Summary
Undeterred by one box office failure, thirty-something filmmaker David
is preparing his second film. Once he has completed the script,
he insists on reading it to his wife Anna, who is beginning to find him
unbearably egocentric. So wrapped up is David in his little world
that Anna can barely bring herself to tell him that she is
pregnant. David even neglects his parents, and he is surprised
when Hélène, the star of his first film, calls him up one
day. David’s ordered world begins to fall apart when Anna makes
up her mind to apply for a teaching job in the United States...
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Credits
- Director: Elie Chouraqui
- Script: Elie Chouraqui
- Photo: Robert Alazraki
- Music: Michel Legrand
- Cast: Charles Aznavour (Léon, le père de David), Nicole Garcia (Anna), Francis Huster (David), Michel Jonasz (Simon), Nathalie Nell (France), Magali Noël (Sarah, la mère de David), André Dussollier (Guy), Charles Gérard (William), Anouk Aimée (Hélène), Katia Tchenko (Rose), Danièle Delorme (Georges), Annie Noël (La mère supérieure), Maurice Bénichou (Albert), Geneviève Mnich (Rebecca), Nicolas Hossein (Nicolas), Josée Yanne (Lou)
- Country: France
- Language: French
- Runtime: 97 min
- Aka: What Makes David Run?
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