Cause toujours... tu m'intéresses ! (1979)
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Jean-Pierre Marielle, Annie Girardot, Jacques François, Christian Marquand, Michel Blanc
A lonely journalist's impulsive call to a stranger grows into an unlikely connection complicated by the stories he tells about himself.
The story
François Perrin is a minor journalist who reads the news on RTL and lives alone, with occasional conversation from his next-door neighbor as his main diversion. One bored evening, he calls a random phone number and reaches Christine, a pharmacist who is somewhat of an old maid. She initially hesitates to end the call but becomes involved in the game with the charming stranger. After a date fails to happen, François tries to spend time with her while hiding his modest circumstances behind claims that he is a famous foreign correspondent and, in other calls, a great writer. Christine, meanwhile, must disentangle herself from family life and overbearing relatives.
Full plot (contains spoilers)
François Perrin is a minor journalist who reads the news on RTL. He is alone in life, and his only “diversion” is his next-door neighbor, who occasionally keeps him talking. But one bored evening, he decides to call a random phone number. He gets through to Christine, a pharmacist who is a bit of an old maid. Though she hesitates before hanging up right away, she gets caught up in the game with the charming stranger on the other end of the line. After a date that never happens, he tries to spend time with her by pretending to be a famous foreign correspondent, while continuing to call her as though he were a great writer, so she won’t be disappointed by his lowly circumstances. Meanwhile, she has to untangle herself from her family life—and, above all, from her somewhat overbearing relatives...
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