Peut-être
{{Infobox film
| name = Peut-être
| image = Peut-être poster.jpg
| caption = Theatrical release poster
| director = Cédric Klapisch
| producer = Aïssa Djambri
Farid Lahoussa
Manuel Munz
| writer = Santiago Amigorena
Alexis Galmot
Cédric Klapisch
| starring = Jean-Paul Belmondo
Romain Duris
Géraldine Pailhas
Julie Depardieu
| music = Loïc Dury
Mathieu Dury
| cinematography = Philippe Le Sourd
| editing = Francine Sandberg
| studio = Vertigo Productions
PECF
M6 Films
TPS Cinéma
| distributor = Warner Bros.
| released = {{Film date|1999|11|10|France|df=y}}
| runtime = 109 minutes
| country = France
| language = French
| budget = $13.8 million {{Cite web|url=http://www.jpbox-office.com/fichfilm.php?id=2762|title=Peut-être (1999) - JPBox-Office}}
}}
Peut-être (Maybe; Perhaps) is a 1999 French science fiction comedy film.{{cite book | author=Staff | year=2004 | title=The Scarecrow Movie Guide | publisher=Sasquatch Books | location=Seattle | page=322 | isbn=1-57061-415-6 }} Directed by Cédric Klapisch with a budget of 75 million franc, the film runs for 109 minutes.{{cite book | first=Lucy | last=Mazdon | year=2001 | page=[https://archive.org/details/franceonfilmrefl0000unse/page/95 95] | title=France on film: reflections on popular French cinema | series=Film Studies | publisher=Wallflower Press | isbn=1-903364-08-6 | url=https://archive.org/details/franceonfilmrefl0000unse/page/95 }} It featured Romain Duris, Jean-Paul Belmondo, Géraldine Pailhas and Julie Depardieu. The film premiered at a Buck Rogers-themed New Year's Eve party.
Plot
After having sex with his girlfriend Lucie (Pailhas) in a bathroom, Arthur (Duris) discovers that a ceiling panel is a time portal to the Paris in the future, although it appears more like a sun-baked desert city by that point. There he meets an old man named Ako (Belmondo) who turns out to be Arthur's son. Ako attempts to persuade Arthur to impregnate Lucie so that he can exist in this future.{{cite web | first=Jonathan | last=Crow | title=Peut-etre (1999) | url=https://movies.nytimes.com/movie/184382/Peut-etre/overview | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080619014214/http://movies.nytimes.com/movie/184382/Peut-etre/overview | url-status=dead | archive-date=2008-06-19 | department=Movies & TV Dept. | work=The New York Times | date=2008 | accessdate=2011-03-11 }}
Cast
- Jean-Paul Belmondo as Ako
- Romain Duris as Arthur
- Géraldine Pailhas as Lucie
- Julie Depardieu as Nathalie
- Lorànt Deutsch as Prince Fur
- Emmanuelle Devos as Juliette
- Léa Drucker as Clotilde
- Vincent Elbaz as Philippe
- Hélène Fillières as Rosemonde
- Olivier Gourmet as Jean-Claude
- Riton Liebman as Mathieu
- Marceline Loridan-Ivens as Madeleine
- Olivier Py as Green Man
- Jocelyn Quivrin as The Martian
- Liliane Rovère as Marie-Jeanne
- Zinedine Soualem as Kader
- Jean-Pierre Bacri as The father
- Élisa Servier as The mother
- Cathy Guetta as The DJ
- Olivia Del Rio as The naked girl
References
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External links
- {{IMDb title|0189916}}
{{Cédric Klapisch}}
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Category:French science fiction comedy films
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