A DAY AT THE MUSEUM (Musée haut, musée bas) Official Selection: Richmond French Film Festival (2009), French Film Festival of Greenwich (2009) West Coast Premiere Comedy France, 2008 In French with English subtitles 35mm/1:1.85/Color/Dolby SRD/96 min Written and Directed by: Jean-Michel Ribes Cinematography by: Pascal Ridao Editing by: Yann Malcor Original Music by: Reinhardt Wagner Produced by: Frédéric Brillion, Gilles Legrand, Dominique Besnehard Production Company: Epithète Films, Mon Voisin Productions Co-produced by: France 3 Cinéma International sales: KINOLOGY 65 rue de Clichy 75009 Paris Tel: +33 9 51 47 43 44 With: Michel Blanc (Mosk), Victoria Abril (Clara), Pierre Arditi (Henri Province), Josiane Balasko (The mother wearing Chanel), Isabelle Carré (Carole Province), André Dussollier (The Minister), Gérard Jugnot (Roland Province), Valérie Lemercier (Valérie), Fabrice Luchini (The Guardian), Yolande Moreau (Madame Stenthels), François Morel (Hervé Parking), Daniel Prévost (Maurice Bagnole), Muriel Robin (La dame Kandinsky) http://www.museehaut-lefilm.com/ Based on Jean-Michel Ribes’ widely successful play, translated in many languages and played abroad after its two-year run in Paris, A Day at the Museum is a satire of the art world and its pretentious attitudes toward novelty or "high culture" that also boldly pokes fun at neophyte art fans. Boasting a dizzying cast of well-known actors, including Victoria Abril, Pierre Arditi, Josiane Balasko, Michel Blanc, André Dussollier, Fabrice Luchini or Muriel Robin, A Day at the Museum also features cameos from Writer-Director Tonie Marshall, Producer Dominique Besnehard, Writer-Director Jean-Michel Ribes and former Canal plus CEO Pierre Lescure. From a Minister of Culture admiring a photo exhibit of private parts to a group of provincial visitors obsessed with the Impressionists, A Day at the Museum is a joyfully mad succession of clever repartee and absurdist humor reminiscent of Monty Python. ABOUT JEAN-MICHEL RIBES At the age of twenty, Jean-Michel Ribes created his theater troupe La Compagnie du Pallium (1966) and quickly made his mark in French theater circles. He started writing and directing films in the 1970s with Out of Whack (1979) and became known to a larger audience in 1988, when he wrote the successful comedy series Palace for French TV channel Canal plus, starring Philippe Khorsand. He also co-wrote and directed the comedies The King’s Cake (1986) and Every Man For Yourself (1993) and adapted Sacha Guitry’s play Faisons Un Rêve for television (1996). After a ten-year hiatus, he returned to cinema in 2006 with the award-winning Private Fears in Public Places, directed by Alain Resnais, which he adapted from a play by Alan Ayckbourn. Director of the Parisian Theâtre du Rond-Point since 2001, he remains an essential figure of French theater while pursuing his film career. PRESS "All-star, high-concept comedy "A Day at the Museum" proves that only the French could produce a feature consisting mostly of one-liners about Gauguin, Modigliani and the sexual practices of impressionist painters." (Variety) "Don’t wait for the Great Flood to get on this Noah’s Ark (...) By welcoming an endangered species (like culture) onboard, it takes us on beautiful waves of laughter, far from mediocrity." (Paris Match) "Art is, in fact, the central subject of Musée haut,musée bas, which, underneath its intense atmosphere, is a moving homage to these houses of painting and sculpture. Beauty, or more precisely, the search for beauty, occupies a key place in our lives, and the director presents this search to be essential to mankind, just as the humor he masters so well." (Le Nouvel Observateur)