La Petite Lili (2004) - Starring Ludivine Sagnier, Robinson Stévenin, Nicole Garcia, Bernard Giraudeau, Julie Depardieu

View larger La Petite Lili Starring: Ludivine Sagnier, Robinson Stévenin, Nicole Garcia, Bernard Giraudeau, Julie Depardieu Directed by: Claude Miller Screenplay by: Julien Boivent, Claude Miller (Based on the "The Seagull" by Anton Chekhov) Release Date: November 12, 2004 Running Time: 90 minutes MPAA Rating: Not Rated. Studio: First Run Features Follow @madeinatlantis Domestic: $34,634 (0.1%) Foreign: $3,088,309 (99.9%) Total: $3,122.943 (Worldwide) US Box-Office Results UK Box-Office Results All Box-Office Charts	Buy Movie Posters	When the young and overly sensitive filmmaker Julien screens his new DV art-film starring his girlfriend Lili--a sexy young local girl--to his famous actress mother Mado, and her lover Brice, an accomplished film director, an unraveling of the delicate peace in their house begins. The graceful beauty Lili, who dreams of becoming a famous actress like Mado, is immediately fascinated by Brice, who gladly falls prey to her charms. Lili's ambitions will stop at nothing and she soon seduces Brice into leaving Mado to take her to Paris so she can become a movie actress. Mado and Julien are left to pick up the pieces of their disrupted lives, and for Julien the loss is almost fatal. Five years later, Julien, now a more established filmmaker, remakes a fictionalized account of this disastrous love quadrangle which nearly destroyed him. He reunites the characters--based on Mado, Brica and Lili--in his first, highly autobiographical, feature film. In real life, Lili is no longer with Brice, but indeeed, she has become a famous actress. When she learns of Julien's new film, and that it's about that tempestuous summer of five years past, she tries to reconnect with him.
	About the Filmmaker Producer / director / writer Claude Miller studied at the IDHEC film school in Paris from 1962 through 1963, acting as assistant and supervisor in the crews of many notable directors of France's Novelle Vague, including Robert Bresson, Jean-Luc Godard and Francois Truffaut. Under Truffaut's aegis Miller directed three shorts and his first feature film in 1976, The Best Way to Walk. Miller completed several more features and script adaptations with the perceptible influence of his mentor, and after Truffaut's death in 1984, Miller completed the filming of Truffaut's half-completed The Little Thief in 1988. Miller has since fully come into his own, and has helmed such critically-acclaimed films as The Class Trip (1998), Under Suspicion (2000), and Betty Fisher and other Stories (2001). In French Mado, une actrice célèbre, passe ses vacances d'été dans sa propriété en Bretagne, en compagnie de son frère Simon, de son fils Julien qui veut devenir cinéaste et de Brice, son amant du moment, réalisateur de ses derniers films. Les relations de Julien avec sa mère sont très tumultueuses. Ce dernier est fou amoureux de Lili, une jeune fille de la région qui ambitionne d'être comédienne. Celle-ci considère Julien avec tendresse mais elle est fascinée par Brice, un metteur en scène reconnu qui semble sensible à sa grâce. Un jour, Lili lui propose de tout quitter pour l'emmener à Paris. Cinq ans plus tard, Lili est une actrice célèbre. Elle n'est plus avec Brice. Elle apprend par hasard que Julien va tourner son premier long métrage et qu'il parle d'elle... Production notes provided by First Run Pictures.