Hotel des Ameriques
Subtitle: Hotel America
By: a co-production Sara Films ; Films A2 ; producer, Alain Sarde ; régie, André Techiné. J'embrasse pas = I don't kiss / a French-Italian coproduction Président Films, Bac Films, Salomé S.A., Ciné Cinq, Gruppo Bema ; producer, Jean-Jacques Albert ; original screenplay, Jacques Nolot ; adapted by André Téchiné and Michel Grisolia ; régie, André Techiné
Contributors: Taurand, Gilles; Deneuve, Catherine, 1943-; Dewaere, Patrick, 1947-1982; Chicot, Etienne, 1949-; Haudepin, Sabine, 1955-; Lavanant, Dominique, 1944-; Noiret, Philippe; Béart, Emmanuelle; Blanc, Manuel; Vincent, Hélène, 1923-; Desny, Ivan; Sara Films; Films A2 (Firm); Lions Gate Home Entertainment
Series: André Téchiné : 4 film collector's edition -- disc 1; André Téchiné : 4 film collector's edition -- disc 1.
Published: 2008
Language: fre
Format: [videorecording] =
Number of pages: 211
Subjects: Drama; Foreign films; Man-woman relationships; Male prostitutes; French Motion pictures
Other titles: Hotel America; J'embrasse pas; I don't kiss; André Téchiné : 4-film collector's edition
Description: Hotel des Ameriques: Hélène, a distracted anesthetist, almost runs down Gilles one evening on a Biarritz street. She is still numb from the drowning death earlier that year of her lover, a visionary architect. Gilles presses for a relationship, then backs away, deciding she could never love someone of lower class and limited prospects. But she does fall in love with him and gradually her depression eases. As she heals, he becomes obsessed with her lover's talents and his own limitations, behaving bizarrely and pushing her away.

J'embrasse pas: A young man leaves his small town in southern France to discover Paris. Being inexperienced and naive, he must give up his dream of becoming an actor and prostitutes himself to men for money and survival. Throughout all these encounters, he keeps his innocence but becomes very emotionally detached.
Notes: DVD release of the 1981 and 1991 motion pictures.

Hotel des Ameriques: writers, Gilles Taurand, André Techiné ; music, Philippe Sarde ; cinematography, Bruno Nuytten ; editor, Claudine Merlin.

J'embrasse pas: cinematography, Thierry Arbogast ; music, Philippe Sarde ; editors, Claudine Merlin, Edith Vassart.

Hotel des Ameriques: Catherine Deneuve, Patrick Dewaere, Etienne Chicot, Sabine Haudepin, Dominique Lavanant.

J'embrasse pas: Philippe Noiret, Emmanuelle Béart, Manuel Blanc, Hélène Vincent, Ivan Desny, Christophe Bernard, Roschdy Zem, Raphaëline Goupilleau.

DVD ; widescreen presentation ; Dolby digital mono.

In French with optional subtitles in English or Spanish.