Agnès Jaoui, Let It Rain & Danièle Thompson, Change of Plans

In this feature on two of contemporary French cinema's most prominent auteurs, filmmaker-actor Agnès Jaoui and filmmaker Danièle Thompson discuss their methods and most recent work. Both begin with the writing, always in person, together. Jaoui, who has collaborated and costarred with Jean-Pierre Bacri in such previous efforts as The Taste of Others and Look at Me, returns with Let It Rain, in which she plays a politician who visits a provincial town and participates in a documentary on "successful women." Thompson segued from screenwriter to writer-director which she writes with her son Christopher Thompson, with 1999's La bûche. Her fourth feature Change of Plans, featuring Dany Boon, Emanuelle Seigner and the younger Thompson, intriguingly presents 10 people at a dinner party, then follows them a year later to see how much--or little--has changed.

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