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Overview

User Rating:
6.9/10   284 votes
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Director:
Abdel Kechiche
Writer:
Abdel Kechiche (scenario and dialogue)
Contact:
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Release Date:
14 February 2001 (France) more
Genre:
Drama more
Awards:
7 wins & 1 nomination more
User Comments:
Marginalized France more

Cast

  (Cast overview, first billed only)
Sami Bouajila ... Jallel

Élodie Bouchez ... Lucie
Bruno Lochet ... Franck

Aure Atika ... Nassera

Olivier Loustau ... Antonio
Virginie Darmon ... Leila
Mustapha Adouani ... Mostfa
Sami Zitouni ... Nono
Carole Franck ... Barbara
Jean-Michel Fête ... Philippe
Manuel Le Lièvre ... André
François Genty ... Paul
Meryem Serbah ... La marieuse (as Meriem Serbah)
Francis Arnaud ... Le fonctionnaire
Nejlb Nekales ... Hocine
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Additional Details

Also Known As:
Blame It on Voltaire (International: English title)
It's Voltaire's Fault (International: English title)
Poetical Refugee (USA)
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Runtime:
130 min
Country:
France
Language:
French | Arabic
Color:
Color
Aspect Ratio:
1.85 : 1 more
Sound Mix:
Dolby Digital
Company:
Flach Film more

Fun Stuff

Soundtrack:
Eli Ma Bgha Yebghini more

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5 out of 6 people found the following comment useful:-
Marginalized France, 20 May 2002
7/10
Author: stensson from Stockholm, Sweden

There is a French Film festival running in Stockholm now and the common distributors are to be blamed, not letting us see many of these films before. "La faute à Voltaire" is about a Tunisian immigrant, cheating his way through the French bureaucracy, and a mental hospital, but finding solidarity and real friendship among people living in the poorest conditions of Paris of today.

There is a beautiful love story also. The immigrant at the hospital meets a disturbed "nymphomaniac" girl, very well played by Èloudie Bouchez, and starts a somewhat destructive but not altogether destructive relation with her.

This is very far from common American and common Swedish film indeed. It is about real people.

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