Summary
Nine year-old Yves-Marie is in love with his classmate
Jacqueline. When he asks her to marry him she replies that she
will on the day that he goes up to the stars. Twenty-four years
later, Jacqueline is about to get married to Vincent when Yves-Marie
turns up unexpectedly on her doorstep. He is now an astronaut and
expects his former love to keep her promise. As Jacqueline tries
to explain that she cannot marry him, Yves-Marie makes her a strange
proposal: try him for one day before making up her mind...
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Credits
- Director: Pierre-François Martin-Laval
- Script: Jean-Paul Bathany, Pierre-François Martin-Laval, Isabelle Nanty, Frédéric Proust
- Photo: Régis Blondeau
- Music: Pierre van Dormael
- Cast: Pierre-François Martin-Laval (Yves-Marie), Julie Depardieu (Jacqueline), Pierre Richard (Le père d’Yves-Marie), Kad Merad (Vincent), Isabelle Nanty (La mère de Jacqueline), Marina Foïs (La mère de Firmin), Jules-Angelo Bigarnet (Firmin), Wladimir Yordanoff (Le père de Jacqueline), Frédéric Proust (Paul), Arnaud Marciszewer (Yves-Marie enfant), Tilly Mandelbrot (Jacqueline enfant), Pascal Vincent (Le voisin), Denise Bonal (Madame Villano)
- Country: France
- Language: French
- Runtime: 90 min
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