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The Conquest

La conquête

France

2011

110 Min
Color
2.35:1
French
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DIR Xavier Durringer

PROD Eric Altmeyer, Nicolas Altmeyer

SCR Patrick Rotman, Xavier Durringer

DP Gilles Porte

CAST Denis Podalydès, Bernard Le Coq, Florence Pernel, Hippolyte Girardot, Grégory Fitoussi, Saïda Jawad, Dominique Besnehard, Michèle Moretti, Pierre Cassignard, Mathias Mlekuz, Michel Bompoil, Samuel Labarthe

ED Catherine Schwartz

PROD DES Eric Durringer

MUSIC Nicola Piovani

ANIM Laurent Brett

SOUND Guillaume Sciama, François Musy

Cannes (Out of Competition)

Synopsis

The Conquest focuses on French President Nicolas Sarkozy’s rise to power, telling, in flashback, of his “journey, starting in 2002, when then-president Jacques Chirac told him he wouldn’t appoint him prime minister, and how Sarkozy went on to win power but lost his marriage.” _Variety

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30Oct11

I loved the man who played Chirac the most. Brilliant performance!

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12May11

It's not a documentary? Oh! ...Okay I don't want to see this anymore.

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Movie Poster of the Week: The Best of the Rest of Cannes 2011

By Adrian Curry on June 3, 2011

As I’ve mentioned before, movie posters are not much in evidence around the theaters of Cannes. One striking exception though was this

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By David Hudson on May 15, 2011

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Du Sarkozisme

By hubertg​uillaud on March 12, 2012

Le film de Xavier Durringer sur Sarkozy s’avère assez décevant. Parce qu’il n’est finalement, qu’une comédie sarcastique du pouvoir, de ses petites combines, de ses coups de communication, peuplé d’acteurs…  read review

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