Life Is a Bed of Roses

In this whimsical fable, Resnais deftly interweaves three story lines: the creation of an early-20th-century utopia; romantic high jinks at a school conference; and a fantasy sparked by F/X pioneer Georges Méliès.

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  Alain Resnais

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  Vittorio Gassman
  Walter Guarini
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  Ruggero Raimondi
  Count Michel Forbek
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  Fanny Ardant
  Livia Cerasquier
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  Geraldine Chaplin
  Nora Winkle
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  Sabine Azéma
  Élisabeth Rousseau
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  Pierre Arditi
  Robert Dufresne
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  Robert Manuel
  Georges Leroux
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  Martine Kelly
  Claudine Obertin
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  Samson Fainsilber
  Zoltán Forbek
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  Véronique Silver
  Nathalie Holberg
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  André Dussollier
  Raoul Vandamme
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  Guillaume Boisseau
  Frédéric
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  Sabine Thomas
  Marie
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  Bernard-Pierre Donnadieu
  Teacher
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  Rodolphe Schacher
  Pierre
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  Jean-Claude Arnaud
  Driver of the van
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  Lucienne Hamon
  Juliette Watelet
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  Jean-Louis Richard
  Father Jean Watelet
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  Hélène Patarot
  Thi Lan
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  Flavie Ducorps
  Nora Winkle's daughter