La Patinoire

Nov 1, 1998

1h 20m

★ 4.8

Overview

La Patinoire is about a film director who is shooting a highly symbolic film called 'Dolores' at an ice rink. He has hired a Lithuanian ice hockey team with which he is having enormous communication problems. His actors all have inflated egos, his film crew is made up of fools, and there is a politician on his back. But he must finish the film, no matter what, in time for the Venice Film Festival.

Genres

Comedy

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Cast

Director

Tom Novembre

Assistant

Mireille Perrier

Producer

Marie-France Pisier

Ice Rink's Manager

Jean-Pierre Cassel

Actor

Bruce Campbell

Actress

Dolores Chaplin

Stand in of the Actress

Gilbert Melki

Cinematographer

Dominique Deruddere

The Sound Engineer

Jean-Loup Horwitz

The Editor

Éva Ionesco

Script Girl

Valérie Lecomte

Italian Festival Manager Assistant

Paolo De Vita

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