Le Cancre

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Le Cancre
Le Cancre.jpg
Theatrical release poster
Directed by Paul Vecchiali
Written byPaul Vecchiali
Noël Simsolo
Produced byThomas Ordonneau
Paul Vecchiali
Starring Catherine Deneuve
Paul Vecchiali
CinematographyPhilippe Bottiglione
Edited byVincent Commaret
Paul Vecchiali
Music byRoland Vincent
Production
companies
Dialectik
Shellac Sud
Distributed byShellac
Release dates
  • 18 May 2016 (2016-05-18)(Cannes)
  • 5 October 2016 (2016-10-05)(France)
Running time
116 minutes
CountryFrance
LanguageFrench

Le Cancre is a 2016 French film directed and written by Paul Vecchiali. With this film, Paul Vecchiali shows the story of a man who revisits his past as much as that of a filmmaker who revisits a whole part of French cinema.

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Plot

The film follows the adversarial relationship between a father and son, both incurably emotional. The father is haunted by the memory of Marguerite, the great love of his youth, and he lives only in the hope of finding her. The son however is somewhat lost in his life, and later takes the measure of his attachment to his grandfather.

Cast

Production

The film started shooting on 5 October 2015. [1]

Release

The movie was released in 2016. It was nominated at the Cannes Film Festival in 2016. [2]

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References

  1. Léo Moser. "Catherine Deneuve et Mathieu Amalric au casting du nouveau film de Paul Vecchiali". Les Inrockuptibles.
  2.  Le Cancre » : les femmes de sa vie". Le Monde.fr (in French). 2016-05-19. Retrieved 2021-01-07.