Synopsis

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Two years after a burn out, Duval, unemployed, is contacted by a mysterious employer to retranscribe tapped telephone calls. Without ever wondering about the organization employing him, Duval, in desperate straits, takes the job. Although this simple work allows him to get back on his feet, it will nevertheless place him at the center of a political conspiracy, plunged, despite himself, into the brutality and strangeness of the underground world of the secret service.

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Technical Specifications

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Genre: Spy Thriller

Directed by: Thomas Kruithof

Written by: Thomas Kruithof and Yann Gozlan

Starring: François Cluzet, Denis Podalydès, Sami Bouajila, Simon Abkarian, and Alba Rohrwacher

Producers: Thibault Gast and Matthias Weber (24 25 Films)

Co-producers: Scope Pictures

With the participation of: Canal + and OCS

In association with: A Plus Image 6, Cofimage 27, Sofitvciné 3

Distribution: Ocean Films Distribution

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Release Date: January 11, 2017

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Selections

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BFI London Film Festival (Thrill)

The American French Film Festival (Selected French Films)

Turin Film Festival

Tübingen | Stuttgart International French-Language Film Festival

Gijon International Film Festival

Angoulême French Film Festival

Helvétie French Film Festival (Premieres)

Arras Film Festival

Rendez-vous – Nuovo cinema francese

Rendez-vous of Unifrance in Paris

 

Press Reviews

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"Noticed at the Angoulême French Film Festival 2016, Thomas Kruithof delivers a thriller with formidable efficiency written with Yann Gozlan (A Perfect Man), focusing on a character 'out of step.'"

Le Figaro - 01/10/2017

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"The contemporary chronicle turns into a spy thriller, even a political crime story whose main quality is a no-frills direction leading to abstraction and resulting in a Kafkaesque nightmare."

Sud Ouest - 01/10/2017

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"For his first feature film, director Thomas Kruithof offers us a French spy thriller that has all the makings of a great film. (...) A quartet of talent that gives this work, halfway between thriller and politics, an ideal framework to brilliantly talk about the state of the world and the backstage of power."

aVoiraLire.com - 01/04/2017