TY - ADVS AU - Ferreira Barbosa,Laurence AU - Guiblet,Bruno AU - Kérouédan,Yvonne AU - Huppert,Isabelle ED - Gemini Films, ED - Bureau-Le Petit Bureau, TI - La vie moderne PY - 1999///] CY - [Paris, France] PB - Gemini Films KW - Loneliness KW - Drama KW - Families KW - Man-woman relationships KW - Anthology films KW - lcgft KW - Feature films KW - Internet videos KW - Streaming video N1 - Originally released as a motion picture in 2000; "Une coproduction Gemini Films, Le Studio Canal+, Les Films du Camelia, Light Night Production SA (Suisse)."; Cinematographer, Christophe Beaucarne; editor, Yann Dedet; music, Faton Cahen; Isabelle Huppert, Frederic Pierrot, Lolita Chammah, Juliette Andrea, Robert Kramer, Jean-Pierre Gos. Aurelien Recoing, Marc Rioufol, Teo Saavedra, Blandine Paulet, Jaremie Korenfeld, Jacques Spiesser N2 - A film about a trio of unconnected people who struggle through the loneliness of their lives. Impetuous 17-year-old Marguerite, who feels cut off from both her family and classmates, passes the time by talking to God. Eventually, she decides to enter a convent. Meanwhile, housewife Claire is frustrated after ten years of childless marriage. While going to visit a fertility expert in Paris, she happens upon an old lover, gets picked up by some guy at a bar and has a bizarre encounter with an America singer. Meantime, Jacques is divorced, unemployed, and loathed by his daughter. Just as his life looks one long exercise in desperate futility, he meets comely Eva. Suddenly, he transforms himself into a private detective, trying to track down a missing associate UR - https://login.zproxy.cun.edu.co/login?url=https://www.digitaliafilmlibrary.com/film/483/ UR - https://login.zproxy.cun.edu.co/login?url=https://www.digitaliafilmlibrary.com/cover?id=483 ER -