Athens International Film Festival
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Versailles

Paris, the present. Nina, homeless and unemployed is wandering the streets with her 5-year-old son, Enzo. Their footsteps lead them to the forest of Versailles, where Nina will decide, apparently on an impulse, to abandon her son at the hands of a clochard she barely knows. Sparse and economical, Pierre Schoeller’s film is a compelling study of poverty and social disintegration, free of sentimentality and pretentiousness. Versailles was featured in the Un Certain Regard section at Cannes.

 

 

Director - Screenwriter: Pierre Schoeller

Cinematography: Julien Hirsch

Editing: Mathilde Muyard  

Principal Cast: Guillaume Depardieu, Max Baissette de Malglaive, Judith Chemla, Aure Atika

 

 

 

France , Color , French ,113’ 

 



    Publication date: 2008-09-11 11:00:00