Casse-tête chinois

Xavier's life really got to the point where it started to resemble a Chinese puzzle, everything somehow turns upside down, although it was almost not perfect. It would seem that he is 40 years old and life should be getting better by now, but no. He breaks up with his English wife, who decides to move to New York. The man also has to fly to the USA from his native France, because how else can he see his own children? In America, the hero has a hard time, despite the fact that this is the land of dreams, where hopes seem to come true. Illegal work, life in Chinatown and new acquaintances fill Xavier with new feelings that hide what he didn't like so much at first. Read more This film with the participation of Romain Duris and Audrey Tautou is part of a kind of trilogy by Cédric Klapisch. The top three, in addition to "The Chinese Puzzle", includes the films "The Spanish Woman" (2002) and "The Beauties" (2005), where the same Totu and Duris play. In addition, "Chinese puzzle" is the 11th joint work of the director and Romain Duris. Since the main actor, growing up with his character, also has children, it was easier for him to understand and delve into the situation that befell his character. While working on the film, the crew stopped work for a while due to an unexpected disaster in the form of Hurricane Sandy. At the same time, it became a small plus, because several shots of desert New York were shot. This city does not appear for the first time in the frame of the director's camera. The first short work of Cedric Klapish was filmed in the Big Apple. Despite the fact that the character of Audrey Tautou did not have to speak Chinese very much in the frame, the actress still decided to devote a lot of time to this language. In this way, the woman spent two hours a day for six weeks learning how to pronounce words correctly so that her Chinese in the frame looked perfect.