''Le Courage d'aimer'' is a comedy-drama film directed by
Claude Lelouch
Claude Barruck Joseph Lelouch (; born 30 October 1937) is a French film director, writer, cinematographer, actor and producer. Lelouch grew up in an Algerian Jewish Family. He emerged as a prominent director in the 1960s. Lelouch gained criti ...
released on 29 June 2005. It is the result of a recutting of the first part (''
Les parisiens'') of an unfinished trilogy - ''Le Genre humain'' with the scenes from the film that would have constituted the second film, called ''Le Bonheur, c'est mieux que la vie''.
Synopsis
A picture of
humankind
Humans (''Homo sapiens'') are the most abundant and widespread species of primate, characterized by bipedalism and exceptional cognitive skills due to a large and complex brain. This has enabled the development of advanced tools, culture, ...
in
Paris
Paris () is the Capital city, capital and List of communes in France with over 20,000 inhabitants, most populous city of France, with an estimated population of 2,165,423 residents in 2019 in an area of more than 105 km² (41 sq mi), ma ...
"a la Lelouch" : singers, shows, social gatherings, businessmen, nightclub barmen, bums, shoppers, etc.
Starring
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Mathilde Seigner as Anne / Clémentine
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Maïwenn
Maïwenn Le Besco (; born 17 April 1976), known mononymously as Maïwenn, is a French actress and filmmaker.
Early life
Maïwenn Le Besco was born on 17 April 1976 in Les Lilas, Seine-Saint-Denis, the daughter of artist Catherine Belkhodja. ...
as Shaa
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Massimo Ranieri
Massimo Ranieri (born Giovanni Calone on 3 May 1951) is an Italian singer, actor, television presenter and director.
Biography Early life
Ranieri was born in Naples ( at Santa Lucia), the fifth of eight children in the family. When he was 10, y ...
as Massimo
* Michel Leeb as Michel Gorkini
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Arielle Dombasle as Sabine Duchemin
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Line Renaud as Line
* Yannick Soulier as Sami
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Pierre Arditi
Pierre Arditi (born 1 December 1944) is a French actor. He is the brother of French actress Catherine Arditi.
Life and career
Born in Paris, his father was the painter Georges Arditi, from Marseille of Jewish descent, and his mother Yvonne ...
as Pierre
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Ticky Holgado
Ticky Holgado (24 June 1944, in Toulouse – 22 January 2004, in Paris), pseudonym of Joseph Holgado, was a French actor and a frequent collaborator with Jean-Pierre Jeunet.
With ''Delicatessen'' (1991) by Jean-Pierre Jeunet and Marc Caro, Tic ...
as God
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Michèle Bernier as Tania
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Francis Perrin as Didier
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Grégori Derangère as The real estate agent
* Lise Lamétrie as Lise
* Eric Viellard as Francesco
* Cyrielle Claire as Patricia
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Agnès Soral
Agnès Soral (born 8 June 1960) is a Franco-Swiss actress, comedian and writer.
Early life
Her family settled in Meudon in the 1960s before the expropriation by the state of forest land owned by her father, who works as a legal adviser.
Perso ...
as A spectator
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André Falcon
André Falcon (28 November 1924 – 22 July 2009) was a French film actor. He appeared in more than one hundred films from 1954 to 2008.
Filmography
References
External links
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1924 births
2009 deaths
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as The jewelry director
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Charles Gérard as The jewelry client
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Cristiana Reali as The jewelry saleswoman
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Antoine Duléry as A restaurant owner
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Mireille Perrier
Mireille Perrier (born 14 November 1959) is a French actress and stage director.
Career
She debut in theater with the ''Compagnie du Hasard'' in 1977, where she remained a member for two years.
Her first starring role was in Leos Carax's '' ...
as The woman on the docks
* Alexandra Kazan as Sylvie
* Thiam Aïssatou as Joséphine
* Pierre Santini as Jean-Claude Bénichou
* Salomé Lelouch as Bénichou's assistant
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Alessandra Martines
Alessandra Martines (born 19 September 1963) is an Italian-French dancer and actress mainly working in the English, French and Italian speaking-worlds. She started young in ballet on opera stages in Switzerland, France, the United States and t ...
as Alessandra
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Olivier Minne
Olivier Minne (born 18 March 1967 in Ixelles, Belgium) is a Belgian-born French television presenter, actor and producer.
Biography
Minne was born in Belgium, the son of a Belgian father and a French mother. Minne studied in Brussels, at a Jes ...
as Le présentateur des Victoires
References
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2005 films
Films about suicide
2005 comedy-drama films
Films directed by Claude Lelouch
French comedy-drama films
2000s French films
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