La Petite Lili movie storyline. 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.
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…
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La Petite Lili (2004)
Directed by: Claude Miller
Starring: Ludivine Sagnier, Robinson Stévenin, Nicole Garcia, Bernard Giraudeau, Julie Depardieu, Yves Jacques, Anne Le Ny, Marc Betton, Maylie Del Piero, Mathieu Grondin
Screenplay by: Julien Boivent, Claude Miller (Based on the “The Seagull” by Anton Chekhov)
Production Design by: Jean-Pierre Kohut-Svelko
Cinematography by: Gérard de Battista
Film Editing by: Véronique Lange
Costume Design by: Christel Birot, Jacqueline Bouchard
Distributed by: First Run Features
Release Date: November 12, 2004
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