The Untouchable

L'intouchable

France

2006

82 Min

Color

French, English

Currently 2.7/5 Stars.
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CAST Isild Le Besco, Bérangère Bonvoisin, Marc Barbé, Manuel Munz, Louis-Do de Lencquesaing, Jérémie Elkaïm, Parikshit Luthra, Susheel Kumar Batra, Rakesh Sharma, Neetu Jhanjhi, Smita Nair

ED Luc Barnier, Marion Monnier

MUSIC Vijay Jaiswal, Monu Rao

Venice (Competition): Marcello Mastroianni Award, Toronto (Masters), Rotterdam

Synopsis

On her birthday, Jeanne, an actress, learns from her mother that her father is Indian, a Hindu she met on her travels. An “Untouchable”, her mother says. Intending to find her father, Jeanne sets out on her own for the vastness of India with little more than a name as a clue. In the hope that she will find what she is looking for, she immerses herself into the jumble and life of a continent that is totally foreign to her. Eventually, she befriends a young man who acts as a guide, assisting her and introducing her to the mysteries of India. As Jeanne comes nearer to her goal, we wonder what she will find at the end of her quest: her father or something more elusive, more enriching. An Official Selection in the Venice International Film Festival and the Toronto International Film Festival, 2006. –strandreleasing

Director

Benoît Jacquot

Benoît Jacquot was born in Paris in 1947. He was the assistant to various directors before making his first film, L’Assassin Musicien in 1975. Fifteen films followed, such as Les enfants du placard, Les ailes de la colombe, La Ddsenchantée, La fille seule_, Le septième ciel, Pas de scandale, Sade, Tosca and Adolphe. He has worked with, among others, actors like Isabelle Huppert, Isabelle Adjani, Virginie Ledoyen, Fabrice Luchini and Daniel Auteuil. L’école de la chair was selected in Competition at the Cannes Film Festival in 1998 and A tout de suite in the Un Certain Regard section in 2004. He has also directed numerous documentaries and features for television, such as Princesse Marie in 2003 with Catherine Deneuve. In the fall of 2004 he directed Werther by Massenet at the Royal Opera in London"s Covent Garden. He is finishing a screenplay based on a novel by Moravia and is preparing… read more