Private Fears in Public Places

2006 · directed by Alain Resnais

Rating

71/100

Hit

no

Seven lonely lives in Paris: a middle-aged estate agent who believes a colleague is sending messages in video tapes she loans him; his co-worker whose Bible is close at hand in times of stress; her late-night charge, an angry, nasty bedridden old man; his son, a patient bartender; the bartender's best patron, an ex-soldier who's lost his moorings while his fiancée looks for a large flat for them; and, the estate agent's much younger sister, who answers personals and waits in cafés with a red flower pinned on her jacket. Will any connect? Can open hearts trump fears?

Private Fears in Public Places (2006), directed by Alain Resnais, rates 71/100. See how its director, cast and crew rate across their careers.

Cast

• Sabine Azéma
• Laura Morante
• Pierre Arditi
• André Dussollier
• Lambert Wilson
• Isabelle Carré
• Claude Rich
• Michel Vuillermoz
• Françoise Gillard
• Anne Kessler

Crew

• Éric Gautier — Director of Photography
• Hervé de Luze — Editor
• Isaac Solemon — Editor
• Mark Snow — Original Music Composer
• Jean-Michel Ribes — Screenplay

More from Alain Resnais

1. Hiroshima Mon Amour (1959) — 85/100 · hit
2. Night and Fog (1956) — 84/100 · short, not counted
3. Last Year at Marienbad (1961) — 82/100 · hit
4. My American Uncle (1980) — 78/100
5. Je T'Aime, Je T'Aime (1968) — 77/100
6. The War Is Over (1966) — 76/100

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