Life Is a Bed of Roses (1983)

Original title

La vie est un roman

Directed by

Alain Resnais

Genre

drama film, musical film

Country

France

Runtime

1h 50m

Rating

5.8 of 10 from 34 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

Three storylines are woven together. One is set in the 1920s about a count who designs a utopian castle. Another follows children in the 1980s who stage a fantasy musical. The third involves adults attending a futuristic conference.

whimsicalplayfulintricatecontemplativeromanticdreamliketheatricalgentle

What happens

Life Is a Bed of Roses (French: La vie est un roman) is a 1983 French film directed by Alain Resnais from a screenplay by Jean Gruault. The English-language distribution title of the film is Life Is a Bed of Roses, though it has also been known as Forbek's Castle and Life Is a Fairy Tale. A literal translation of the original title is "Life is a novel [or story, romance]"; in the film the French quotation (or misquotation) is attributed to Napoleon. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

Trailer

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