Actrices

Actrices
Actrices
	Film poster
Directed by	Valeria Bruni Tedeschi
Written by	Valeria Bruni Tedeschi; Noémie Lvovsky; Agnès de Sacy
Produced by	Olivier Delbosc ; Marc Missonnier
Starring	Valeria Bruni Tedeschi; Noémie Lvovsky; Mathieu Amalric; Louis Garrel; Valeria Golino
Cinematography	Jeanne Lapoirie
Edited by	Valeria Bruni Tedeschi; Anne Weil
Production; companies	Canal+; CNC; Fidélité Productions; Virtual Films; Wild Bunch
Distributed by	Wild Bunch
Release dates	19 May 2007 (Cannes); 26 December 2007 (France);
Running time	107 minutes
Country	France
Languages	French; Italian
Budget	$3.5 million
Box office	$4 million

Actrices (Actresses) is a French comedy-drama film directed by Valeria Bruni Tedeschi, released in 2007. The film was presented in the official selection at the 60th Cannes Film Festival and won a Prix Spécial du Jury in the Un Certain Regard section.^[2]^[3]

Plot

Marcelline is a chagrined actress, haunted by Natalia Petrovna, the heroine of the Turgenev play A Month in the Country, that she is rehearsing. Trying to escape her fears she visits the swimming pool. While she is swimming she listens to Glenn Miller.

At the age of 40 she is unmarried and lives only for her work at the theatre. When she learns she will probably never have children, this heightens her anguish. She tries to communicate with those around her - living or dead: the Virgin Mary, the protecting ghost of her father seated on the family sofa, the mischievous phantom of her lover perched in a tree. She laughs and cries in turn, a nothing perturbs her, a look from her mother, or simply a kiss from the young lead in the play she is acting in.