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Released
2017 · FILM

C'est la vie!

A weary wedding planner faces his final, chaotic assignment with a demanding groom, a diva singer, and a disengaged girlfriend, all while trying to keep the night from completely unraveling.

Runtime
115 min
Language
FR
ComedyDramaRomance

Synopsis

Max is a battle-weary veteran of the wedding-planning business. His latest—and final—assignment is a particularly challenging event, featuring caterers required to wear stuffy period costumes, a vain, hypersensitive singer who sees himself as a Gallic James Brown, and a gloomy, micromanaging groom determined to make Max's night as unpleasant as possible. The situation becomes even more difficult when Max realizes that his colleague and supposed girlfriend, Joisette, appears to have given up on him, carrying out her professional duties with detachment while openly flirting with a much younger server. It's going to be a very long night—especially once the groom's aerial serenade begins.

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How many hands made this film

The scale of the collaboration

Principal cast & crew: 23

These are the principals we have on file — the full crew ran to the hundreds. Every film this size was made by far more hands than any credits list ever names.

Why a floor?

This is a minimum, not a total. We only count the credits we’ve captured so far, and coverage is uneven — a blockbuster might show a few hundred names while another of the same size shows a couple dozen. The real crews all ran into the thousands. The number here only grows as full credits are enriched — so we frame it as a floor, never a headcount.

Craft leads on file

Edited by Dorian Rigal AnsousShot by David ChizalletScored by Avishai CohenDesigned by Nicolas De Boiscuille

Box Office

2017 · Box office

⚖️ Fell short of break-even — grossed 1.4× its budget

Why 2.5×?

Cinemas keep roughly half of every ticket sold, and a wide release’s marketing often costs about as much again as the film — so a movie needs to gross around 2.5× its production budget just to break even theatrically. It’s a rule of thumb, not the studio’s ledger (home video and streaming come later).

Worldwide gross

$23.8M

Budget$17.2M
Worldwide gross$23.8M
break-even (2.5×)

Also known as

  • Das Leben ist ein Festde
  • C'est la vie!en
  • La fiesta de la vidaes
  • C'est la vie - Prendila come vieneit

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