Same Old Song

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Same Old Song

1997,

2h 0m,

Comedy/

Drama/

Romance

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69%

16 Reviews

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81%

1,000+ Ratings

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69%

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16 Reviews

81%

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1,000+ Ratings

Half a dozen Parisians repeatedly cross paths as they traverse the city and occasionally lip-sync popular tunes from bygone eras. Dull Claude (Pierre Arditi) is married to frustrated Odile (Sabine Azéma), who wants a new apartment. Her former lover Nicolas (Jean-Pierre Bacri) is also looking to move and turns to real estate agent Simon (André Dussollier) for help. Simon has a crush on Camille (Agnès Jaoui), Odile's sister, who is dating Simon's boss, Marc (Lambert Wilson).

Richard Brody

The New Yorker

Jun 7, 2021

For all the expert interweaving of characters, plots, fantasies, and problems, the over-all impression is of a present tense that, in its febrile frivolity, is hardly a smudge on the heroic, turbulent, and bloody past.

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Jonathan Rosenbaum

Chicago Reader

May 8, 2014

A comedy about real estate and class differences, this was the biggest hit of Resnais' career in France, superbly capturing Paris in the 90s.

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Stephen Holden

New York Times

Oct 30, 2001

3/5

By the end of the film you've become more than superficially acquainted with six recognizable and complicated individuals. How many movie musicals can make that claim?

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Beth Accomando

KPBS.org

Apr 18, 2008

5/5

Sublime work from an old but still innovative French New Waver.

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Emanuel Levy

EmanuelLevy.Com

Jun 26, 2005

2/5

Jake Euker

F5 (Wichita, KS)

Jul 29, 2004

3/5

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Alain Resnais

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Pierre Arditi

Claude

Sabine Azéma

Odile Lalande

Jean-Pierre Bacri

Nicolas

André Dussollier

Simon

Agnès Jaoui

Camille Lalande

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Synopsis

Half a dozen Parisians repeatedly cross paths as they traverse the city and occasionally lip-sync popular tunes from bygone eras. Dull Claude (Pierre Arditi) is married to frustrated Odile (Sabine Azéma), who wants a new apartment. Her former lover Nicolas (Jean-Pierre Bacri) is also looking to move and turns to real estate agent Simon (André Dussollier) for help. Simon has a crush on Camille (Agnès Jaoui), Odile's sister, who is dating Simon's boss, Marc (Lambert Wilson).

Director: Alain Resnais
Producer: Bruno Pèsery
Screenwriter: Jean-Pierre Bacri, Agnès Jaoui
Distributor: Merchant-Ivory Productions [us], Artistic License
Production Co: Sofineurope, Télévision Suisse-Romande (TSR), Vega Films, France 2 Cinema, Le Studio Canal +, Cofimage 9, Greenpoint Films, Alia Film, Arena Films, European Co-production Fund, Caméra One
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Original Language: Canadian French
Release Date (Theaters): Nov 12, 1997, Original
Box Office (Gross USA): $32.4K
Runtime: 2h 0m
Sound Mix: Surround, Dolby Digital

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