24/11/2005

Final preparations for the new feature by Alain Resnais, Petites peurs partagées (Private Fears in Public Places) for which shooting starts on the 12th December in the Paris region. Casting for the 16th feature by the 83 year old filmmaker has his usual troupe of actors around him, Sabine Azéma, Pierre Arditi, André Dussollier and Lambert Wilson to which you can add novices to the Resnais universe: Isabelle Carré and Laura Morante. After the success of Not on the Lips (2003) and of Same Old Song (1997), the director has chosen for the second time to adapt from the British author Alan Ayckbourn from whom he was already inspired for Smoking/No Smoking en 1993.

Six characters battle with solitude despite their efforts to meet others, the piece Petites peurs partagées is constructed on a successions of cross-paths, misunderstandings and links that weave curiously. Nicola (Laura Morante) who has doubts about her feelings, looks for an apartment to share with her fiancé Dan (Lambert Wilson), a soldier in training who resigned for mysterious reasons and who is having difficulty readapting to civilian life, falling progressively into alcoholism. For his part, Stewart (André Dussollier) who lives with his sister Imogen (Isabelle Carré), has a crush on a work colleague Charlotte (Sabine Azéma), a woman full of contradictions, rigorously moral yet tempted by the flesh. As for Imogen who dreams of escaping the life shared with her brother, is looking for her Prince Charming through multiple encounters. And Charlotte also looks after the father of Ambrose the barman (Pierre Arditi) whose best customer is none other than Dan. Six characters, three men and three women, with multiples possibilities for Alain Resnais who has Frenchified them for a film produced by Bruno Pesery for Soudaine Compagnie.

(Translated from French)