AIMER, BOIRE ET CHANTER / LIFE OF RILEY

2013, Colour, France, World Greats 

Production Team

Director : Alain Resnais

Screenwriter : Laurent Herbiet, Alex Reval, Jean-Marie Besset

Cinematographer : Dominique Bouilleret

Editor : Hervé De Luze

Cast : Sabine Azéma, Sandrine Kiberlain, Caroline Silhol, André Dussolier, Hippolyte Girardot, Michel Vuillemoz, Alba Gaia Bellugi

Music : Mark Snow

Film production and Sales : Prod.: Jean-Louis Livi, F comme film, Paris (France), tél.: (+33-01) 40 73 84 20, fcommefilm@fcommefilm.fr Ventes/Sales: Le Pacte, Paris (France), sales@le-pacte.com Distributeur canadien/Canadian Distributor: A-Z Films, 821, rue St-Germain, Saint-Laurent, QC H4L 3R7 (Canada), azeind!azfilms.ca

Synopsis

In the midst of rehearsals for a new play, Colin and Kathryn receive the shattering news that their friend George has only a few months to live. 

Director

One of the great creators of the French cinema, Alain Resnais was born in 1922 and began his career in the late 1950s. He consolidated his early reputation with HIROSHIMA MON AMOUR (1959), LAST YEAR AT MARIENBAD (1961), and MURIEL (1963), all of which adopted unconventional narrative techniques to deal with themes of troubled memory and the imagined past. Selected filmography: THE WAR IS OVER (1966), STAVISKY (1974), PROVIDENCE (1976), MY AMERICAN UNCLE (1980), SAME OLD SONG (1997), SMOKING/NO SMOKING (1993), NOT ON THE LIPS (2003), WILD GRASS (2009). Resnais died on March 1, 2014.