Credited cast: | |||
Sylvie Testud | ... | Béa | |
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Amar Ben Abdallah | ... | Larbi |
Clovis Cornillac | ... | Christian | |
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Martine Godart | ... | Isabelle |
Jean-Paul Rouve | ... | Pine | |
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Thierry Bertein | ... | Gigi |
Dominique Baeyens | ... | Doriane | |
Hervé Pierre | ... | Verhoeven | |
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Malek Kateb | ... | Larbis Vater |
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Karim Attia | ... | Nasser |
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Manon Seys | ... | Emilie |
Rest of cast listed alphabetically: | |||
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Christiane Billat | ... | Larbi's Mother |
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Armand Bomel | ||
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Frédéric Bossaert | ||
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Pierrick Boulogne |
While the local population of Dunkerque drinks away their dissatisfaction in life during the yearly Karnaval, second generation Algerian immigrant Larbi gets mixed up in the festivities looking for the local girl Bea.
In my quest to see every $*#)$*ing film that Sylvie Testud has ever done, I got my hands on the vhs of Karnaval, in which the captivating French actress who won me over big time in The Chateau appears in nearly every scene. This is a good thing, a very, very good thing: the film would not have been nearly as entrancing without her - in fact, I probably would have been bored, although the carnival scenes were excellent. (See? I managed to keep my objectivity.)