Ce jour-là

France / Switzerland, May 2003
FILM, Fiction, 105 min.

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directed by
Raúl Ruiz
Written by
Raúl Ruiz
Status
In distribution
Website
www.cejourla-lefilm.com

In Switzerland, the lovely family home of a bankrupt industrialist is the setting for this comedy (a caustic farce). Livia, a young woman prone to hallucinations, and the sole heir to an immense fortune, declares to her relatives that it is the eve of the most wonderful day of her life. Emil Poinpoirot, a patient at the nearby psychiatric clinic, has been hired to kill her the following day. However, a strange complicity soon binds them and in the place of Livia, nearly all the other members of her family are murdered, in the most peaceful way imaginable. Why do the police not intervene? Following the disaster, Treffle, the loyal butler, resumes his position as Livia’s guardian angel.

credits

World Premiere
May 2003
Original Version
French (english subtitles),  colour, 35mm, 105 min.
Production
Gemini Films, Light Night Production SA
Producer
directed by
Raúl Ruiz
Written by
Raúl Ruiz
Editing
Valéria Sarmiento, Georges-Henri Mauchamp
Music
Jorge Arriagada
Production Design
Bruno Beaugé
Lighting Design
Olivier Guillaume, Mathieu Milhaud

Cast

Elsa Zylberstein
Bernard Gireaudeau
Jean-Luc Bideau
Michel Piccoli
Edith Scob

World Sales / World Rights

World Sales
Gemini Films

Worldwide Distribution

Switzerland
Frenetic Films Distribution
Release date: tba

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