IL EST PLUS FACILE POUR UN CHAMEAU...
IT'S EASIER FOR A CAMEL...
Federica is rich, too rich. This privilege imprisons her and stops her from dealing with daily life like a real adult. Her boyfriend is ready to start a family. Her former lover unexpectedly shows up. Her family is disconnected from normal, everyday life. Their conflictual relationship is further destabilized by the death of her father.
In her directorial debut, Il est plus facile pour un chameau , Bruni-Tedeschi plays the rich daughter of an Italian industrialist who feels crippled by her wealth. Confession is her favourite pastime. The priest tells her its easier for a camel to pass through the eye of a needle than to be a rich person in heaven. The film is reminiscent of Jacques Rivettes Va savoir with its references to theatre and play-acting rich girl tries to live at peace with the world, but the world doesnt want to live in peace with her. Bruni-Tedeschi injects a finely-judged mixture of humour and despair into the role. Many great dialogue scenes some with the delightfully spiteful Chiara Mastroianni ensue, examining the tiniest of emotions in the way we have come to expect from people like Rohmer. (Thessa Mooij)
- Valeria Bruni-Tedeschi - Federica
- Chiara Mastroianni - Bianca
- Jean-Hugues Anglade - Pierre
- Denis Podalydès - Philippe
- Marysa Borini - Mutter
- Roberto Herlitzka - Vater
- Noémie Lvovsky
- Agnès de Sacy
- Valeria Bruni-Tedeschi
- Jeanne Lapoirie
- François Waledish
- Anne Weil
- François Waledish
- Emmanuelle Duplay
- Claire Fraisse
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