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I Wish Someone Were Waiting for Me Somewhere (2020)

I Wish Someone Were Waiting for Me Somewhere (2020), directed by Arnaud Viard, starring Jean-Paul Rouve and Alice Taglioni.

01/22/2020 BR Drama and Romance 1h 29m

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Synopsis

In the beautiful family home, at the end of the summer, Monique celebrates her 70th birthday, surrounded by her 4 children, all of whom have come for the occasion. There is Jean-Pierre, the elder, who took on the role of head of the family after the death of his father; Juliette, pregnant with her first child at 40 and who still dreams of becoming a writer; Margaux, the family’s radical artist, and Mathieu, 30, anxious to seduce pretty Sarah. Later, one day, one of them will make a life-changing decision ...

  • Emmanuel SoyerCinematography
  • Arnaud ViardDirector, Screenplay
  • Véronique BruqueEditing
  • Marc-Benoît CréancierProducer

About the film

I Wish Someone Were Waiting for Me Somewhere (French: Je voudrais que quelqu'un m'attende quelque part) is a French film directed by Arnaud Viard released in 2019 with an adapted screenplay from Anna Gavalda's homonymous collection of twelve short stories.

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I Wish Someone Were Waiting for Me Somewhere (French: Je voudrais que quelqu'un m'attende quelque part) is a French film directed by Arnaud Viard released in 2019 with an adapted screenplay from Anna Gavalda's homonymous collection of twelve short stories.

Plot

Aurore celebrates her 70th birthday surrounded by her friends and four grown children: the eldest Jean-Pierre is the father of a family and wine representative, Juliette is a French teacher and dreams of career as a writer, Margaux is a freelance photographer, and Mathieu is single at 30 years old. Since the death of their father, Jean-Pierre naturally assumes the paternalistic and benevolent role with his siblings. One day, he is contacted by his old friend Héléna, a fashionable theater actress, who tells him terrible news.

Cast

Jean-Paul Rouve as Jean-Pierre

Alice Taglioni as Juliet

Benjamin Lavernhe as Mathieu

Camille Rowe as Margaux

Elsa Zylberstein as Héléna

Aurore Clément as Aurora

Sarah Adler as Nathalie

Nicolas Vaude as publisher Oscar Valois

Quentin Dolmaire as Andréa

Eriq Ebouaney as Mathieu's doctor

Production

Most of the filming took place in Fixin, in Côte-d'Or. Part of the shooting took place from September 3 to 7, 2018 in Dijon.

Box office

The film was first released in France on January 22, 2020, in 367 theaters and sold 27,040 tickets on opening day. The first week ends with 212,027 tickets sold. The second weekend saw attendance drop by 57.07% despite 22 additional theaters. The film is entering its seventh week passed the bar of 450,000 tickets sold.

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I Wish Someone Were Waiting for Me Somewhere at IMDb

Text from I Wish Someone Were Waiting for Me Somewhere (film) on Wikipedia, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I_Wish_Someone_Were_Waiting_for_Me_Somewhere_(film)

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What is I Wish Someone Were Waiting for Me Somewhere about?

I Wish Someone Were Waiting for Me Somewhere: In the beautiful family home, at the end of the summer, Monique celebrates her 70th birthday, surrounded by her 4 children, all of whom have come for the occasion. There is Jean-Pierre, the elder, who took on the role of head of the family after the death of his father; Juliette, pregnant with her first child at 40 an…

Who directed I Wish Someone Were Waiting for Me Somewhere?

I Wish Someone Were Waiting for Me Somewhere was directed by Arnaud Viard in 2020.

Who stars in I Wish Someone Were Waiting for Me Somewhere?

The cast of I Wish Someone Were Waiting for Me Somewhere includes Jean-Paul Rouve, Alice Taglioni, Aurore Clément, Benjamin Lavernhe and Camille Rowe.

How long is I Wish Someone Were Waiting for Me Somewhere?

I Wish Someone Were Waiting for Me Somewhere runs for 89 minutes, or 1h29.

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