Life Is a Bed of Roses (1983)

Summary

In this whimsical fable, Resnais deftly interweaves three story lines: the creation of an early-20th-century utopia; romantic high jinks at a school conference; and a fantasy sparked by F/X pioneer Georges Méliès.

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Vittorio Gassman

as Walter Guarini
Ruggero Raimondi

as Le comte Michel Forbek
Fanny Ardant

as Livia Cerasquier
Geraldine Chaplin

as Nora Winkle
Sabine Azéma

as Élisabeth Rousseau
Pierre Arditi

as Robert Dufresne
Robert Manuel

as Georges Leroux
Martine Kelly

as Claudine Obertin
Samson Fainsilber

as Zoltán Forbek
Véronique Silver

as Nathalie Holberg
André Dussollier

as Raoul Vandamme
Guillaume Boisseau

as Frédéric
Sabine Thomas

as Marie
Bernard-Pierre Donnadieu

as L'instituteur
Rodolphe Schacher

as Pierre
Jean-Claude Arnaud

as Le chauffeur du van
Lucienne Hamon

as Juliette Watelet
Jean-Louis Richard

as Le père Jean Watelet
Hélène Patarot

as Thi Lan
Flavie Ducorps

as La fille de Nora Winkle
Jean-Claude Corbel

as Le héros légendaire
Jean-Michel Dupuis

as Laplaud, l'instituteur de maternelle
Michel Muller

as Bertin
Philippe Laudenbach

as L'éducateur ennemi de la rêverie gratuite
Cathy Berberian

as La nourrice
Marc Adjadj

as
Nelly Alard

as
Tony Ammirati

as
Sébastien Angebault

as
Jérôme Anger

as
Michel Batilliet

as
Francine Bergé

as Une jeune fille adepte du bonheur
Jean-Noël Bert

as
Tomasz Bialkowski

as
Patricia Bilal

as
Charlotte Bonnet

as
Bérangère Bonvoisin

as
Valérie Bousquet

as
Michel Brinquier

as
Linda Bruno

as
Robert Cantarella

as
Catherine Cauwet

as
Elisabeth Chailloux

as
Pierre Charras

as
Raphaëline Chauvière

as
Eve Cotton

as
Jean Crubelier

as
Yann Dedet

as
Garrick Dowhen

as
Jean-Pierre Dravel

as
Valérie Dréville

as
Nicolas Dumayet

as
Michelle Dumon

as
Jean-Marie Duprez

as
Thierry Ferrer

as
Serge Feuillard

as
Eric Franklin

as
Pierre Frano

as
Marie Gascon

as
François-Eric Gendron

as
Philippe Besson

as

Directing	Alain Resnais	Director
Writing	Jean Gruault	Writer
Sound	Philippe-Gérard	Music
Editing	Albert Jurgenson	Editor
Art	Philippe Turlure	Set Decoration
Costume & Make-Up	Enki Bilal	Costume Design
Sound	Pierre Lenoir	Sound Designer
Production	Philippe Dussart	Producer
Editing	Jean-Pierre Besnard	Editor
Art	Enki Bilal	Production Design
Costume & Make-Up	Catherine Leterrier	Costume Design
Art	Jacques Saulnier	Production Design
Camera	Bruno Nuytten	Director of Photography