Coincidences

About Coincidences

Coincidences is a 1947 French drama film directed by Serge Debecque and starring Serge Reggiani, Andrée Clément and Pierre Renoir. It was shot at the Boulogne Studios in Paris and on location in Lyon. The film's sets were designed by the art director Maurice Colasson.

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Coincidences (French: Coïncidences) is a 1947 French drama film directed by Serge Debecque and starring Serge Reggiani, Andrée Clément and Pierre Renoir. It was shot at the Boulogne Studios in Paris and on location in Lyon. The film's sets were designed by the art director Maurice Colasson.

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Synopsis

The librarian of a wealthy textile manufacturer from Lyon is in love with his employer's daughter, but she is engaged to another man an army officer. When he is offered three magic balls that will seemingly change his fortunes, he accepts, but they ultimately lead towards a tragic destiny.

Cast

Serge Reggiani as Jean Ménétrier

Andrée Clément as Françoise

Pierre Renoir as Monsieur Bardolas

Sylvie as Amélie

Jean Parédès as Montboron

Pierre Sergeol as Poncet - un assureur

Maurice Schutz as Le vieux paysan

Louis Florencie as Pierre Calmiran - un assureur

Robert Le Béal as Gérard Tibur

Guy Favières as Le père de Françoise

Marcel Vibert as Le médecin

Suzanne Bara as Bardolas' Secretary

Ulric Guttinguer as L'architecte

Albert Gercourt as Monsieur Goulard - le contremaître

Marcel Charvey as L'agent immobilier

Denise Grey as Madame Bardolas

Françoise Delille as Michèle

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Notable quotes

“People are entirely too disbelieving of coincidence. They are far too ready to dismiss it and to build arcane structures of extremely rickety substance in order to avoid it. I, on the other hand, see coincidence everywhere as an inevitable consequence of the laws of probability, according to which having no unusual coincidence is far more unusual than any coincidence could possibly be.”
— Isaac Asimov, The Planet that Wasn't, originally published in The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction (May 1975)
“Of course, I’m only indulging in mankind’s vice of trying to make a symbol out of coincidence.”
— Philip José Farmer, The Fabulous Riverboat (1971), Chapter 6
“Coincidence may be described as the chance encounter of two unrelated causal chains which — miraculously, it seems — merge into a significant event.”
— Arthur Koestler (1905–1983), Hungarian-born British author. “Janus: A Summing Up”, Bricks to Babel: Selected Writings, with Comments by the Author (1980)
“It is no great wonder if in long process of time, while fortune takes her course hither and thither, numerous coincidences should spontaneously occur.”
— Plutarch, Parallel Lives, vol. II, "Sertorius"
“The laws of probability not only permit coincidences; they absolutely insist on them.”
— Charles Sheffield, Rogueworld (1983), reprinted in The Compleat McAndrew (2000), , p. 223
““Fifty-nine,” Mr. Mowen said. “That’s too many coincidences to just be a coincidence.””
— Connie Willis, Blued Moon (originally published in Asimov's Science Fiction, January 1984)

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