La Patinoire (1998)
La Patinoire is about a film director who is shooting a highly symbolic film called 'Dolores' at an ice rink. He has hired a Lithuanian ice hockey team with which he is having enormous communication problems. His actors all have inflated egos, his film crew is made up of fools, and there is a politician on his back. But he must finish the film, no matter what, in time for the Venice Film Festival.
- Date of release
- 1998-11-01
- TMDB
- 5.7 / 10 (6)
- Runtime
- 1h 20m
- Genres
- Comedy
- Director
- Jean-Philippe Toussaint
Casting
- Tom Novembre — Director
- Mireille Perrier — Assistant
- Marie-France Pisier — Producer
- Jean-Pierre Cassel — Ice Rink's Manager
- Bruce Campbell — Actor
- Dolores Chaplin — Actress
- Gilbert Melki — Stand in of the Actress
- Dominique Deruddere — Cinematographer
- Jean-Loup Horwitz — The Sound Engineer
- Éva Ionesco — The Editor
- Valérie Lecomte — Script Girl
- Paolo De Vita — Italian Festival Manager Assistant
Interesting facts
The Ice Rink is a 1998 comedy film written and directed by Jean-Philippe Toussaint. It stars Tom Novembre, Mireille Perrier, Dolores Chaplin, Marie-France Pisier, Jean-Pierre Cassel, Gilbert Melki, and Bruce Campbell.
Production
The film was shot in Franconville, a suburb of Paris, France.
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