Jean-Claude Delsart, a 50 years-old bailiff, with his worn-out smile and heart, abandoned a long time ago the idea that life could give him pleasures. Until the day, he dares to push the doors of a tango lesson...
Acting
Patrick Chesnais's face contains multitudes of repressed French sorrow.
Direction
Brizé lets silences do the screaming.
Cinematography
Paris looks appropriately gray and hopeful.
Director
Stéphane Brizé
Patrick Chesnais
Jean-Claude
Anne Consigny
Françoise
Georges Wilson
Père de Jean-Claude
Lionel Abelanski
Thierry, Fiancé de Françoise
Cyril Couton
Jean-Yves, Fils de Jean-Claude
Geneviève Mnich
Mère de Françoise
Hélène Alexandridis
Soeur de Françoise
Anne Benoît
La secrétaire
Olivier Claverie
Le dragueur cours de tango
Stéphan Wojtowicz
Le médecin
Marie-Sohna Condé
Rose Diakité
Valérie Kéruzoré
Vendeuse parfumerie
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Patrick Chesnais spent months training with professional tango dancers; the stiffness is deliberate.
Brizé belongs to the 'social realist' French tradition that makes audiences sit with discomfort—no soundtrack relief, no easy catharsis.
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