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Juliette Binoche | ... | Irène Montano | |
John Turturro | ... | William Pound | |
Sara Forestier | ... | Orlando | |
Tom Riley | ... | David | |
Nick Nolte | ... | Elliott | |
Mathieu Demy | ... | Le jeune banquier | |
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Saïd Amadis | ... | Le vieux banquier |
Magne-Håvard Brekke | ... | Igor Zyberski (as Magne-Havard Brekke) | |
Joël Lefrançois | ... | Le concierge de l'hôtel | |
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Alexis Galmot | ... | Le serveur |
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Jean-Luc Lucas | ... | Le contrôleur |
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Roberto Moro | ... | Le gardien du palais |
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Julien Husson | ... | L'homme à la cigarette |
September the 1st, 2001. Elliot, an American C.I.A. agent holding top secret information on the immediate future of the world, disappears. His sole aim was to meet his daughter Orlando, whom he abandoned ten years before. Irène, a French agent who used to work with him, and David, his adoptive son, will help him and lead the girl to her father. Chased by William Pound, a strangely poetic psycho, they will defy the dangers of international espionage from Paris to Venice and finally get to Elliot on September the 11th 2001. Written by Gemini Films
Despite a very good cast and a clever idea, this film never happened. The acting was good but the director was self-indulgent with his filming technique.
The film was slow and built no tension, and by time Nick Nolte arrived, the film had already died on its backside. The film wasted time on juvenile political discussion. I literally thought that the American boy would accuse the French girl as being a cheese eating surrender monkey, but of course they just fall in love! Every single role was unoriginal from John Turtoro's poetry reading psycho to Juliet Binoche's cool french spy. Given such an important political possibility, the film said absolutely nothing.