Director:
Philippe Le GuayCámara:
Laurent MachuelMúsica:
Philippe RombiReparto:
Fabrice Luchini, Vincent Lindon, Géraldine Pailhas, Isild Le Besco, Lorànt Deutsch, Catherine Hosmalin, Chantal Neuwirth, Claude Rich, Michel Vuillermoz (más)Sinopsis(1)
A compulsive miser who makes his own life hell, A spendthrift restaurant owner heading for ruin through bad investments, A mysterious woman determined to make men pay, An industrialist who sells off his factories after a brush with death, A young heiress who wants to be loved for herself and an honest young man ready to live on love alone. Over a few days, in Lyons, all these characters come into contact, experience chance encounters and play out their destiny Through their intertwining tales, Le Coût de la vie (The Cost of Living) reveals something about our intimate relationship with money and reaches this strange conclusion: We think we're talking about money when the subject is in fact love. (texto oficial de la distribuidora)
(más)Reseñas (1)
A typical French relationship film, where we observe a group of people, intertwining their destinies, with the central theme of the whole film being the relationship of these individuals to property and money. One is simply a penny-pincher, one can't think about anything but material possessions, and one is, on the contrary, a realist. It has a decent cast, although it's not the top French league, and it is well-acted and directed. However, the film is harmed by the screenplay, which introduces a number of motifs and characters, only for the viewer to realize at the end of the film that practically none of these storylines (except maybe the factory owner, who only realizes upon retiring that there are people who cannot be bought) are satisfactorily concluded. Modern commercial filmmaking often leaves the door open for a potential sequel in case of a good audience response, but here it's not about leaving the door open, rather the feeling that someone has cut the film in two-thirds and it lacks an ending. As for the genre, I wouldn't label it as a comedy, but rather a drama with a series of tragicomic moments mostly delivered by Fabrice Luchini in the role of a bizarre greedy, penny-pinching man. Overall impression: 60%.
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