Le Brio
Le Brio | |
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Directed by | Yvan Attal |
Written by | Yaël Langmann Victor Saint Macary Yvan Attal Noé Debré Bryan Marciano |
Produced by | Dimitri Rassam Benjamin Elalouf |
Starring | Daniel Auteuil Camélia Jordana |
Cinematography | Rémy Chevrin |
Edited by | Célia Lafitedupont |
Music by | Michael Brooks |
Production companies | |
Distributed by | Pathé |
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Running time | 95 minutes |
Country | France |
Language | French |
Budget | $11.1 million[1] |
Box office | $10.9 million[2] |
Le Brio[3]is a 2017 Frenchcomedy filmdirected byYvan Attal.[4]
Plot
[edit]Neïla lives in the Paris suburbCréteilwith her mother and grandmother. She enrolls herself intoPanthéon-Assas Universityin the hopes of becoming a lawyer, but meets withpublic humiliationtainted with racism from the controversial professor Mazard when she arrives late for one of his lectures. The incident finds its way online, and the dean of the law school catches wind of the incident and steps in, only to task the professor, as a means to make amends, to mentor Neïla for an upcoming debating/public speaking contest. Although Neïla finds Mazard cynical and exacting, she learns from him, and both of them have to overcome their prejudices during the course of working together.
Cast
[edit]- Daniel Auteuilas Pierre Mazard, professor of law
- Camélia Jordanaas Neïla Salah, law student
- Yasin Houicha as Mounir, Neïla's boyfriend, and driver
- Nozha Khouadra as Neïla's mother
- Nicolas Vaudeas the Président de Paris II-Panthéon Assas
- Jean-Baptiste Lafargeas Benjamin, a law student
- Claude Perronas the woman walking her dog
- Virgil Leclaire as Keufran, a friend of Neïla
- Zohra Benali as the grandmother of Neïla
- Damien Zanoly as Jean Proutot, a law student
- Jean-Philippe Puymartinas the chair of the competition
- Paulette Joly as Madame Mazard
Background
[edit]The film was shot in Paris, atPanthéon-Assas University,Nanterre University,theSorbonneand theSainte-Geneviève Libraryin the5th arrondissement.The scenes in the Paris métro where Neïla has to talk to indifferent passengers were filmed on the3bis metro line.[5]
Camélia Jordanareceived theCésar Award for Best Female Revelationin 2018; the film itself and Daniel Auteuil were also both nominated for theCésars.
References
[edit]- ^"Le Brio (2017)- JPBox-Office".www.jpbox-office.com.
- ^"Le brio".
- ^This could be translated as 'brilliance' or 'panache'.
- ^""Le Brio", la parole à Neïla ".La Croix(in French). 21 November 2017.
- ^Le métro parisien, star de cinéma (leparisien.fr, 6 May 2018, Jean-Gabriel Bontinck0,accessed 12 May 2018.
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