Le Septième Ciel (Seventh Heaven) (1997)
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57% of critics liked it
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61% of users liked it
(761 ratings)
Parisienne mother Mathilde (Sandrine Kiberlain), who shares a large apartment with her surgeon husband Nico (Vincent Lindon), sometimes works at the legal business run by her mother (Francine Berge). With a stagnant sex life, the bored Mathilde prowls department stores to steal toys for her son. At… More Parisienne mother Mathilde (Sandrine Kiberlain), who shares a large apartment with her surgeon husband Nico (Vincent Lindon), sometimes works at the legal business run by her mother (Francine Berge). With a stagnant sex life, the bored Mathilde prowls department stores to steal toys for her son. At a party with Nico, she realizes she's being watched by a doctor (Francois Berleand), and she spots him on the metro the following day. He tells her he's a psychiatrist, and they have their first session in a deserted restaurant. While the doctor's cure does appear to work for Mathilde, there's a trade-off: Nico's behavior becomes increasingly abnormal. This film has no connection to the earlier (1927, 1937) Hollywood films with the same title. Shown at the Venice and Toronto film festivals. ~ Bhob Stewart, Rovi
- Directed By
- Benoît Jacquot
- Written By
- Benoit Jacquot and Jerome Beaujour, Benoît Jacquot, Jérôme Beaujour
- Genres
- Drama, Art House & International, Comedy
Unrated,
- In Theaters
- Jul 31, 1998 Wide
- On DVD
- Nov 16, 1999
- Studio
- Zeitgeist Films
Critic Reviews
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Frederic and Mary Ann Brussat, Spirituality and Practice
A witty drama filled with clever little vignettes explores the disturbances that can rock a marital relationship when change takes place in one partner.
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Richard Porton, Film Journal International
Instead of stressing the farcical potential of Nico's mid-life crisis, the film becomes an uninvolving melodrama which lacks dramatic tension.
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Arthur Lazere, culturevulture.net
begins to seem like a Buñuel-influenced trip into Jung. The film has that sort of funny-but-not-really tone.
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Cast
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Sandrine Kiberlain
as Mathilde
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Vincent Lindon
as Nico
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François Berléand
as The Doctor
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Francine Bergé
as Mathilde's Mother
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Pierre Cassignard
as Etienne
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Philippe Magnan
as The Practitioner
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Florence Loiret
as Chloe
- Eriq Ebouaney
- Florence Loiret Caille
- Leo Le Bevillon
- Sylvie Loeillet
