La Vie d'artiste (film)

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La Vie d'artiste
Directed by Marc Fitoussi
Written by Marc Fitoussi
Starring Sandrine Kiberlain
Émilie Dequenne
Denis Podalydès
Valérie Benguigui
Marilyne Canto
Distributed by Haut et Court
Release date
  • 5 September 2007 (5 September 2007)
Running time
107 min
CountryFrance
LanguageFrench

La Vie d'artiste is a French film written and directed in 2006 by Marc Fitoussi, realised in 2007. [1]

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Plot

Alice dreams of being a film or stage actress, but is now reduced to dubbing the voice of Yoko Johnson, a Japanese cartoon detective character. Bertrand is writing his second novel and aspires to literary greatness. Meanwhile, he teaches French in a secondary school. Cora hopes to break into the French songwriting world, but has to work as hostess in a karaoke bar. All three are determined to achieve their goals and it is too bad if the paths to glory are strewn with pitfalls. [1]

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References

  1. 1 2 "La Vie d'artiste". Allociné (in French). Retrieved 1 October 2021.
  2. "Marc Fitoussi - Awards". IMDb. Retrieved 1 October 2021.