![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Even the hurrahs and boos of an opening night can be bought by the highest bidder. This is where everything has a price, including critiques of new books and theater openings. With his brilliant cast of character actors (including famed Canadian actor/director Xavier Dolan and the inimitable Gérard Depardieu), haunting music, glorious landscapes and rich, scintillating Parisian locales, director Xavier Giannoli has concocted a modern look at the lost illusions of an ambitious young man who somehow loses his way on his search for fame and recognition.įrom his first encounter with the older, married Madame de Bargeton who takes him under her wing and into her bed in their original provincial town, to the rich Parisian salons where he falls in love with a young courtesan/singer, he becomes intoxicated by his swift rise in the ruthless literary and journalistic world of the time. ![]()
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