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Apr 20, 1983
110 min
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Life Is a Bed of Roses (1983)

In this whimsical fable, Resnais deftly interweaves three story lines: the creation of an early-20th-century utopia; romantic high jinks at a school conference; and a fantasy sparked by F/X pioneer Georges Méliès.

Category

Drama Comedy

Country

France

Companies

Soprofilms Fideline Films Filmédis Les Films Ariane Films A2

Vittorio Gassman

Walter Guarini

Ruggero Raimondi

Count Michel Forbek

Fanny Ardant

Livia Cerasquier

Geraldine Chaplin

Nora Winkle

Sabine Azéma

Élisabeth Rousseau

Pierre Arditi

Robert Dufresne

Robert Manuel

Georges Leroux

Martine Kelly

Claudine Obertin

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