Movie Infos
France 2000
Director: Laurent Firode
Script: Laurent Firode
Genre: Comedy / Drama
Cast: Faudel, Eric Savin, Nathalie Besançon, Lysiane Meis, Irène Ismaiiloff, Eric Feldman, Frédéric Bouraly, Franck Bussi, Marina Tomè, Fèlicitè Wouassi, Antoine Coesens, Saiid Serrari, Lily Boulogne, Gilbert Robin
Audrey’s role: Irène
Synopsis
“Le Battement d’ailes du Papillon” is a tale of coincidence, chance, and fate inspired by a variation of the chaos theory, which supposes that if a butterfly beats its wings in one part of the world, it could theoretically cause a full-fledged storm thousands of miles away. Is this theory true?
Irène is a young retail worker reading her horoscope on the train to work one morning. At the store, Irène has to deal with an elderly woman (Francoise Bertin) who wants to return a broken coffeemaker; as if that weren’t enough, the dissatisfied octogenarian consumer has to put up with her impudent grandson, Luc (Eric Feldman). Amidst all the seemingly unrelated human activities in the film, cockroaches, bird droppings, and changes in the weather all conspire to bring the characters together – or drive them apart, as the case may be.
