Looking for Hortense ( Cherchez Hortense )

Looking for Hortense (DVD) (*)

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Original Title: Cherchez Hortense
Language Selections:
English ( Subtitles )
French ( Dolby Digital 5.1 )

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

Running Time:
96 min

Aspect Ratio:
Widescreen (2.35:1)

Special Features:
Interactive Menu
Scene Access

Movie filmed in 2012 and produced in:
France ( France, Benelux )

Directed By:
Pascal Bonitzer

Written By:
Agnès de Sacy
Pascal Bonitzer

Actors:
Jean-Pierre Bacri ..... Damien Hauer
Kristin Scott Thomas ..... Iva Delusi
Isabelle Carré ..... Aurore
Marin Orcand Tourrès ..... Noé Hauer
Claude Rich ..... Sébastien Hauer
Arthur Igual ..... Antoine
Jackie Berroyer ..... Lobatch
Jérôme Beaujour ..... Campuche
Philippe Duclos ..... Henri Hortense
Benoît Jacquot ..... Kevadian
Masahiro Kashiwagi ..... Satoshi - le serveur japonais
Iliana Lolitch ..... Véra - la femme de Marco
Francis Leplay ..... Marco - le frère d'Iva
Joséphine Derenne ..... Blandine Hauer
Agathe Bonitzer ..... Laetitia

Synopsis:

Looking For Hortense is a bittersweet comedie de moeurs that is French in spirit but universal in appeal. Damien (Jean-Pierre Bacri), a Chinese civilization professor, lives with his partner, Iva (Kristin Scott Thomas), a stage director, and their son Noé. The couple's relationship has drifted into routine that has drained it of love. Damien finds himself trapped one day by Iva, who orders him to ask his father, a senior member of the French Council of State, for help in preventing Zorica (Isabelle Carré), a woman Iva knows, from being deported. But Damien and his father don't get on and are barely ever in touch with each other. This dangerous mission throws Damien into a spiral that will turn his life upside down.

Damien is a professor of Chinese civilization. Just now he has a problem: he has promised Iva, his life companion, to ask his father Sébastien, a state councilor, to intervene in favor of Zorica, an illegal alien. In theory, Sébastien Hauer is influential enough to keep Zorica from being expelled from France but the trouble is that he has always despised his son. As for Damien, he hates his old man. It looks as if Zorica is not on track to stay in the country for much longer...

A wife pressures her husband to solicit work papers from his civil servant father.

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