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Marius and Jeannette
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Marius and Jeannette

1997-11-19 · 105 min · ★ 6.8

Drama · Romance · Comedy

Jeannette is a single mother living in a working-class community in Marseilles; she tries to support herself and her two kids on her salary as a check-out girl at a supermarket and lives in an apartment complex where everyone is thrown into close proximity with everyone else. Marius is working as a security guard at a cement factory that has gone out of business; he's also squatting in the building, since the plant is soon to be demolished and he'll be needing his money later on. One day, Jeannette happens by the factory, and spotting several cans of paint, tries to take two of them home with her. Marius spots her and tries to chase her away, while she rails at him with curses against the capitalist system. The next day, an apologetic Marius appears at her doorstep, cans of paint in hand; the two soon become friendly, and a romance begins to bloom, though it quickly becomes obvious that Jeannette's romance novel fantasies are a bit off the mark from what Marius has in mind.

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Directors
Robert Guédiguian
Production companies
Agat Films & Cie / Ex Nihilo, La Sept Cinéma, Ville d'Aubagne, La Sept-Arte
Countries
France
Status
Released

Top Cast

Ariane AscarideAriane AscarideJeannette
Gérard MeylanGérard MeylanMarius
Pascale RobertsPascale RobertsCaroline
Jacques BoudetJacques BoudetJustin
Jean-Pierre DarroussinJean-Pierre DarroussinDédé
Frédérique BonnalFrédérique BonnalMonique
Laetitia PesentiLaetitia PesentiMagali, Jeannette's Daughter
Miloud NacerMalek, Jeannette's son
Pierre BanderetPierre BanderetMonsieur Ebrard
Monique MeylanAvec l'amitié de
Michèle Camizuli BonneveauAvec l'amitié de
Marc BordureAvec l'amitié de
Blanche GuichouAvec l'amitié de
Jacques MenichettiAvec l'amitié de
Marie DarroussinLes enfants
Hedi HamzaouiLes enfants
Madeleine GuédiguianLes enfants
Mathieu FascellaLes enfants
Farid ZianeLes enfants
Aïani MadjibounovLes enfants

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