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SHOWTIME<br />
Wednesday, Nov 11, 11:30am CP-Lauderdale<br />
Thursday, Nov 12, 5:30pm, CP- Hollywood<br />
NOS FEMMES<br />
WORLD<br />
CINEMA<br />
FEATURE<br />
FLORIDA PREMIERE<br />
Director: Richard Berry<br />
F<br />
France / 2015 / 90 min / DCP /<br />
French w/English sub-titles<br />
Max, Paul and Simon have been friends for 35 years.<br />
They take great pleasure in their one vacation a year<br />
together without their partners and meet-up regularly<br />
to spend evenings drinking or playing cards. Each has<br />
a successful career and they all appear to have perfect<br />
lives until the night Simon announces to his<br />
friends that he has just strangled his wife, Estelle after<br />
a blazing row. Max and Paul are horrified by Simon’s<br />
confession, but worse is to come when Simon asks<br />
them to lie and provide him with an alibi for the time<br />
Estelle was killed. Both men are torn between lying<br />
or turning over their best friend to the police.<br />
Nos Femmes is following in a tradition for films celebrating<br />
male friendship that have long proved fertile<br />
ground for French directors. There’s been Hugo<br />
Gélin’s Comme des Frères, Marc Esposito’s Les<br />
Coeurs des Hommes 1,2 and 3,La Vérité si Je Mens<br />
(|Would I Lie to You) 1,2 and 3 and just last week<br />
Olivier Baroux examined male relationships in the<br />
comedy Entre Amis, with Auteuil once again in the<br />
lead role. Buddy movies are not the exclusive property<br />
of French directors, but it’s interesting to ask why<br />
there are so many films made in France about male<br />
friendships and so few about the female equivalent?<br />
Of course Berry’s film is not just about the ties<br />
between men, but also about the limits of friendship<br />
and how far one person can ever truly know another.<br />
Deep stuff, but Berry knows when to lighten the mood<br />
and shift the film in a completely different direction.<br />
Although publicity for the film shows the three actors<br />
together, this is really a two-man show with Berry and Auteuil expertly batting the witty, incisive dialogue back and forth while covering a range<br />
of issues from moral responsibility, to the nature of friendship, fidelity, and, of course, love and mariage. And it’s funny – really, laugh out loud<br />
funny – especially the unforgettable sight of Berry dancing and rapping to Dans Ma Benz by French group, NTM. Nos Femmesis a real treat<br />
for audiences who will enjoy watching Berry and Auteuil at the top of their game and a script that provides genuine food for thought.<br />
Writer: Eric Assous, Richard Berry / Producer(S) : Thomas Langmann (La Petite Reine), Sébastien Delloye (Entre Chien Et Loup) / Cast : Daniel<br />
Auteuil, Richard Berry, Thierry Lhermitte / Contact: Kinology, Paris<br />
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THE DIRECTOR: Richard Berry (born Richard Élie Benguigui, 31 July 1950) is a French actor, film director and screenwriter.<br />
He has appeared in nearly 100 films since 1972. He starred in The Violin Player, which was entered into the 1994 Cannes Film<br />
Festival. His film MOI CESAR opened the 2003 FLIFF.
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