Dorante, an impoverished young man, is taken on as a secretary by Araminte, a rich widow with whom he is secretly in love. The valet Dubois does all he can to get Araminte to fall in love with Dorante. Following his staging of Marivaux’s comedy at the Odéon theater, Luc Bondy turns the whole theater building into a film studio, placing his actors in the foyer, under the stage, in the kitchens, using the most unusual and unexpected spots to invent a new dynamic between theater and film.
Isabelle Huppert
as Araminte
Louis Garrel
as Dorante
Bulle Ogier
as Madame Argante
Yves Jacques
as Dubois
Manon Combes
as Marton
Bernard Verley
as Monsieur Rémy
Jean-Pierre Malo
as Comte Dorimont
Fred Ulysse
as Arlequin
Sylvain Levitte
as Garçon Joaillier
Georges Fatna
as Laquais John
Arnaud Mattlinger
as Le professeur de Tai Chi
Nicolas Peduzzi
as Un secrétaire
