Life Is a Bed of Roses
1983In this whimsical fable, Resnais deftly interweaves three story lines: the creation of an early-20th-century utopia; romantic high jinks at a school conference; and a fantasy sparked by F/X pioneer Georges Méliès.
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Vittorio Gassman
as Walter Guarini
Ruggero Raimondi
as Count Michel Forbek
Fanny Ardant
as Livia Cerasquier
Geraldine Chaplin
as Nora Winkle
Sabine Azéma
as Élisabeth Rousseau
Pierre Arditi
as Robert Dufresne
Robert Manuel
as Georges Leroux
Martine Kelly
as Claudine Obertin
Samson Fainsilber
as Zoltán Forbek
Véronique Silver
as Nathalie Holberg
André Dussollier
as Raoul Vandamme
Guillaume Boisseau
as Frédéric
Sabine Thomas
as Marie
Bernard-Pierre Donnadieu
as Teacher
Rodolphe Schacher
as Pierre
Jean-Claude Arnaud
as Driver of the van
Lucienne Hamon
as Juliette Watelet
Jean-Louis Richard
as Father Jean Watelet
Hélène Patarot
as Thi Lan
Flavie Ducorps
as Nora Winkle's daughter
Jean-Claude Corbel
as The legendary hero
Jean-Michel Dupuis
as Laplaud, kindergarten teacher
Michel Muller
as Bertin
Philippe Laudenbach
as Educator enemy of gratuitous daydreaming
Cathy Berberian
as Nanny
Marc Adjadj
Nelly Alard
Tony Ammirati
Sébastien Angebault
Jérôme Anger
Michel Batilliet
Francine Bergé
as Young girl fan of happiness
Jean-Noël Bert
Tomasz Białkowski
Patricia Bilal
Charlotte Bonnet
Bérangère Bonvoisin
Valérie Bousquet
Michel Brinquier
Linda Bruno
Robert Cantarella
Catherine Cauwet
Elisabeth Chailloux
Pierre Charras
Raphaëline Chauvière
Eve Cotton
Jean Crubelier
Yann Dedet
Garrick Dowhen
Jean-Pierre Dravel
Valérie Dréville
Nicolas Dumayet
Michelle Dumon
Jean-Marie Duprez
Thierry Ferrer
Serge Feuillard
Eric Franklin
Pierre Frano
Marie Gascon
François-Eric Gendron
Philippe Besson