NEAREST TO HEAVEN
synopsis
The first film produced (in part) in Manhattan after 9/11 is a love story based on Leo McCarey's An affair to remember starring Deborah Kerr and Cary Grant. Here the protagonists are Fanette is a world-weary French writer who falls in love with an American photographer called Matt. She goes to New York to meet him on the viewing platform of the Empire State Building.
| international title: | Nearest to Heaven |
| original title: | Au plus près du paradis |
| country: | France, Spain, Canada |
| sales agent: | Pyramide International |
| year: | 2002 |
| genre: | fiction |
| directed by: | Tonie Marshall |
| film run: | 90' |
| release date: | FR 20/11/2002, CH 20/11/2002, BE 04/12/2002, AT 13/12/2002, BG 17/01/2003, GR 30/05/2003, ES 07/11/2003 |
| screenplay: | Tonie Marshall, Anne-Louise Trividic |
| cast: | Catherine Deneuve, WIlliam Hurt, Bernard Le Coq, Hélène Fillières |
| cinematography by: | Agnès Godard |
| film editing: | Jacques Comets |
| art director: | Pierre-François Limbosch, Ginette Robitaille |
| costumes designer: | Friquette Thevenet, Marielle Robaut, Ginette Magny, Daniel Lenoir, Jean-Paul Gaultier |
| music: | François Dompierre, David Hadjadj, Jerome Robotier |
| producer: | Olivier Bomsel, Fabienne Vonier |
| production: | Maïa Cinéma, Pyramide Productions, Tabo Tabo Films, Cinemaginaire (CA), Lolafilms (ES), France 2 Cinema (FR) |
| distributor: | Pyramide Distribution, JMH Distribution (CH), Les Films de l'Elysée (BE), Cinestar Filmverleih (AT), Vadi Van Kris (BG), Rosebud (GR), Lolafilms (ES) |
