''Everyone's Life'' (''Chacun sa vie et son intime conviction'') is a 2017
French comedy film
A comedy film is a category of film which emphasizes humor. These films are designed to make the audience laugh through amusement. Films in this style traditionally have a happy ending (black comedy being an exception). Comedy is one of the ol ...
written and directed by
Claude Lelouch
Claude Barruck Joseph Lelouch (; born 30 October 1937) is a French film director, screenwriter, writer, cinematographer, actor and film producer, producer. Lelouch grew up in an Algerian Jewish Family. He emerged as a prominent director in the 1 ...
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Synopsis
Twelve tales about intimate convictions leading to a thirteenth.
Casting
The film reunites several celebrated French stars.
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Jean Dujardin
Jean Edmond Dujardin (; born 19 June 1972) is a French actor and comedian. He began his career as a stand-up comedian in Paris before guest starring in comedic television programmes and films. He first came to prominence with the cult TV series ...
: Jean the policeman
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Julie Ferrier
Julie Ferrier (born 5 December 1971) is a French actress, comedian, dancer, writer and theater director.
Early life
Ferrier is in the eighth generation of actresses on the maternal side of her family. She was raised in a difficult housing proj ...
: Nathalie Richer / Judith
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Gérard Darmon
Gérard Darmon (born 29 February 1948) is a French- Moroccan actor and singer.
Personal life
He was the second husband of actress Mathilda May (mother of his two youngest children). He has three children: Virginie (born 1968) and, by May, daugh ...
: : Paul Richer
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Johnny Hallyday
Jean-Philippe Léo Smet (; 15 June 1943 – 5 December 2017), better known by his stage name Johnny Hallyday, was a French rock and roll and pop singer and actor, credited for having brought rock and roll to France.
During a career spanning 57 ...
: Johnny Hallyday Look-a-like/Himself
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Christopher Lambert
Christophe Guy Denis "Christopher" Lambert (; ; born March 29, 1957) is a French-American actor, producer, and novelist. He started his career playing supporting parts in several French films, and became internationally famous for portraying Ta ...
: Antoine de Vidas
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Marianne Denicourt
Marianne Denicourt (née Cuau; born 14 May 1963) is a French actress, director and screenwriter who has appeared in more than 50 films and television productions since 1986.
She studied under Patrice Chéreau in 1985-86 at the Ecole du Thé ...
: Marianne de Vidas
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Mathilde Seigner
Mathilde Seigner (born 17 January 1968) is a French actress.
Early life
Seigner was born in Paris. She is the granddaughter of actor Louis Seigner (1903–1991). She is the sister of Emmanuelle Seigner and a niece of Françoise Seigner.
Ca ...
: Mathilde
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Stéphane De Groodt
Stéphane De Groodt (born 3 March 1966) is a Belgian comedian, humorist and former racing driver.
Life and career Early life and education
Stéphane De Groodt is the son of an engineer at Texaco and a housewife who takes care of handicapped c ...
: Stéphane
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Nadia Farès
Nadia Farès (Arabic: نادية فارس , born 20 December 1968 in Marrakech, Morocco) is a French actress. She made her film debut in 1992, with '' My Wife's Girlfriends''. She rose to fame with the police thriller ''Les Rivières pourpres' ...
: Nadia
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Antoine Duléry
Antoine Duléry (born 14 November 1959 in Paris) is a French actor
An actor or actress is a person who portrays a character in a performance. The actor performs "in the flesh" in the traditional medium of the theatre or in modern media ...
:The cop/The mayor
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Béatrice Dalle
Béatrice Dalle (née Cabarrou; December 19, 1964) is a French actress.
Biography
Dalle was born in Brest, Finistère, France, as Béatrice Cabarrou. In 1985, she married the painter Jean-François Dalle, whom she divorced in 1988.
Working as ...
: Clémentine
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Ramzy Bedia
Ramzy Habib El Haq Bedia ( ar, رمزي حبيب إل حق بيديا ; born March 10, 1972) is a French actor, screenwriter and film director of Algerian descent.
He started his career as a comedian in 1994 after meeting Eric Judor with whom ...
: Tahar
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Déborah François
Déborah François (; born 24 May 1987) is a Belgian actress. She is best known for her starring role in the Palme d'Or-winning film, '' The Child'' (2005), directed by the Dardenne brothers. In 2009, she won a César Award for Most Promising A ...
: Jessica
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Chantal Ladesou
Chantal Ladesou (born 5 May 1948) is a French actress and comedian.
Personal life
Ladesou met her husband Michel Ansault and with whom she had three children, two boys, Alix (who died in a car accident), Julien and a daughter, the actress Cl ...
:The tax auditor
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Liane Foly
Liane Foly (born 16 December 1962, in Lyon) is a popular French blues and jazz singer, actress, presenter and impressionist.
Early years
Foly was born 16 December 1962Interview in the magazine '' VSD'', p. 98, no 1477, 14–20 December 2005 in ...
