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When the Cat's Away...

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Chloé (Garance Clavel) desperately wants to go on vacation but needs to find a caretaker for her cat, Gris-Gris. After her flamboyant roommate, Michel (Olivier Py), declines to help, Chloé entrusts her cat to Madame Reneé (Renée Le Calm). When she returns from her trip, Chloé learns Gris-Gris has disappeared without a trace. Determined to find her precious cat, Chloé turns to, among others, Djamel (Zinedine Soualem), a shy Arab, and a hard-drinking musician (Romain Duris) for help.

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Roger Ebert Chicago Sun-Times When the Cat's Away is like a very subtle, curious, edgy documentary, in which we get interested in Chloe because she has lost her cat, and by the end we almost have to be reminded that the cat is missing. Rated: 3/4 Jan 1, 2000 Full Review Dan Lybarger Nitrate Online A charming French import with lots of heart. Rated: 4/5 Sep 25, 2005 Full Review Emanuel Levy EmanuelLevy.Com Rated: 3/5 Jun 29, 2005 Full Review Carol Cling Las Vegas Review-Journal Rated: 4/5 Mar 19, 2004 Full Review Frank Swietek One Guy's Opinion Rated: 4/5 Dec 22, 2003 Full Review Jim Shelby Palo Alto Weekly Rated: 2.5/4 May 20, 2003 Full Review Read all reviews

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Audience Member Even though understand it was a 1996 French film, & directed by Cédric Klapisch, still can't quite stand for its trivia & hollowness. Rated 1.5 out of 5 stars 02/04/23 Full Review Audience Member Characters and relations! Rated 5 out of 5 stars 02/19/23 Full Review Audience Member Very good movie, but very hard to find. Rated 5 out of 5 stars 02/13/23 Full Review Audience Member One of the most favorite French movie of mine ! Rated 4.5 out of 5 stars 02/21/23 Full Review Audience Member Sympathique petite aventure parisienne, c'est sympathique, frais, ça rappelle Mon Oncle et c'est bien plus léger que la meringuee Amelie Poulain Rated 4 out of 5 stars 02/20/23 Full Review Audience Member View it at Broadway when it was founded in 1990s. Like the cat named Grey-grey in French. Rated 3.5 out of 5 stars 02/11/23 Full Review Read all reviews
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Cédric Klapisch

Director

Garance Clavel

Chloé

Zinedine Soualem

Djamel

Olivier Py

Michel

Renée Le Calm

Madame Renée

Romain Duris

Le joueur de batterie

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Movie Info

Synopsis Chloé (Garance Clavel) desperately wants to go on vacation but needs to find a caretaker for her cat, Gris-Gris. After her flamboyant roommate, Michel (Olivier Py), declines to help, Chloé entrusts her cat to Madame Reneé (Renée Le Calm). When she returns from her trip, Chloé learns Gris-Gris has disappeared without a trace. Determined to find her precious cat, Chloé turns to, among others, Djamel (Zinedine Soualem), a shy Arab, and a hard-drinking musician (Romain Duris) for help.
Director
Cédric Klapisch
Producer
Aïssa Djabri, Farid Lahouassa, Manuel Munz
Screenwriter
Cédric Klapisch
Distributor
Sony Pictures Classics
Rating
R
Genre
Romance, Comedy
Original Language
Canadian French
Release Date (Theaters)
Jun 20, 1996, Original
Box Office (Gross USA)
$1.8M
Runtime
1h 30m
Sound Mix
Dolby Digital
Aspect Ratio
1.66:1