Favourites of the Moon

Favourites of the Moon

Les favoris de la lune
🎞️ Movie 101 min FR
โ˜… 6.9 /10 1984

Awarded the Special Jury Prize at the 41st Venice International Film Festival, this absurdist comedy, with its sprawling cast of crooks, thieves, anarchists, prostitutes, chief inspectors, art dealers, and inventors, calls to mind the bustling tapestries of Robert Altman. The story revolves around two objects, a rare set of 18th-century Limoges china, and a 19th century aristocratic portrait. As these items are passed, sold, or stolen from one character to another, a giddy round dance of excess begins to take shape, one which suggests that if history doesn't repeat itself, it certainly rhymes. Together with co-writer Gérard Brach, whose other co-writing credits include Repulsion and Tess, Otar Iosseliani uses a feather-light touch to expose the futility of class and social order, making a bagatelle of the concerns of rich and poor alike.

Cast

Katja Rupé
Katja Rupé
Claire
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Alix de Montaigu
Delphine Laplace
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François Michel
Philippe
Jean-Pierre Beauviala
Jean-Pierre Beauviala
Colas
Pascal Aubier
Pascal Aubier
Monsieur Laplace
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Christiane Bailly
Agnès
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Bernard Eisenschitz
Gustave
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Hans Peter Cloos
Monsieur Duphour-Paquet
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Maïté Nahyr
Madeleine Duphour-Paquet
Mathieu Amalric
Mathieu Amalric
Julien
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Nicholas Zourabichvili
Composer
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Philippe Théaudière
Cinematographer