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Denis Podalydès | ... | |
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Florence Pernel | ... | |
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Bernard Le Coq | ... | |
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Michèle Moretti | ... | |
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Samuel Labarthe | ... |
Dominique de Villepin
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Emmanuel Noblet | ... |
Bruno Le Maire
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Mathias Mlekuz | ... | |
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Laurent Solly
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Pierre Cassignard | ... |
Frédéric Lefèbvre
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Dominique Besnehard | ... |
Pierre Charon
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Michel Bompoil | ... | |
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Saïda Jawad | ... |
Rachida Dati
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Gérard Chaillou | ... | |
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Nicolas Moreau | ... | |
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A look at French president Nicolas Sarkozy's rise to power.
Plot Keywords:
french president | prime minister | dysfunctional couple | control freak | government minister |Taglines:
The man behind the woman behind the man.Genres:
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Country:
FranceLanguage:
FrenchRelease Date:
18 May 2011 (France) See more »Also Known As:
De Nicolas a Sarkozy See more »Box Office
Opening Weekend:
$16,273 (USA) (11 November 2011)Gross:
$68,479 (USA) (24 February 2012)Company Credits
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The other reviewer spoke about how good the imitators are here, and it's true. The actors who play the parts of Chirac, de Villepin, and a few of the other roles, look a great deal like their real-life counterparts. But that wasn't what most interested me in this very entertaining movie. This is really a no-holds-barred presentation of Sarkozy as a monomaniacal, power-hungry little despot. I couldn't imagine such a film being made about a sitting president here in the US. Even Michael Moore's depiction of Bush during the 9/11 disaster, while it ridicules him, comes nowhere close to this sort of thing. Nor does Frost/Nixon, which of course was filmed long after Nixon left office.
Where fact stopped and fiction/imagination begins I didn't always know. But this is one very devastating movie, all the more so because Denis Podalydes does not settle for some sort of caricature, which, given Sarkozy's personal ticks, would have been easy. He gives a very developed, well-rounded presentation of a rather frightening, and not really funny, individual - who could learn a lot about himself by watching this movie.