''Peut-être'' (''Maybe''; ''Perhaps'') is a 1999 French

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. Directed by

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with a budget of 75 million franc, the film runs for 109 minutes. It featured Romain Duris, Jean-Paul Belmondo, Géraldine Pailhas and Julie Depardieu. The film premiered at a Buck Rogers-themed

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party.

Plot

After having sex with his girlfriend Lucie (Pailhas) in a bathroom, Arthur (Duris) discovers that a ceiling panel is a time portal to the

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in the future, although it appears more like a sun-baked desert city by that point. There he meets an old man named Ako (Belmondo) who turns out to be Arthur's son. Ako attempts to persuade Arthur to impregnate Lucie so that he can exist in this future.

Cast

* Jean-Paul Belmondo as Ako * Romain Duris as Arthur * Géraldine Pailhas as Lucie * Julie Depardieu as Nathalie * Lorànt Deutsch as Prince Fur *

Emmanuelle Devos Emmanuelle Devos (born 10 May 1964) is a French actress. She is the daughter of actress Marie Henriau. She won the César Award for Best Actress in 2002 for her performance in ''Sur mes lèvres'', directed by Jacques Audiard. She has also been ...

as Juliette * Léa Drucker as Clotilde * Vincent Elbaz as Philippe * Hélène Fillières as Rosemonde *

Olivier Gourmet Olivier Gourmet (born 22 July 1963) is a Belgium, Belgian actor. Gourmet was born in Namur. He won the Best Actor Award (Cannes Film Festival), Best Actor award at the 2002 Cannes Film Festival for his role in ''The Son (2002 film), Le Fils'' ...

as Jean-Claude * Riton Liebman as Mathieu * Marceline Loridan-Ivens as Madeleine * Olivier Py as Green Man * Jocelyn Quivrin as The Martian * Liliane Rovère as Marie-Jeanne * Zinedine Soualem as Kader * Jean-Pierre Bacri as The father * Élisa Servier as The mother * Cathy Guetta as The DJ * Olivia Del Rio as The naked girl

References

External links

* 1999 films 1990s science fiction comedy films Films directed by Cédric Klapisch Films set in Paris French science fiction comedy films 1990s films about time travel 1999 comedy films 1990s French films Warner Bros. films 1999 science fiction films {{1990s-comedy-film-stub