Louise-Michel (2008)

User Rating:

7.4/10   

Directors:

Gustave de Kervern
Benoît Delépine

Writers:

Benoît Delépine (screenplay)
Gustave de Kervern (screenplay)

Release Date:

24 December 2008 (Belgium)

Genre:

Comedy

Plot:

What to do when the workers of a factory have been laid off overnight? Louise has an original idea: why not pool the compensation money to ...

Plot Keywords:

France | Forced Relocation | Contract Killer | Tractor | Factory Worker

Awards:

2 wins & 1 nomination

Cast

Yolande Moreau	...	Louise Ferrand
Bouli Lanners	...	Michel Pinchon
Benoît Poelvoorde	...	Guy l'ingénieur
Albert Dupontel	...	Miro
Joseph Dahan	...	L'employé des pompes funèbres
Mathieu Kassovitz	...	Le propriétaire de la ferme
Agnès Aubé	...	La veuve
Kafka	...	Flambart, le sous-directeur (as Francis Kuntz)
Hervé Desinge	...	Le directeur de l'usine en Picardie
Fabienne Berne	...	La secrétaire
Terence Debarle	...	Terence
Yannick Jaulin	...	L'employé de banque
Jacqueline Knuysen	...	Jackie
Sylvie Van Hiel	...	Sylvie, la déléguée syndicale
Pierrette Broodthaers	...	Pierrette

Runtime:

France:94 min

Country:

France

Language:

French

Color:

Color

Aspect Ratio:

1.66 : 1

Sound Mix:

Dolby SR

Certification:

France:U

Filming Locations:

Brussels, Belgium

Company:

MNP Entreprise

Trivia:

Selected for the Festival Internazionale di Roma 2008 (Section: L'altro Cinema)

Movie Connections:

Features "Aglaë et Sidonie" (1968)

Soundtrack:

Métabolisme explosif en milieu terrestre

Put Thelma On Hold

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With Thelma and Louise they were just teed off at Men, now, with Miche and Louise - although this time around it's Louise who gets top billing - there's an arguably greater cause for all the bloodshed, our old friend redundancy. Chances are this one was planned at least and maybe even written long before the current financial crisis but whichever way you slice it it couldn't be more timely. Yolande Moreau is virtually the only name in the cast and even she probably means little outside France; she's a fine actress yet about the only other leading role she got was one that she wrote for herself and, for good measure directed as well. Nine times out of ten she's playing for laughs and/or warmth but this time she is able to get her teeth into something with more gravitas and does so superbly. To put it simply she's just another worker in a factory that closes literally overnight - the workers turn up one morning and the place is bare. No one can figure out what to do until Louise has a brainwave; kill the boss. That's it but as I keep saying it's all in the wrists and Yolande's are among the best in the business.