Loin de Manhattan *** (1982, Jean-Christophe Bouvet, Sonia Saviange, Howard Vernon, Laura Betti) – Classic Movie Review 3636
Writer-director Jean-Claude Biette’s 1982 French comedy drama Loin de Manhattan is intriguing and densely scripted, with playful performances and teasing results. It stars Jean-Christophe Bouvet, Sonia Saviange, Howard Vernon, and Laura Betti.
In Biette’s complex screenplay, Christian (Jean-Christophe Bouvet), the employee of a Paris art gallery, gets the help of his friend Ingrid (Sonia Saviange) to try to solve the mystery of why famous painter René Dimanche (Howard Vernon) did not produce a single painting in eight years.
It also stars Laura Betti as Madame Hanska, with Michael Graham, Françoise Roche, Paulette Bouvet as Christian’s mother, Michel Delahaye as colonel Saint-Rouve, Piotr Stanislas as the comédien, Caroline Champetier, Noël Simsolo and Emmanuel Lemoine.
French director Jean-Claude Biette was born on à Paris, where he died of a heart attack on .
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