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Marius and Jeannette

6.8 105 mins Drama   Romance   Comedy   1997
Agat Films & Cie / Ex Nihilo   La Sept Cinéma   Ville d'Aubagne   La Sept-Arte  
Director(s): Robert Guédiguian

Jeannette is a single mother living in a working-class community in Marseilles; she tries to support herself and her two kids on her salary as a check-out girl at a supermarket and lives in an apartment complex where everyone is thrown into close proximity with everyone else. Marius is working as a security guard at a cement factory that has gone out of business; he's also squatting in the building, since the plant is soon to be demolished and he'll be needing his money later on. One day, Jeannette happens by the factory, and spotting several cans of paint, tries to take two of them home with her. Marius spots her and tries to chase her away, while she rails at him with curses against the capitalist system. The next day, an apologetic Marius appears at her doorstep, cans of paint in hand; the two soon become friendly, and a romance begins to bloom, though it quickly becomes obvious that Jeannette's romance novel fantasies are a bit off the mark from what Marius has in mind.

Casts of Marius and Jeannette

Ariane Ascaride

as Jeannette

Gérard Meylan

as Marius

Pascale Roberts

as Caroline

Jacques Boudet

as Justin

Jean-Pierre Darroussin

as Dédé

Laetitia Pesenti

as Magali, Jeannette's Daughter

Miloud Nacer

as Malek, Jeannette's son

Pierre Banderet

as Monsieur Ebrard

Monique Meylan

as Avec l'amitié de

Michèle Camizuli Bonneveau

as Avec l'amitié de

Marc Bordure

as Avec l'amitié de

Blanche Guichou

as Avec l'amitié de

Jacques Menichetti

as Avec l'amitié de

Marie Darroussin

as Les enfants

Hedi Hamzaoui

as Les enfants

Madeleine Guédiguian

as Les enfants

Mathieu Fascella

as Les enfants

Farid Ziane

as Les enfants

Aïani Madjibounov

as Les enfants

Robert Guédiguian

as Narrateur (voice) (uncredited)

Titoff

as Un joueur de billard (uncredited)

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