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La Patinoire

1998 · 80 min · Director: Jean-Philippe Toussaint ★ IMDb 6.3 · 241 ratings

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La Patinoire is about a film director who is shooting a highly symbolic film called 'Dolores' at an ice rink. He has hired a Lithuanian ice hockey team with which he is having enormous communication problems. His actors all have inflated egos, his film crew is made up of fools, and there is a politician on his back. But he must finish the film, no matter what, in time for the Venice Film Festival.

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La Patinoire (1998) — Movie. Top emotional signals: Humor 45%, Confusion 20%, Surprise 15%. Source: AI estimate. Shares describe emotional signal, not percentages of people. Your experience may differ. How we measure

  1. Humor45%
  2. Joy10%

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The strongest emotional signals are Humor, Confusion, Surprise. Genres: Comedy. AI estimate.

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Cast

TN
Tom Novembre

TN
Tom Novembre

Director

MP
Marie-France Pisier

Producer

Jean-Pierre Cassel

Ice Rink's Manager

DC
Dolores Chaplin

DC
Dolores Chaplin

Actress

DD
Dominique Deruddere

JH
Jean-Loup Horwitz

JH
Jean-Loup Horwitz

The Sound Engineer

ÉI
Éva Ionesco

VL
Valérie Lecomte

Script Girl

PD
Paolo De Vita

Italian Festival Manager Assistant

RU
Rasa Urbonaite

Interpreter

VS
Viktor Senin

Lithuanian Trainer

OD
Olivier Dessalles

Journalist

DG
Dominic Gould

Head Key Grip

FE
Franck Ema-Otu

Key Grip

IV
Istvan Van Heuverzwyn

Gaffer

YM
Yves Michiels

Best Boy

Av
Alexandre von Sivers

Props Man

Details

Directed by
Jean-Philippe Toussaint
Written by
Jean-Philippe Toussaint
Type
Movies
Released
1998
Runtime
80 min
Country
Belgium, France, Italy
Genres
Comedy
Ratings
★ IMDb 6.3 · 241 ratings
Feels mostly
Humor
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