In the Courtyard
In the Courtyard

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Antoine is too depressed to go on playing in his rock band. After wandering in the streets, he decides to seek an occupation. Unskilled as he is, he is lucky to be hired as the caretaker of an old Paris apartment building. He soon proves good at his job, even if he performs it a little eccentrically, and everybody grows fond of him. Antoine also develops a particular friendship with Mathilde, a recently retired woman who lives in the block and whose mental balance is deterior... (Full plot summary below)

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Actors in In the Courtyard:

Catherine Deneuve
Pio Marmaï
Féodor Atkine
Nicolas Bouchaud
Gustave Kervern
Lévanah Solomon

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Antoine is too depressed to go on playing in his rock band. After wandering in the streets, he decides to seek an occupation. Unskilled as he is, he is lucky to be hired as the caretaker of an old Paris apartment building. He soon proves good at his job, even if he performs it a little eccentrically, and everybody grows fond of him. Antoine also develops a particular friendship with Mathilde, a recently retired woman who lives in the block and whose mental balance is deteriorating...

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En Filme - 7/10 by Jorge CarriónSalvadori explores themes and layers of the genre that are very uncommon. [Full review in Spanish]
Clarín - 6/10 by Pablo A. Scholz... lovable and quirky characters. [Full review in Spanish]
User Review - 8/10 by Maik NThe movie's topic is depression. The mood of the movie catches really good the emptyness that everyone who has suffered from depression can relate to. It is shown in the good acting of the protagonist, Antoine, who expresses as little emotions as possible. Also the music does good to that mood, mainly because there is hardly no music at all. And if there is music it is underlining the emptyness or pain of the situation really good (An emotional piano or a distorted synthesizer). Funny passages are mixed with numb and depressed scenes which gives the movie a kind of funny absurdity. All in all the movie made me feel good. That is because Antoine is someone I can sympathize with and he tries to become positive and help people. I think the movie is also about understanding and listening to each other instead of silencing our problems and becoming lonely. It is uplifting and realistic at the same time.
User Review - 8/10 by Jan vIn short: Very commendable showcasing of a micro-cosmos living around a Parisian courtyard, with some peculiar but endearing inhabitants I saw this film at the Berlinale film festival 2014. It was the international premiere in a venue with more than 1,500 booked seats, in presence of film makers and main actors. There was no Q&A afterwards. I'm not sure why I liked this one much more than "A Long Way Down" (Chaumeil, 2014) that I saw earlier in the same week, in spite of many traits they have in common. Both films are mere entertainment, casting well known actors which will attract many viewers regardless of its contents, neither has an express intention to carry a message or a morale, both will trigger several laughs, and have more than sufficient unexpected turns of events. I assume that the courtyard film had a definite advantage in its diversity and strangeness of the main characters living in the large house, in fact in a micro cosmos, yet not too far fetched and not too artificial, all that working to keep us interested throughout its running time. It has no useful purpose to summarize the plot here. The story line is very easy to follow, the characters are properly introduced and one gets ample chance to get to know them better.
User Review - 6/10 by Dani PMoving story about two depressed people who become friends. You laugh and cry in this dramedy and it's nice to follow their battles on screen. Both leading actors are superb, specially Deneuve, besides great supporting roles. The problem with the script is the lack of attention to Antoine, whom we have no idea about how his past was and why he became a sad, drug addict man. This hurts the film a little bit. Also the fact that we see repeated scenes of him make the story quite boring in sometimes. We don't have any particular message here, nothing incredible, but performances compensate that. Watch it for Deneuve if you will.
User Review - 6/10 by Nina LPierre Salvadori made his first sad movie. We were more used to his comedies but this 50ish unemployed man who finds a job as a doorman and the beginning of his love story with a 60ish woman from the building is quite depressing for the viewer. However, it remains a good movie with a good pace in a confined space.
User Review - 4/10 by Leena LEnter Espoo Cine 2014: Catherine Deneuve. Boldly letting her self be the real age of herself (71). Going slightly mad, being helped by a janitor, who helps everyone around the courtyard, except himself. One of these French dime-a-dozen-films full of weird characters and one big name, nothing else. Entertaining, but nothing spectacular. Without her, nothing much.
User Review - 2/10 by Christian SUn autre mauvais film avec Catherine Deneuve. Histoire de gens perdus dans leurs vies et leurs têtes. du temps perdu.

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