Valta ja rakkaus

Original title: Le bon plaisir

19841984
1h 48m

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Catherine Deneuve, Jean-Louis Trintignant, and Michel Serrault in Valta ja rakkaus (1984)

Drama Romance

In Paris, a women's bag, which contains an embarrassing letter from the french president, is stolen.In Paris, a women's bag, which contains an embarrassing letter from the french president, is stolen.In Paris, a women's bag, which contains an embarrassing letter from the french president, is stolen.

IMDb RATING

6.3/10

542

YOUR RATING

POPULARITY

100,456

54,109

Director
- Francis Girod
Writers
- Françoise Giroud(based on the novel by)
- Francis Girod(adapted by)
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Awards
- 2 nominations

Trivia
This movie was made in 1983, two years after François Mitterrand had been elected President of the French Republic. Mitterrand had a daughter out of wedlock christened Mazarine, which was then nine years old and being raised in utmost secrecy. As in the case of JFK & Marilyn, all the cognoscenti in the French press knew and no one would tell. But Françoise Giroud, a renowned journalist, published in 1983 a 'roman à clefs': "Le bon plaisir" which was a thinly disguised version of the story. As a hidden message to her peers, she had the book published by editions Mazarine!

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8/10

Astonishing parallels with Mitterand

This movie, made in 1983, relates the story of a French president who has an illegitimate child whose existence becomes a state secret. When the film was released, Mitterand was a newly elected president, but what was not known to the public was that Mitterand had had an illegitimate child whose existence was a state secret up to around the time of Mitterand's death. The secret was known to many journalists and, it would seem, to the makers of this film. There is no way, this could be pure coincidence, there are just too many parallels. It makes very interesting viewing now. Above all there is, as one might expect, superb acting from Deneuve, Trintignant and Serrault. Not to be missed.

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