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decided to help his family, against her husband's advice. She then sinks into depression and decides to leave the news channel. She heads off to Bavaria, to a health resort in the heart of the snow-capped mountains, where she meets Charles Castro, a young man undergoing treatment. They begin an affair, and France is relieved to meet someone who doesn't know of her fame. However, she discovers that Charles is an unscrupulous journalist who has tricked her into falling in love with him for a magazine piece he is writing on her. Although the young man tells her he's really fallen in love with her, she violently rejects him.
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Back in Paris, she resumes her job at the station, and endures harassment from Charles, who has become obsessed with her. She is not really cured of her depression. The sudden death of her husband and son in a car accident takes its toll on her, but strangely enough, after hitting rock bottom, she
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One morning, while driving her son to school, France knocks down a young man on a scooter. The event was immediately exploited by social networks, and she realized how fragile her popularity was. Sincerely affected by the fate of Baptiste, whom she had sent to hospital, she went to visit him and
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realizes that her previous problems were rather trivial, and decides to give Charles another chance, as he may be the only one left she can turn to.
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The film follows the life of a star television journalist caught in a spiral of events that will lead to her downfall. Between drama and comedy,
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seeks to compare the intimate and public crisis of a young woman with a portrait of contemporary France. The film had its world premiere at the
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might have benefited from a more passionate approach to its themes, but Léa Seydoux leads an amusing send-up of celebrity culture."
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directing from a screenplay he wrote. In June 2020, the film was re-titled from
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on 15 July 2021. It was released in France on 25 August 2021 by ARP Selection.
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on 15 July 2021. It was released in France on 25 August 2021 by ARP Selection.
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Index


Bruno Dumont
Rachid Bouchareb
Léa Seydoux
Blanche Gardin
Benjamin Biolay
Juliane Köhler
Christophe
Arte
Ciné+
Cannes
comedy-drama
Bruno Dumont
Léa Seydoux
Blanche Gardin
Benjamin Biolay
Juliane Köhler
Cannes Film Festival
Léa Seydoux
Blanche Gardin
Léa Seydoux
Blanche Gardin
Benjamin Biolay
Juliane Köhler
Emmanuel Macron
Léa Seydoux
Blanche Gardin
Benoît Magimel
Bruno Dumont
Principal photography

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