The Model Couple

Electronic happiness, a huge farce. What will the French be like in 2000? To what extent can we handle them, program them? In order to come up with the answer the Minister of the Future selects a model couple, Jean-Michel and Claudine, and sets them up in an antiseptic “happiness capsule”, an apartment in which every part of their life can be monitored, located in the center of “a new city for the new man” that is under construction. “What do these tests hope to achieve? What games do scientists play? Successive dramatic twists up to the last joke, an incredible pie-throwing contest. The experiment ends in violence, like every triumphant initiative of our liberal society.”
William Klein
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Script: William Klein
Cinematography: William Klein
Editing: Valerie Mayoux
Sound: Henri Moline
Music: Michel Colombier
Actors: Andre Dussollier (Jean Michel), Anemone (Claudine), Georges Descrieres (Minister of the Future), Jacques Boudet, Zouc, Eddie Constantine
Production: Films Paris New York, Institut National de l’Audiovisuel, Artcofilms
Producers: Roger Fleytoux,William Klein
Sets: Francoise Deleu
Format: Digital Beta, Color
Production Country: France, Switzerland
Production Year: 1975-76
Duration: 100

William Klein

Filmography

1964-65 Cassius the Great
1966 Who Are You, Polly Maggoo? (fiction)
1970 Eldridge Cleaver Black Panther
1974 Muhammad Ali the Greatest
1978 Maydays
1980 The Little Richard Story
1981 The French
1985 Mode in France
1991 Babilee ’91
1993 In and Out of Fashion
1999 The Messiah