Melodrama

Melodrama

90 mins | April 10, 1976

This black-and-white film explores the dividing line between the theatrical imagination and everyday reality in its story of a narcissistic silent movie actor who believes his screen image as a great lover but is in fact a confused bisexual. His girlfriend, also an actress, is also caught up in the fuzzy space between fantasy and reality but feels this as a loss and tries to do something about it.

Melodrama

90 mins | April 10, 1976

Melodrama
This black-and-white film explores the dividing line between the theatrical imagination and everyday reality in its story of a narcissistic silent movie actor who believes his screen image as a great lover but is in fact a confused bisexual. His girlfriend, also an actress, is also caught up in the fuzzy space between fantasy and reality but feels this as a loss and tries to do something about it.
Producers Centre Européen Cinéma-Radio-Télévision (CECRT)
Original title Mélodrame
Directors Jean-Louis Jorge, Natalie Perrey
Writers Jean-Louis Jorge

Cast

Martine Simonet

as Nora Legri

Vicente Criado

as Antonio Romano

Maud Molyneux

as Anna

Benoît Ferreux

as Johnny

Manuela Miranda

as La Manuelita

Orla Frau

as Marion Davies

Franckie

as Nazimova

Veronique Moulonguet

as L'odalisque