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Louise-Michel (DVD) (*)

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Screened, competed or awarded at:
San Sebastian International Film Festival
Sundance Film Festival

Language Selections:
English ( Subtitles )
French ( Dolby Digital 5.1 )
French ( Dolby Digital Stereo )

Product Origin/Format:
United Kingdom ( PAL/Region 2 )

Running Time:
90 min

Aspect Ratio:
Anamorphic Widescreen (1.66:1)

Special Features:
Anamorphic Widescreen
Behind the scenes
Deleted Scenes
Interactive Menu
Photo Gallery
Scene Access
Trailer(s)

Movie filmed in 2008 and produced in:
France ( France, Benelux )

Directed By:
Gustave de Kervern
Benoît Delépine

Written By:
Benoît Delépine
Gustave de Kervern

Actors:
Yolande Moreau ..... Louise Ferrand
Bouli Lanners ..... Michel Pinchon
Benoît Poelvoorde ..... Guy l'ingénieur
Albert Dupontel ..... Miro
Joseph Dahan ..... L'employé des pompes funèbres
Mathieu Kassovitz ..... Le propriétaire de la ferme
Agnès Aubé ..... La veuve
Kafka ..... Flambart, le sous-directeur
Hervé Desinge ..... Le directeur de l'usine en Picardie
Fabienne Berne ..... La secrétaire
Terence Debarle ..... Terence
Yannick Jaulin ..... L'employé de banque
Jacqueline Knuysen ..... Jackie
Sylvie Van Hiel ..... Sylvie, la déléguée syndicale
Pierrette Broodthaers ..... Pierrette

Synopsis:

Absurdist French filmmakers Benoit Delepine and Gustave Kervern's follow up to 2004's Aaltra, Louise-Michel is a jet black comedy in which the recently-fired female employees of a children's clothing factory, led by ex-con Louise (Yolande Moreau, Mammuth), pool their funds together to put a 'hit' on their callous boss. But while security specialist Michel seems like the perfect candidate to carry out the hit, his ineptitude is so great that he attempts to sub-contract the job to a series of inexperienced - and highly inappropriate - assassins, with outrageous, and unexpected, results.

What to do when the workers of a factory have been laid off overnight? Louise has an original idea: why not pool the compensation money to ... hire a hit man and to liquidate the boss? Motion accepted so Louise goes in search of the gem they need and unfortunately comes across Michel, a stinky security specialist. Michel, who is busted, gladly accepts the deal but proves so inept that he sub-contracts the job to improbable novices. Moreover, as the factory was a mere branch of a multinational company, it is no bed of roses to find the one who actually made the decision to outsource its activities. But Louise will not give up so easily.

The owner of a coat hanger factory somewhere in the French Picardy empties it in the middle of the night. The next morning, the female factory workers arrive to discover that everything has been cleared out and that the management has embraced the notion of outsourcing their jobs. In response, the women decide to pool their low wages towards a common project: hiring a professional to kill their boss.

This product was added to our catalog on Saturday 13 August, 2011.