Life Is a Bed of Roses (1983)
Overview
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.
Cast
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
Samson Fainsilber
Zoltán Forbek
Véronique Silver
Nathalie Holberg
André Dussollier
Raoul Vandamme
Bernard-Pierre Donnadieu
Teacher
Jean-Claude Arnaud
Driver of the van
Lucienne Hamon
Juliette Watelet
Jean-Louis Richard
Father Jean Watelet
Hélène Patarot
Thi LanRecommendations
The House of Tomorrow
Macadam Stories
Four Adventures of Reinette and Mirabelle
Fat Kid Rules The World
CQ
Bon Voyage
César
Juniper
Class Act
Under the Stars of Paris
A Brother’s Love
Almost Friends
Bad Seeds
The Children of Chance
Landline
Somewhere in Queens
Just an Illusion
Tenor
The Decline of the American Empire
All Fired Up