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ACTOR
Sergio CastellittoMichel SerraultIsabelle GélinasRachida Brakni
DIRECTOR
Arthur Joffé
SYNOPSICS
Ne quittez pas! (2004) is a French,English movie. Arthur Joffé has directed this movie. Sergio Castellitto,Michel Serrault,Isabelle Gélinas,Rachida Brakni are the starring of this movie. It was released in 2004. Ne quittez pas! (2004) is considered one of the best Comedy,Fantasy movie in India and around the world.
Félix Mandel, an internationally renowned astrophysicist, is married with a four-year-old son and often has his head in the clouds.
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An excellent and very touching and daring comedy/drama about father and son
Ne quittez pas! is a comedy and a tale about a man (Excellent Sergio castellitto) talking over the phone to his dead father. The father (Michel Serrault's voice) wants his black coat back (the one he had during world war 2, under french antis-emit government) The film is fresh and funny specially when one learn those phones calls cost a fortune to the son. Those phone calls are so expensive that he soon will be broke and homeless. The end of the movie his incredibly daring, when we learn what this black coat story was about, specially when we consider the antisemitic resurgence in France. this film is an act of courage, and has to be seen all over the world.
Astonishing, inventive, soulful - and very funny.
This is a film with great heart. It is witty, warm, surprising, courageous - an impeccably crafted comedy enriched by moments of high drama, deep poignancy, tender romance, and deft revelation. The premise is simple: Felix Mandel, a sentimental, well-meaning dreamer, donates his deceased father's old overcoat to a homeless derelict, only to find himself haunted - and taunted - by collect calls from Heaven, as Papa demands, "Get back that coat!" Father and son are soon bickering, relishing this fresh opportunity to rehash old issues. As their exchanges become more tempestuous, the long-distance phone bills grow more exorbitant and Felix's predicaments more desperate. But the drollery takes some unexpected turns, and we are led delicately into the deeper implications of this situation. Adroitly directed by Arthur Joffe and vividly enacted by a superb cast featuring a mesmerizing, multi-hued performance from Sergio Castellito, this seemingly simple comedy embraces the complexities of our deepest human longings for connection, reconciliation, redemption, love. It offers not only charm but nobility, grace. hope...and lots of laughs!
A tale about love and identity
Arthur Joffé, a well known photographer, documentaries' film maker and director explores one of the most intriguing and unresolved sentiments of human being: love and identity, in a ironic but yet thoughtful manner where the action performs in an actual scenario, finds its roots in the past and then unites the two time spans in harmony. The situation develops in an everyday circumstance and investigates not only the father-son relationship but also the nature of love, through a travel in history, both public and personal, allowing us to ask ourselves the perennial question of who we are. What is most interesting in the film is the nature this relationship develops. The calls to the "beyond" are just an alibi, or yet a play of the imagination, a way to translate a form of "communication", with Jewish humor, into nowadays times. The anxiety of the search, the necessity of the search of the father's coat till the point to face diverse adversities that the main personage, interpreted by a greatly-expressive Sergio Castellito, encounters along the path only accentuates the Freudian sense of a hidden culpability towards the father. The end constitutes a natural cycle where the son finally finds out and understands the reason of the importance of the coat. The end constitutes the moment where the son re-finds the father, recognizes and accepts his past and can look forwards to his future. It is an articulate comedy in both a classical and modern sense. It develops like a tragedy, without losing its humor, and ends up with a poetic conclusion that makes us smile and think that yes, there's a sense behind our lives, a past, a story and an identity.
The most unique, innovative storyteller from France.
The French cinematic "authority" are supposed to know good Cinema, aren't they? Yes, they appreciate all the Hollywood American films; they stand in awe of their fantasy and imagination. But my question/concern is: Why don't the French appreciate this same imagination and uniqueness within THEIR OWN filmmakers? Arthur Joffé is a French director/writer who is a fantastic and incredible storyteller, and yet it is so very unfortunate that he doesn't get the recognition that he so rightly deserves! Please Please please do yourself a favor, go rent "Que La Lumiere Soit" (Let There Be Light), "Ne Quittez Pas" (Local Call) or "Alberto Express" to have the pleasure of viewing the work of one of France's true hidden treasures: the fantastic Arthur Joffé.
Wildly uneven, but everybody loves Sergio Castellito, right?
Only the French (and possibly Terry Gilliam) would ever try to create a comedy-drama and then add fantasy elements on top of that, and then go for high drama in the final reel. As moving as the ending to this film is it does make the viewer wonder about the nonsense that preceded it, but non-Jewish chickflickers may still want to check this one out. That said, Sergio Castellitto ("Don't Move") is proving to be not only Italy's most popular actor but a budding French star with a very good delivery of the language. Unfortunately, his role here is very selfish and the comedy becomes more and more muted as the film progresses. He plays 'Felix', a Jewish astronomer, who gets a call from the 'great beyond' ... and it's collect! Yes, this is one of those types of comedies where the supernatural is reduced to technical terms and even prayer rites become primitive 'telephone' connections to our loved ones who have passed on. Felix isn't just haunted by his father, who passed away two years prior, but must also complete a 'mission' of some importance involving a 'coat'. Unfortunately, the 'collect' calls (from heaven?) eventually bankrupt Felix, separating him from his wife & child, and then getting him evicted from his apartment and onto a life on the street. Not as fanciful as "Amelie," with an over-the-top dramatic conclusion, this is definitely the type of film that is more of an acquired taste for most (and will not be liked by most Jewish viewers at all). The ending still touched me due to the power of the image presented, but a supposed comedy-fantasy with a shocking conclusion juxtaposed in the last reel goes against the farcical prologue set-up (and to some may seem to be in very bad taste). If you want to try something new and are not easily offended, then this new wrinkle on death and today's technology may alternately tickle, confound, and assault you in equal measure ... but don't call me if you don't like the ending - you've been warned!