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
The catalogue in 3D
The film shelves have a room of their own that you can walk around in. The cat behind the counter is the AI Catbot, and they pick real films from the same catalogue when you tell them what you feel like watching. Nothing is for sale, here or in there. Go in from here and this film is already out on the counter, with more like it waiting on the shelf next to it.
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)
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