Les parisiens

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Les parisiens
Directed by Claude Lelouch
Written byClaude Lelouch
Pierre Uytterhoeven
Produced byClaude Lelouch
Jean-Paul De Vidas
Starring Mathilde Seigner
Maïwenn
Arielle Dombasle
Agnès Soral
Alessandra Martines
Cinematography Gérard de Battista
Edited byStéphane Mazalaigue
Music by Francis Lai
Distributed byLes Films 13
Release date
  • 15 September 2004 (2004-09-15)(France)
Running time
119 minutes
CountryFrance
LanguagesFrench
Italian
Budget$6.8 million [1]
Box office$2.1 million [2]

Les Parisiens (first part of the Le Genre humain trilogy) is a film directed by Claude Lelouch, released 15 September 2004.

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A string of characters, often marginal, form part of what one might call the "love Richter Scale" and intersect, forming Prévert inventory. Among them, two singers, Shaa and Massimo fall in love, and share their story.

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References

  1. "Le Genre humain-1: Les Parisiens (2004) - JPBox-Office".
  2. "Le genre humain - 1ère partie: Les Parisiens".