Le Brio

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Le Brio
Directed by Yvan Attal
Written byYaël Langmann
Victor Saint Macary
Yvan Attal
Noé Debré
Bryan Marciano
Produced by Dimitri Rassam
Benjamin Elalouf
Starring Daniel Auteuil
Camélia Jordana
Cinematography Rémy Chevrin
Edited byCélia Lafitedupont
Music byMichael Brooks
Production
companies
Chapter 2
France 2 Cinéma
Moonshaker
Nexus Factory
Distributed by Pathé
Release date
  • 22 November 2017 (2017-11-22)
Running time
95 minutes
CountryFrance
LanguageFrench
Budget$11.1 million [1]
Box office$10.9 million [2]

Le Brio [3] is a 2017 French comedy film directed by Yvan Attal. [4]

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Plot

Neïla lives in the Paris suburb Créteil with her mother and grandmother. She enrolls herself into Panthéon-Assas University in the hopes of becoming a lawyer, but meets with public humiliation tainted with racism from the controversial professor Mazard when she arrives late for one of his lectures. The incident finds its way online, and the dean of the law school catches wind of the incident and steps in, only to task the professor, as a means to make amends, to mentor Neïla for an upcoming debating/public speaking contest. Although Neïla finds Mazard cynical and exacting, she learns from him, and both of them have to overcome their prejudices during the course of working together.

Cast

Background

The film was shot in Paris, at Panthéon-Assas University, Nanterre University, the Sorbonne and the Sainte-Geneviève Library in the 5th arrondissement. The scenes in the Paris métro where Neïla has to talk to indifferent passengers were filmed on the 3bis metro line. [5]

Camélia Jordana received the César Award for Best Female Revelation in 2018; the film itself and Daniel Auteuil were also both nominated for the Césars.

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References

  1. "Le Brio (2017)- JPBox-Office". www.jpbox-office.com.
  2. "Le brio".
  3. This could be translated as 'brilliance' or 'panache'.
  4. "" Le Brio ", la parole à Neïla". La Croix (in French). 21 November 2017.
  5. Le métro parisien, star de cinéma (leparisien.fr, 6 May 2018, Jean-Gabriel Bontinck0, accessed 12 May 2018.