Damien, a professor of Chinese Civilisation, is forced by his wife to ask his father a favour. As a senior civil servant, he could help a woman get residency papers. The request is a true horror for Damien, who hates to ask his father anything. But he doesn’t reveal this to his wife. She is very busy as stage director and with a male colleague, on whom she focuses a suspicious amount of attention. In the meantime, Damien meets a young woman who shares his interests and is fascinated by his life.
Plenty of starting points for a comic drama of relationships, which director and scriptwriter Bonitzer situates in the Parisian intellectual elite. The most important themes are identity and the quest for self-confidence: you don’t just get that, it has to be earned. Despite such serious themes as dysfunctional families and stalling relationships, Bonitzer keeps the tone pleasantly light.
- Director
- Pascal Bonitzer
- Country of production
- France
- Year
- 2012
- Festival Edition
- IFFR 2013
- Length
- 100'
- Medium
- DCP
- Language
- French
- Producer
- Saïd Ben Saïd
- Production Company
- SBS Productions
- Sales
- SBS Productions
- Screenplay
- Pascal Bonitzer, Agnès de Sacy
- Cinematography
- Romain Winding
- Editor
- Elise Fievet
- Production Design
- Emmanuel de Chauvigny
- Sound Design
- Philippe Richard
- Music
- Aleksei Aigi
- Cast
- Jean-Pierre Bacri, Kristin Scott Thomas
- Local Distributor
- De Filmfreak
- Website
- http://sbs-distribution.fr/international-sales-looking-for-hortense