)
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- For his second Alan Ayckbourn adaptation, after Smoking/No Smoking, Alain Resnais kept the play's structure but moved the setting from provincial England to the 13th arrondissement of Paris, contrary to his usual preference.
- The film is built from over 50 short scenes, usually with two characters, linked by dissolves of falling snow, a device Resnais had used before in L'Amour à mort.
