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Improbable encounters bring tenderness, laughter and compassion to a world of urban alienation.Improbable encounters bring tenderness, laughter and compassion to a world of urban alienation.Improbable encounters bring tenderness, laughter and compassion to a world of urban alienation.
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- TriviaThe clip from the old film Jeanne Meyer and Charly watch together is taken from The Lacemaker (1977).
- Quotes
John McKenzie: I like to think that behind all the dark there is a great light.
- ConnectionsFeatures The Lacemaker (1977)
- SoundtracksWhen Your Heart Is Weak
Performed by Cock Robin
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This movie is sad and funny in the same time. This is a separate stories tale that takes place in a tumble down building, in the suburb of a big city. Poverty row. That's the setting. In this building, first you have a lonely cripple man in his wheel chair who, after a vascular accident - Gustave Kervern - tries to date a night nurse of the local hospital - Valeria Bruni Tedeshi - who is also a lonely soul. This scheme is an open tribute to BRIDGES OF MADISON COUNTY; even the dumbest could see it. Second, you have another weirder scheme, tribute this time to GRAVITY and a slice of 2001 SPACE ODYSSEY, and showing an American astronaut arriving from space after the collapse of his rocket ship and finding shelter in a flat of the building, helped by a lonely woman, mother of her convict son. A lonely woman, of course. And the third story shows a former actress - Isabelle Huppert - who has lost all her shining stardom and who befriends a young man living on the same floor. This third scheme is probably a tribute to a movie I don't exactly know, maybe a IsabelleHuppert's film. I would not be surprised. One important thing, those three tales are told with a pretty good editing. You have not here three stories shown one after the other... See what I mean? Go and see it. It's worth watching.
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- The Condominium of Broken Hearts
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- Gross worldwide
- $880,180
- Runtime1 hour 40 minutes
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- 1.33 : 1
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