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Benoît Magimel, Jeanne Moreau, Marion Cotillard, Sagamore Stévenin, Michel Jonasz ... see more see more... , Denise Chalem , Jacques Pater , Catherine Arditi , Marisa Berenson , Johan Leysen , Filip Peeters , Julia Vaidis-Bogard

A young man's interest in film history leads to a revelation about his own past in this drama. Sam (Benoit Magimel) is a student and film fan who is fascinated by Sylvain Marceau (Sagamore Stevenin), ... read more read more...an actor who had a brief career in the 1930s but seems to have vanished while working on "Princess Marushka," a historical epic that was never completed. Sam decides to make a documentary about Marceau's life and disappearance, and attempts to arrange an interview with Lisa Morain (Jeanne Moreau), a veteran actress who worked with Marceau on "Princess Marushka." Despite her initial reluctance, Sam is able to persuade Lisa to discuss her memories of Marceau, which turn out to be deeper and more personal than he imagined: when she was 22, Lisa met the young Sylvain when both were patients at a tuberculosis sanitarium in the French Alps. Lisa and Sylvain became quite close, and she learned that Sylvain was a Jew, which in Europe in the 1930s was hardly the ticket to a long and uneventful life. As Sam learns more about the story of Lisa and Sylvain, he finds himself increasingly curious about his own past, a subject his parents (Denise Chalem and Michel Jonasz) are not inclined to discuss. Lisa also features Marion Cotillard as the youthful Lisa. ~ Mark Deming, Rovi

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Unrated, 1 hr. 52 min.

Directed by: Pierre Grimblat

Release Date: January 1, 2000

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  • ajv2688
    April 2, 2011
    ajv2688
    This movie is from 1989, not 2001, and it's not French. A young teen gets involved with an older guy over the phone, unaware he's a serial killer. It's good, I recommend it.
  • The80sExpert
    February 24, 2009
    The80sExpert
    This movie will teach your preteen a lesson. Side note: it says you can watch this on flixster, but that's an older movie of the same name, not this movie!
  • pheinbaugh
    January 16, 2009
    pheinbaugh
    You can see this being a typical love story almost from the beginning. But it was alot better than I thought it would be.
  • jameseric
    May 2, 2006
    jameseric
    A dark thriller that upset me immensely as a kid and in the contemporary age of Internet meet-ups gone awry, this film is even more eerie and relevant today. Seek this one out.

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