Masquerade (2022 film)

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Masquerade
Mascarade 2022 film poster.png
Theatrical release poster
French Mascarade
Directed by Nicolas Bedos
Written byNicolas Bedos
Produced by
  • François Kraus [1]
  • Denis Pineau-Valencienne [1]
Starring
CinematographyLaurent Tangy [1]
Edited by
  • Anny Danché [1]
  • Clément Selitzki [1]
Music byAnne-Sophie Versnaeyen [1]
Production
companies
Distributed byPathé [1]
Release dates
  • 27 May 2022 (2022-05-27)(Cannes)
  • 1 November 2022 (2022-11-01)(France)
Running time
134 minutes [2]
CountryFrance
LanguageFrench
Budget 14–15 million [3] [4]
Box office$6.7 million [5]

Masquerade (French : Mascarade) is a 2022 French crime comedy-drama film written and directed by Nicolas Bedos. The film was screened out of competition at the 2022 Cannes Film Festival. [6] [7]

Contents

Premise

A young gigolo and an attractive con artist plot a devilish scheme on the French Riviera.

Cast

Production

Principal photography began on 8 June 2021 in Nice. [8]

Reception

Critical response

On the review aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes, the film holds an approval rating of 83% based on 6 reviews, with an average rating of 7/10. [9] Masquerade received an average rating of 2.5 out of 5 stars on the French website AlloCiné, based on 31 reviews. [10]

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