This
film is based on a novel, Quai d’Orsay and also a speech by the former French
Foreign Minister Dominique de Villepin.
Picture a man with silver hair, tanned skin, dressing with style, tall,
impressive, women find him attractive and he is the Minister of Foreign Affairs
for the French Government. Another
man is younger, newly hired, a graduate of the National School of
Administration and he is the head of language. His title doesn’t explain what he does and his job is to
write the speeches for the minister.
This is not an easy job and he will need to sort out the people who can be trusted. There is stress,
ambition, lying, gossip, smearing and everyone is trying to elevate their own
position on a day-to-day basis.
Comedy
and what is considered “funny” must be entirely different in France and it is
somehow lost on me as an American?
It is a slog to read the subtitles and not even achieve a
hint of a tee-hee from this film! 2*
(I didn’t like this movie)
113
min, Comedy directed by Bertrand Tavernier with Thierry Lhermitte, Raphael
Personnaz, Niels Arestrup, Bruno Raffaelli, Julie Gayet, Anais Demoustier,
Thomas Chabrol Thierry Fremont.
Note: Imdb 6.4 out of 10, 65% critic 56%
audience on Rotten Tomatoes, Roger Ebert 2*.
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