Looking for Hortense

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2012, Movie, 1h 40min

Damien is a professor of Chinese civilization who lives with his wife, Iva, a theater director, and their son Noé. Their love is mired in a mountain of routine and disenchantment. To help keep Zorica from getting deported, Iva gets Damien to promise he’ll go to his father, a state department official, for help. But Damien and his father have a distant and cool relationship. And this mission is a risky business which will send Damien spiraling downward and over the edge...

Country: France

Director:

Pascal Bonitzer

Cast:

Kristin Scott Thomas,

Claude Rich,

Isabelle Carré,

Jackie Berroyer

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6.1

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Critic David Parkinson

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...an astute social satire that uses the break-up of a bourgeois marriage to assess France's position in an ever-changing world.

Read full review at Empire

Critic Xan Brooks

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...the performances are tart and tannic, ensuring the film goes out with a graceful dying fall.

Read full review at The Guardian

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Looking for Hortense is a poignant and heartwarming comedy-drama that explores the complexities of family relationships, love, and loyalty. Damien (Jean-Pierre Bacri), a professor of Chinese civilization, lives with his wife Iva (Kristin Scott Thomas), a successful theater director, and their son Noé. However, their relationship has become stale and predictable. When Iva asks Damien to help her friend Zorica, a young woman from the Balkans who is facing deportation, he is forced to confront his own demons and seek help from his estranged father, a powerful member of the judicial Council of State. As Damien navigates this challenging situation, he finds himself caught in a web of family secrets, old wounds, and newfound passions. Will he be able to find a way to save Zorica and rekindle the love in his life?

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