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2019 film
I Wish Someone Were Waiting for Me Somewhere
Directed byArnaud Viard
Written byArnaud Viard in collaboration with Thomas Lilti, Emmanuel Courcol & Vincent Dietschy.
Produced byMarc-Benoît Créancier
Starring
CinematographyEmmanuel Soyer
Edited byVéronique Bruque
Music byClément Ducol
Production
companies
  • Easy Tiger
  • France 2 Cinéma
Distributed by
  • Orange studio (International)
  • UGC Distribution (France)
Release date
Languages
  • French
  • English
Budget$4.2 million
Box office$3.4 million

I Wish Someone Were Waiting for Me Somewhere (French: Je voudrais que quelqu'un m'attende quelque part) is a French film directed by Arnaud Viard released in 2019 with an adapted screenplay from Anna Gavalda's homonymous collection of twelve short stories.

Plot

Aurore celebrates her 70th birthday surrounded by her friends and four grown children: the eldest Jean-Pierre is the father of a family and wine representative, Juliette is a French teacher and dreams of career as a writer, Margaux is a freelance photographer, and Mathieu is single at 30 years old. Since the death of their father, Jean-Pierre naturally assumes the paternalistic and benevolent role with his siblings. One day, he is contacted by his old friend Héléna, a fashionable theater actress, who tells him terrible news.

Cast

Production

Most of the filming took place in Fixin, in Côte-d'Or. Part of the shooting took place from September 3 to 7, 2018 in Dijon.

Box office

The film was first released in France on January 22, 2020, in 367 theaters and sold 27,040 tickets on opening day. The first week ends with 212,027 tickets sold. The second weekend saw attendance drop by 57.07% despite 22 additional theaters. The film is entering its seventh week passed the bar of 450,000 tickets sold.

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