: Eugénie Flora
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Elsa Zylberstein
Elsa Zylberstein (born Elsa Florence Zylbersztejn, 16 October 1968) is a French film, TV, and stage actress. After studying drama, Zylberstein began her film career in 1989, and has appeared in more than 60 films. She won the César Award for Be ...
:The Countess
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Vincent Pérez
Vincent Perez (born 10 June 1964) is a Swiss actor, director and photographer. He played the title character, Ashe Corven, in '' The Crow: City of Angels'', and starred in ''Queen of the Damned'', playing Marius de Romanus. Some of his films in ...
:The Count
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Rufus
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Given name
Politicians
* Rufus Ada George (born 1940), Nigerian politician
* Rufus Al ...
:The taxi driver
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Zinedine Soualem
Zinedine Soualem (born 17 April 1957) is a French actor. He has appeared in at least five films directed by Cédric Klapisch.
Personal life
Soualem is Algerian by ancestry, and was at one point married to the actress Hiam Abbass
Hiam Abba ...
: Zinedine
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Vanessa Demouy
Vanessa Demouy (born 5 April 1973) is a French actress and model. She began modelling at age seventeen and later began acting.
She is primarily known for her role as Linda in a French sitcom ''Models in Paradise'' (''Coeurs caraïbes''). She was ...
:Lola
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Éric Dupond-Moretti
Éric Dupond-Moretti (born 20 April 1961) is a French-Italian lawyer and politician who was appointed Minister of Justice in 2020 by President Emmanuel Macron. As a criminal defence lawyer he is renowned for his record number of acquittals which e ...
:The president
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Philippe Lellouche
Philippe Lellouche is a French actor, director, screenwriter, television presenter and singer. He was born on March 30, 1966 in Tel HaShomer in Israel. His brother is the actor Gilles Lellouche.
Biography
After studying journalism, Philippe Le ...
: Philippe
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Francis Huster
Francis Huster (born 8 December 1947) is a French stage, film and television actor, director and scriptwriter.
Biography
Francis Huster was born in Neuilly-sur-Seine. His father is Charles Huster, commercial director at Lancia, and his Poli ...
:The attorney general
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William Leymergie
William Leymergie (born 4 February 1947 in Libourne) is a French journalist television producer and host, best known for the French breakfast television news show ''Télématin'', broadcast on public broadcaster France 2 and TV5 in Canada.
B ...
:The Parisian attorney
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Jean-Marie Bigard
Jean-Marie Bigard (; born 17 May 1954) is a French comedian and actor. Known for his often controversial humour, he has performed at some of the largest entertainment facilities in France, including the Paris-Bercy Arena and Stade de France. Big ...
: The optimist doctor
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Samuel Benchetrit
Samuel Benchetrit (born 26 June 1973) is a French writer, actor, scenarist, and director.
Biography
Benchetrit was born to a family of Romani, Sephardic and Ashkenazi Jewish ancestry.
At age fifteen, he quit school to focus on photography.
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: Samuel
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Isabelle Pasco
Isabelle Pasco (born 25 April 1966) is a French actress and model.
Pasco was born in Perpignan. She began her career as a model, modelling for photographers including: Paolo Roversi; Peter Lindberg; David Lachapelle; Helmut Newton; Antony Arm ...
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Isabelle de Hertogh
Isabelle de Hertogh (born 1972) is a Belgian actress.
Debut
She was a student at the Royal Conservatory of Brussels
The Royal Conservatory of Brussels (french: Conservatoire royal de Bruxelles, nl, Koninklijk Conservatorium Brussel) is a hi ...
:The judge
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Kendji Girac
Kendji "Girac" Jason Maillié (; born July 3, 1996), also known mononymously as Kendji, is a French singer-songwriter. He is the winner of season 3 of the music competition '' The Voice: la plus belle voix'' as part of Team Mika. He has released ...
:Kendji
* Dimitri Naiditch
* Laurent Couson
* Solenne Rodier
* Michel Leeb
* Thomas Levet
* Pauline Lefevre
* Angelica Sarre
* David Marouani
* Raphaël Mezrahi
Production
The film was shot between July and August 2016.
Most of the scenes have been shot in
Bourgogne
Burgundy (; french: link=no, Bourgogne ) is a historical territory and former administrative region and province of east-central France. The province was once home to the Dukes of Burgundy from the early 11th until the late 15th century. The c ...
, precisely in
Beaune
Beaune () is the wine capital of Burgundy in the Côte d'Or department in eastern France. It is located between Lyon and Dijon. Beaune is one of the key wine centers in France, and the center of Burgundy wine production and business. The annua ...
and
Dijon
Dijon (, , ) (dated)
* it, Digione
* la, Diviō or
* lmo, Digion is the prefecture of the Côte-d'Or department and of the Bourgogne-Franche-Comté region in northeastern France. the commune had a population of 156,920.
The earlies ...
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References
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2017 films
2017 comedy films
2010s French-language films
French comedy films
2010s French films
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