Roselyne and the Lions (also known as Roselyne et les lions) is a 1989 French film directed by Jean-Jacques Beineix, starring Isabelle Pasco and Gérard Sandoz. It tells the story of a couple of circus workers.
Plot Thierry does odd jobs in a zoo in Marseille in exchange for lessons from Frazier the lion trainer. He meets Roselyne and they leave together to find work. They are taken on by a circus in Munich and achieve success as lion trainers when the trainer Klint loses his nerve.
Cast Isabelle Pasco as Roselyne Gérard Sandoz as Thierry Gabriel Monnet as Frazier Philippe Clévenot as Bracquard Günter Meisner as Klint Wolf Harnisch as Koenig Jacques Le Carpentier as Markovitch Carlos Pavlidis as Petit Prince Jacques Mathou as Armani Dumitru Furdui as Stainer Jaroslav Vízner as Gunter Patrice Abbou as Ben Jemoul 2 Silvio Bolino as Touron François Boum as Ben Jemoul 1 Guillaume Briat as Matou
Release The film was screened at the 1989 Toronto International Film Festival and the 1989 Tokyo International Film Festival.
Reception Phil Powrie of British Film Institute commented that the film "tried to recapture what made Betty Blue so successful, with two young circus lion tamers in another doomed romance." He added, "Its shiny images seem now almost a parody of the cinéma du look, although the style echoes that of one of Beineix's mentors, Stanley Kubrick."
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