Film
Movie theaters, reviews and showtimes in New York, plus articles, trailers and more
- Home
- Box Office
- Listings
- Trailers
- Features
Bookmark this page- Edition:
Une Semaine de Vacances (1980)
Director: Bertrand Tavernier
Movie review
From Time Out Film Guide
Twelve years on from 1968, and the children of Marx and Coca-Cola are hitting their first mid-life crises' - in this case forcing a Lyonnaise teacher (Baye) to take une semaine de vacances and reassess her life. Tavernier avoids the reactionary ploys of 'unmarried women' stories, and his combination of solidly-crafted European finesse and fluid transatlantic shooting style effectively staves off intimations of the film's middlebrow nature. At the same time, the tentative celebrations of life's minor felicities - food, friendship, a community of good, nameless people - provide genuine warmth, and the final mood of cautious optimism is justified surprisingly well. CPea.Author: CPea
Cast & crew
Director: Bertrand Tavernier
Producer: Alain Sarde, Bertrand Tavernier
Cast: Nathalie Baye, Michel Galabru, Philippe Noiret, Flore Fitzgerald, Gérard Lanvin, Jean Dasté, Philippe Léotard full cast
Duration: 103 mins
Most popular on this site
Features
Old-school house
Even in the age of the multiplex, a few old movie theaters continue to thrive in NYC.
Keeping the faith
Hope abounds in Spike Lee’s latest—as it does in the director himself.
Going the distance
TONY toughs out the Toronto International Film Festival, blow by blow.
Race you to the top
Tyler Perry doesn’t need critics—and may not need new audiences.
Spanish intuition
Scarlett Johansson and Rebecca Hall flirt away an Iberian summer in Vicky Cristina Barcelona.
To air is human
Man on Wire, a new doc about a surreal Manhattan morning, aims high.
What do you think?
Post your review now