Purely Coincidental (2002)
A handful of student revolutionaries from the Seventies meet up 30 years later to plan a robbery. This is not entirely correct, because they are friends, anyway, and always have been. They play cards together and go to each others’ birthday parties, have wives and children and probably mortgages. Romain Goupil’s film appears to be a throwback to the experimental days of cinema verite. Either that or it’s a home movie, shot with a video camera, to an improvised script or no script at all.
Director: Romain Goupil
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Alain Cyroulnik as Self |
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Romain Goupil as Self |
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Olivier Martin as Self |
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Nicolas Minkowski as Self |
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Jean-Baptiste Poirot as Self |
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Pascale Ferran as Self |
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Tonie Marshall as Self |
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Christian Portal as Self |
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Julia Charpentier as Self |
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Sanda Charpentier as Self |
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Lita Recio as Self |
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Claire Denis as Self (Cameo appearance) |
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Edwy Plenel as Self (Cameo appearance) |
| Directing | Romain Goupil | Director |
| Camera | Romain Goupil | Director of Photography |
| Editing | Catherine Aladenise | Editor |
| Writing | Thomas Cheysson | Writer |
| Production | Margaret Ménégoz | Producer |
| Editing | Nicole Lubtchansky | Editor |