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Life Upside Down is a french film of genre Drama directed by Alain Jessua released in USA on 1 september 1964 with Charles Denner
Life Upside Down (1964)
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Jacques Valin, employé dans une agence immobilière de Montmartre, mène une vie sans problème en compagnie de son amie cover-girl. Mais un jour, fatigué de la routine, il s'enferme dans la solitude et plonge peu à peu dans une folie heureuse.Actors
Charles Denner
(Jacques Valin)
Anna Gaylor
(Viviane)
Nicole Gueden
(Nicole)
Jean Yanne
(Monsieur Kerbel)
Yvonne Clech
(Madame Kerbel)
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Genres Drama, Science fiction, Fantastic, Comedy, Comedy-drama
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Genres Drama, Comedy, Comedy-drama, Adventure
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, 1h30Directed by Alain Jessua
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Rating54%
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, 1h40Directed by Alain Jessua
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, 1h56Directed by Marcel Ophuls, Max Ophüls, Claude Pinoteau, Alain Jessua
Origin France
Genres Drama, Biography, Historical, Romance
Themes Circus films
Actors Martine Carol, Peter Ustinov, Anton Walbrook, Oskar Werner, Lise Delamare, Paulette Dubost
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In the mid-19th-century, Lola Montès (Martine Carol) is a famous, past-her-prime dancer and courtesan who has led an eventful and highly scandalous life. (She supposedly holds a world record for number of lovers.) She is now reduced to performing in a New Orleans circus, where an impresario/ringmaster (Peter Ustinov) has both befriended and exploited her by making her the central attraction. In the course of a single circus performance — which dramatically reenacts Lola's life and career — flashbacks reveal, first, her affair with composer Franz Liszt (Will Quadflieg); second, her unhappy youth and marriage to her own mother's boyfriend, Lt. Thomas James (Ivan Desny); and then her scandalous public breakup with conductor Claudio Pirotto (Claude Pinoteau). Along the way, her career as a dancer and "actress" has its ups and downs and she initially rejects the career advances of a younger version of Ustinov's impresario. In a longer flashback, constituting most of the second half of the film, her career as courtesan reaches a peak: her affair with the Bavarian King Ludwig I (Anton Walbrook), which incenses his subjects and leads to his eventual downfall in the March Revolution of 1848. In a final circus sequence, Lola — a "fallen woman" — ascends to the apex of the big top tent for a symbolic, death-defying plunge. She is last seen allowing herself to be touched, or kissed, by a very long queue of male, fee-paying circus patrons.
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Origin France
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