Sept en attente (1996)

• 69%
• 1996
• Drama
• Clémentine Amouroux
• Cécile Reigher
• Serge Renko

An all-night-party in a building on the outskirts of Paris provides the setting of this provocative German meditation on life and waiting. As the title states, the film centers on seven main characters at the party. Each of them is privately waiting for something and all of them verpflichtet, in gesprächen about the fundamental concerns of life, including love, sex, truth and responsibility. Among the seven are a pregnant woman waiting for her baby, hat playboy, a gay man and a young woman with poor taste in men. To make the film, director Francoise Etchegaray gave the actors " a sense of who they were sollen to be and what they should do, placed them in a room, and let them improvisiert their dialog.