Film

La Patinoire

5.719981h 20mComedy

Belgium · France · Italy

Director: Jean-Philippe Toussaint
Year: 1998

La Patinoire is about a film director who is shooting a highly symbolic film called 'Dolores' at an ice rink. He has hired a Lithuanian ice hockey team with which he is having enormous communication problems. His actors all have inflated egos, his film crew is made up of fools, and there is a politician on his back. But he must finish the film, no matter what, in time for the Venice Film Festival.

Top cast

Tom Novembre

Director

Mireille Perrier

Assistant

Marie-France Pisier

Producer

Jean-Pierre Cassel

Ice Rink's Manager

Bruce Campbell

Actor

Dolores Chaplin

Actress

Gilbert Melki

Stand in of the Actress

Dominique Deruddere

Cinematographer

Jean-Loup Horwitz

The Sound Engineer

Éva Ionesco

The Editor

Valérie Lecomte

Script Girl

Paolo De Vita

Italian Festival Manager Assistant

Rasa Urbonaite

Interpreter

Viktor Senin

Lithuanian Trainer

Olivier Dessalles

Journalist

Dominic Gould

Head Key Grip

Franck Ema-Otu

Key Grip

Istvan Van Heuverzwyn

Gaffer

Directed by

Jean-Philippe Toussaint

Written by

Jean-Philippe Toussaint

Produced by

Pascal Judelewicz