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Dates: 2012 (Copyright), 05 September 2012 (Release)Country: FranceDirector: Pascal Bonitzer
Synopsis: Comedy/Drama. Damien, a Chinese civilization professor lives with his wife, Iva, but their marriage has become stagnant. When she asks her husband to help her friend avoid deportation by getting his powerful father to help arrange her residency papers, Damien’s life changes forever.
Genres: Comedy, Drama
Subjects: Marriage, Infidelity, Fathers, Sons, Asylum, Work permits
Releases
Date: 05 September 2012Country: FranceRelease type: TheatricalFormat: not specified - Colour - Sound - Dolby DigitalAspect ratio: 2.35:1Dialogue (original): French / Dialogue (original): Serbo-Croatian / Subtitles: French
Date: 09 August 2013Country: United KingdomRelease type: TheatricalFormat: not specified - Colour - Sound - Dolby DigitalAspect ratio: 2.35:1Runtime: 100 mins 14 secs - Length: 9021 FeetDialogue (original): French / Dialogue (original): Serbo-Croatian / Subtitles: EnglishDistributor: Arrow Film Distributors Ltd
Dates: 2012 (Copyright), 05 September 2012 (Release)Country: FranceDirector: Pascal Bonitzer
Synopsis: Comedy/Drama. Damien, a Chinese civilization professor lives with his wife, Iva, but their marriage has become stagnant. When she asks her husband to help her friend avoid deportation by getting his powerful father to help arrange her residency papers, Damien’s life changes forever.
Genres: Comedy, Drama
Subjects: Marriage, Infidelity, Fathers, Sons, Asylum, Work permits
Releases
Date: 05 September 2012Country: FranceRelease type: TheatricalFormat: not specified - Colour - Sound - Dolby DigitalAspect ratio: 2.35:1Dialogue (original): French / Dialogue (original): Serbo-Croatian / Subtitles: French
Date: 09 August 2013Country: United KingdomRelease type: TheatricalFormat: not specified - Colour - Sound - Dolby DigitalAspect ratio: 2.35:1Runtime: 100 mins 14 secs - Length: 9021 FeetDialogue (original): French / Dialogue (original): Serbo-Croatian / Subtitles: EnglishDistributor: Arrow Film Distributors Ltd
Credits
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©: SBS Productions, Production Company: SBS Productions, [Produced] with the participation of: Orange Cinema Series, [Produced] in association with: Cinémage 6, Soficinéma 8, [Produced] with the support of: Region Ile-de-France, Centre National du Cinéma et de l’image Animée, [Produced] with the participation of: Centre National du Cinéma et de l’image Animée, Produced by: Saïd Ben Saïd, Production Manager: Olivier Hélie, Location Scout: Michèle Massé, Post-production Supervisor: Abraham Goldblat, 1st Assistant Director: Juliette Maillard, Script Supervisor: Clémentine Schaeffer-Becker, Casting Director: Antoinette Boulat, Casting Director: Bernard Savin Pascaud, Written by: Agnès de Sacy, Written by: Pascal Bonitzer, Director of Photography: Romain Winding, 1st Assistant Operator: Malik Brahimi, Steadicam Operator: Jan Rubens, Visual Effects: Sara Helmlinger, Visual Effects: Olivier Camus, Visual Effects: Def2shoot, Editor: Elise Fievet, Production Designer: Manu de Chauvigny, Costume Designer: Marielle Robaut, Key Make-up: Judith Gayo, Hairdresser: Virginie Duranteau, Music: Alexei Aïgui, Music Performed by: Musica Viva, Music Performed by: Ensemble 4'33, Conductor: Alexei Aïgui, Sound: Philippe Richard, Sound: Gérard Hardy, Sound: Olivier Dô Hùu, Stunts: Rémy Canaple, Stunts: Antonio Cides, Stunts: Christophe Tolozzi, Thanks: André Téchiné, Thanks: Philippe Le Guay, [Thanks for his] article 'Les yeux vers le ciel ou comment travailler avec les Asiatiques': Alain de Sacy
Cast
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Jean-Pierre Bacri (Damien), Isabelle Carré (Aurore), Kristin Scott Thomas (Iva), Claude Rich (Sebastien Hauer), Marin Orcand Tourrès (Noé), Masahiro Kashiwagi (Satoshi), Arthur Igual (Antoine), Jackie Berroyer (Lobatch), Agathe Bonitzer (Laetitia), Iliana Lolic (Vera), Francis Leplay (Marco), Philippe Duclos (Henri H), Josèphine Derenne (Blandine Hauer), Stanislas Stanic (Marek)