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Director:
Chantal Akerman
Writers:
Chantal Akerman (writer)
Jean-Louis Benoît (writer)
Contact:
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Release Date:
21 February 1996 (Belgium) more
Genre:
Comedy | Romance more
Tagline:
A Man... A Woman... A Dog... The perfect combination for romance...
Plot:
Dr. Henry Harriston is a successful psychoanalyst in New York City. When he is near a nervous breakdown... more | add synopsis
Awards:
1 win & 1 nomination more
User Comments:
Over ambitious film under delivers. more

Cast

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Juliette Binoche ... Beatrice Saulnier

William Hurt ... Henry Harriston
Stephanie Buttle ... Anne

Barbara Garrick ... Lizbeth Honeywell
Paul Guilfoyle ... Dennis

Richard Jenkins ... Campton
Kent Broadhurst ... Tim
Matthew Burton ... Wood
Henry Bean ... Stein
Bernard Breuse ... Jerôme
Adam LeFevre ... Restaurant Patron
Boris Leskin ... Cab Driver #1
Tiffany Fraser ... Julie (as Tiffany Frazer)
Wendy Way ... Employee at Airport
Jerry Dean ... Cab Driver #2
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Additional Details

Also Known As:
A Couch in New York (USA)
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MPAA:
Rated R for some language.
Runtime:
108 min
Country:
USA
Language:
English | French
Color:
Color
Aspect Ratio:
1.66 : 1 more
Sound Mix:
Dolby Digital

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1 out of 3 people found the following comment useful:-
Over ambitious film under delivers., 13 April 1999
Author: Doctor_Bombay from Lucas Buck, NC

The premise is a little unrealistic, that a uber-psychiatrist would temporarily abandon his Manhattan practice to switch apartments for a month in Paris-a switch with an unknown woman made through the newspaper. Incroyable!!!

But when you have a chance to make a film with two Academy Award winners, Juliette Binoche and William Hurt, set both in New York and Paris, who would pass the chance? Chantal Ackerman could not, the opportunity to make her first English speaking film a bonus.

The film is a reminder of how difficult it is to cross the pond movie-wise. Nuance and sub-text is awkward or incomprehensible here-the threads on which the movie is woven are frassled.

This artsy little film survives entirely on Binoche's vitality, her French innocence and enthusiasm dominates every negative New York influence her character encounters.

It fails most everywhere else, sadly.

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