Inguelezi

Inguélézi

France

2004

97 Min

Color

French, English

Currently 2.0/5 Stars.
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PROD Sébastien Labadie, Franck Landron

CAST Marie Payen, Éric Caravaca, Françoise Lebrun, Mar Sodupe, Bernard Blancan, Jean-Michel Portal, Louise Raymond, Derek Taylor, Henri Khouri, Mehmet Arif, Ian Percival

Traumatised by the premature death of her husband, Geneviève rejects the support of her friends and falls into a grieving solitude. Whilst driving home one night, she sees an overturned lorry in flames. Leaving the police to attend to the accident, she returns home, and discovers a young man hiding in the boot of her car. An illegal immigrant…—filmsdefrance.com

Director

François Dupeyron

François Dupeyron (born 1950) is a French film director and screenwriter. He has directed 17 films since 1977. A former IDHEC graduate, François Dupeyron was quickly noticed with a series of short films, particularly La Nuit du Hibou and Lamento, respectively, 1985 César for Best Short Documentary Film and 1988 César for Best Short Fiction Film. After the critically-acclaimed anti-war film Officer’s Ward , screened in competition at the 2001 Cannes Film festival, his adaptation of a novel by Eric-Emmanuel Schmitt, Monsieur Ibrahim, led by the stellar Omar Sharif (2004 César for Best Actor), was nominated for a Golden Globe in the category Best Foreign Film. Dupeyron has worked extensively with actor Gérard Depardieu, from his first feature A Strange Place to Meet (1988), to the fantasy thriller The Machine (1991) and the drama The Bridge (1999), co-directed by Depardieu. Dupeyron has also directed Love Reinvented, a TV series dealing with AIDS, and he co-wrote The Favorite Son with… read more