HELLO GOODBYE Official Selection: Atlanta Jewish Film Festival (2009) West-Coast Premiere Comedy France/Israel/Italy, 2008 In French with English subtitles 35mm/1.85/Color/ Dolby SR-SRD & DTS, 99 min Directed by: Graham Guit Written by: Graham Guit, Michael Lellouche Based on a novel by: Moshe Gaash Cinematography by: Gérard Stérin Editing by: Marie-Blanche Colonna Original Music by: Produced by: Fabio Conversi Production Company: Babe Films Co-produced by: Metro Communications, United King Films, Film Kairos, SND, Linkia Films, La Filmeraie International Sales: SND/M6 DA 89, avenue Charles-de-Gaulle 92575 Neuilly sur Seine Tel: +33 1 41 92 66 66 www.m6da.com U.S. Distributor: LIBERATION ENTERTAINMENT 1990 Westwood Blvd. – Penthouse 3 Los Angeles CA 90025 Tel: 310 446 2021 With: Fanny Ardant (Gisèle), Gérard Depardieu (Alain), Jean Benguigui (Simon), Manu Payet (Shapiro), Lior Ashkenazi (Yossi), Claudine Baschet (grand-mother), Julien Baumgartner (Nicolas), Francoise Christophe (Alain’s mother), Muriel Combeau (Mme Saint-Alban), Jean-François Elberg (Mr Sapin), Sasson Gabai (police chief) The comfortable bourgeois existence of Alain (Gérard Depardieu) and Gisèle (Fanny Ardant) is challenged when their only son announces that he is getting married. Unsettled by this change, they decide to take a break and go on vacation in Israel, to put things in perspective and “explore Alain’s Jewish roots.” They have such a wonderful time that Gisèle suddenly wants to move there in search of a new life. Alain is reluctant about the idea but Gisèle convinces him and against the advice of their friends and family, they move to Israel. Once they arrive in the country, nothing goes as planned: their apartment is still in construction, Alain can’t find a job and Gisèle falls for a handsome rabbi. Forced to question their identity, they reinvent themselves and give their life a new direction. ABOUT GRAHAM GUIT Graham Guit made two short films Caleb (1984) and Le Roman de Léo (1993) before writing and directing his first feature, Shooting Stars (1997), starring Melvil Poupaud (Time To Leave, Speed Racer) and Romane Bohringer (Savage Nights, The Chambermaid on the Titanic). After a second film with Poupaud, The Kidnappers (1998), Graham Guit directed Gérard Depardieu and Élodie Bouchez in Pact of Silence, a film based on the novel Sacred and Profane by Marcelle Bernstein. With Gérard Depardieu and Fanny Ardant, Graham Guit reunites the legendary duo of The Woman Next Door and Colonel Chabert, for his fourth feature Hello Goodbye, co-written with Michel Lellouche.