Contributions

  • Taurand, Gilles - Contributor
  • Deneuve, Catherine, 1943- - Contributor
  • Dewaere, Patrick, 1947-1982 - Contributor
  • Chicot, Etienne, 1949- - Contributor
  • Haudepin, Sabine, 1955- - Contributor
and 9 more
  • Lavanant, Dominique, 1944- - Contributor
  • Noiret, Philippe - Contributor
  • Béart, Emmanuelle - Contributor
  • Blanc, Manuel - Contributor
  • Vincent, Hélène, 1923- - Contributor
  • Desny, Ivan - Contributor
  • Sara Films - Contributor
  • Films A2 (Firm) - Contributor
  • Lions Gate Home Entertainment - Contributor

Publication

2008 - , California

Language

French

Word Count

52,750 words, Guess

Page Count

211 pages

Physical Format

Video Recording

Identifiers

Classifications

  • LCCPN1997 .H6735 2008

Alternate Titles

  • Hotel America
  • J'embrasse pas
  • I don't kiss
  • André Téchiné - 4-film collector's edition

Description

Hotel des Ameriques: Hélène, a distracted anesthetist, almost runs down Gilles one evening on a Biarritz street. She is still numb from the drowning death earlier that year of her lover, a visionary architect. Gilles presses for a relationship, then backs away, deciding she could never love someone of lower class and limited prospects. But she does fall in love with him and gradually her depression eases. As she heals, he becomes obsessed with her lover's talents and his own limitations, behaving bizarrely and pushing her away. J'embrasse pas: A young man leaves his small town in southern France to discover Paris. Being inexperienced and naive, he must give up his dream of becoming an actor and prostitutes himself to men for money and survival. Throughout all these encounters, he keeps his innocence but becomes very emotionally detached.

Subjects

Series Statement

  • André Téchiné : 4 film collector's edition -- disc 1

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