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Director: Benoît Jacquot
Movie review
From Time Out Film Guide
This wry, low key satirical comedy benefits from a wonderful performance by Luchini as a disgraced businessman just out of jail. The one time captain of industry has completely reassessed his priorities. He's more interested in chatting to his chauffeur, his wife's hairdresser or ex-prison colleagues than in justifying his previous cut throat behaviour. Jacquot's trick is to take a cynical, sophisticated capitalist and turn him into a holy innocent. At times, as he bumbles around Paris, he evokes memories of Peter Sellers' gardener in Being There. The businessman's wife (Huppert) and family are perplexed by the transformation. Audiences, too, are likely to be a little baffled by a film which focuses so intently on such a quizzical, inscrutable character.Author: GM
Cast & crew
Director: Benoît Jacquot
Producer: Philippe Carcassone, Georges Benayoun
Cast: Fabrice Luchini, Isabelle Huppert, Vincent Lindon, Vahina Giocante, Sophie Aubry, Andréa Parisy, Thérèse Liotard, Ludovic Bergery full cast
Genre(s): Comedy
Duration: 106 mins
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