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Bookmark this pageLouise Wimmer (2011)
Director: Cyril Mennegun
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From Time Out Online
This low-key, French social realist film from Cyril Mennegun, a young French filmmaker with a brief background in documentaries is an intimate and affecting study of the life of a middle-aged woman on the margins of society. Corinne Masiero is Louise, a woman who has split from her husband, whose children are adults and whose entire hand-to-mouth existence seems to rest on making it on time to a thankless hotel cleaning job and hoping her failing car will start in the morning. ‘Louise Wimmer’ is familiar but fosters a genuine concern for this woman’s well-being and features a courageous performance from Masiero. Its interest in the thin line between helping and exploiting the vulnerable is also interesting, even if the way it ultimately lets the French social services off the hook is a little surprising.Author: Dave Calhoun
Time Out Online London Film Festival 2011
Cast & crew
Director: Cyril Mennegun
Cast: Corinne Masiero, Jérôme Kircher, Anne Benoit, Marie Kremer, Jean-Marc Roulot
Genre(s): Drama
Duration: 80 mins
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