Life of Riley (2014 film)

Life of Riley French Aimer, boire et chanter is a 2014 French comedydrama film directed by Alain Resnais in his final feature film before his death. Adapted from the play Life of Riley by Alan Ayckbourn, the film had its premiere in the competition section of the 64th Berlin International Film Festival, just three weeks before Resnais died, where it won the Alfred Bauer Prize.

Resnais said that he was drawn to Ayckbourns play Life of Riley by its portrayal of a group of characters who are constantly mistaken about the behaviour and motives of the others and about their own it questions whether people really match the descriptions which others give of them. Resnais also like the challenge of Ayckbourns device of having all the real action take place offstage with characters speaking about things which the audience never sees.For the third film in succession, Resnais using his writers pseudonym of Alex Reval worked with the writerdirector Laurent Herbiet on the screenplay of Aimer, boire et chanter, remaining faithful to the text of Ayckbourns play except for some shortening and preserving its English setting in Yorkshire. He then asked the playwright JeanMarie Besset, whom he knew for other adaptations of English dramatists, to write the French dialogue with his own rhythms and phrasing. ........

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