Marius and Jeannette

Marius and Jeannette (1997)

DramaRomanceComedy

Jeannette is a single mother living in a working-class community in Marseilles; she tries to support herself and her two kids on her salary as a check-out girl at a supermarket and lives in an apartment complex where everyone is thrown into close proximity with everyone else. Marius is working as a security guard at a cement factory that has gone out of business; he's also squatting in the building, since the plant is soon to be demolished and he'll be needing his money later on. One day, Jeannette happens by the factory, and spotting several cans of paint, tries to take two of them home with her. Marius spots her and tries to chase her away, while she rails at him with curses against the capitalist system. The next day, an apologetic Marius appears at her doorstep, cans of paint in hand; the two soon become friendly, and a romance begins to bloom, though it quickly becomes obvious that Jeannette's romance novel fantasies are a bit off the mark from what Marius has in mind.

Director: Robert Guédiguian
Writers: Robert Guédiguian, Jean-Louis Milesi.

Casts

	Ariane Ascaride as Jeannette
	Gérard Meylan as Marius
	Pascale Roberts as Caroline
	Jacques Boudet as Justin
	Jean-Pierre Darroussin as Dédé
	Frédérique Bonnal as Monique
	Laetitia Pesenti as Magali, Jeannette's Daughter
	Miloud Nacer as Malek, Jeannette's son
	Pierre Banderet as Monsieur Ebrard
	Monique Meylan as Avec l'amitié de
	Michèle Camizuli Bonneveau as Avec l'amitié de
	Marc Bordure as Avec l'amitié de
	Blanche Guichou as Avec l'amitié de
	Jacques Menichetti as Avec l'amitié de
	Marie Darroussin as Les enfants
	Hedi Hamzaoui as Les enfants
	Madeleine Guédiguian as Les enfants
	Mathieu Fascella as Les enfants
	Farid Ziane as Les enfants
	Aïani Madjibounov as Les enfants
	Robert Guédiguian as Narrateur (voice) (uncredited)
	Titoff as Un joueur de billard (uncredited)

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