Summaries

A popular novelist researches unlikely sources to find characters for her next bestseller.

The successful novelist Judith Ralitzer is interrogated in the police station about the disappearance of her ghost-writer. A serial-killer escapes from a prison in Paris. A missing school teacher leaves his wife and children. In the road, the annoying and stressed hairdresser Hughette is left in a gas station by her fiancé Paul while driving to the poor farm of her family in the country. A mysterious man offers a ride to her and she invites him to assume the identity of Paul during 24 hours to not disappoint her mother. Who might be the unknown man and what is real and what is fiction?—Claudio Carvalho, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

Details

Keywords
  • reference to dr. jekyll and mr. hyde
  • reference to alexandre dumas
  • reference to louis de funes
  • honore de balzac quotation
  • reference to splendeurs et miseres des courtisanes by honore de balzac
Genres
  • Drama
Release date Jun 26, 2007
Motion Picture Rating (MPA) R
Countries of origin France
Language French
Filming locations Fort Sainte-Marguerite, Île Sainte-Marguerite, Cannes, Alpes-Maritimes, France
Production companies Canal+ Les Films 13

Box office

Gross US & Canada $1852764
Opening weekend US & Canada $25484
Gross worldwide $4846868

Tech specs

Runtime 1h 43m
Color Color
Sound mix Dolby Digital
Aspect ratio 2.35 : 1

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