Atlantic City
Louis Malle
Sally is a waitress in an Atlantic City casino who dreams of becoming a croupier. Her husband Dave has left her for her younger sister Chrissie. One day she sees them selling cocaine. Chrissie is pregnant and Sally accepts to take them in. Lou, a nostalgic former gangster who is a neighbour and admirer of Sally, helps Dave dispose of his drugs...
With : Burt Lancaster, Susan Sarandon, Kate Reid, Michel Piccoli, Hollis MacLaren, Robert Joy, Al Waxman
Screenplay : John Guare
Image : Richard Ciupka
Sound : Jean-Claude Laureux
Music : Michel Legrand
Editing : Suzanne Baron
Decors : Anne Pritchard
Screenplay : John Guare
Image : Richard Ciupka
Sound : Jean-Claude Laureux
Music : Michel Legrand
Editing : Suzanne Baron
Decors : Anne Pritchard
Production : Ciné-Neighbour Montréal, ICC, Selta Films
Atlantic City, New Jersey, a run-down former seaside resort in the 1960s became the Las Vegas of the East Coast in 1978. "This strange, baroque place fascinates me. It was love at first sight. I wanted to tell its story, show the contrast between its past and its present, bring out the contemporary phenomenon of evolution. I never doubted that Atlantic City was the main character", said the director. Susan Sarandon represents the present that is built up, whereas the symbol of the past is Burt Lancaster. "Lancaster was very reserved at the beginning of the shoot, but then our mutual admiration for Visconti brought us closer together. He accepted to work without make-up in a not very flattering role, and we worked together on the dialogues, making them authentic. The result? I think that Atlantic City is my most Amreican film, maybe more so than Pretty Baby, and the few Americans that have seen it accepted it as such" (Louis Malle).