The Trouble with You (French: En liberté !, lit. 'Freely!') is a 2018 French romantic crime comedy film co-written and directed by Pierre Salvadori. It stars Adèle Haenel, Pio Marmaï, Damien Bonnard, Vincent Elbaz and Audrey Tautou.
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| French | En liberté ! |
| Directed by | Pierre Salvadori |
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| Dialogue by | Pierre Salvadori |
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| Cinematography | Julien Poupard |
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| Music by | Camille Bazbaz |
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| Distributed by | Memento Films Distribution |
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Running time | 108 minutes |
| Country | France |
| Language | French |
| Budget | €8 million[1] ($9.2 million) |
| Box office | $6.8 million[2] |
The film premiered in the Directors' Fortnight section of the Cannes Film Festival on 14 May 2018.[3][4] It was released theatrically in France on 31 October 2018 by Memento Films Distribution.[5]
Plot
editYvonne tells her young son every night the adventures of his father Jean, a police officer who died two years before. She is a lieutenant herself, and she prefers being on the field to the desk job she has. During a routine interrogation, she learns that Jean was in fact a corrupt cop, and had got Antoine imprisoned, who had a clean history before, for a hold-up of a jewellery shop. Louis, a colleague who is in love with her, convinces Yvonne to not reveal anything and let Antoine finish his last weeks in jail.
Antoine gets released soon. Yvonne, who is regretful, follows him and observes that after years of imprisonment, he is now mentally disturbed. Antoine finds his wife Agnès, who has been waiting for him. He has strange and sometimes violent reactions - he commits petty theft and beats up several people who attack him at a pub. Yvonne lets him get away at each instance.
After a fight with his wife, he is wandering around on the road, when he decides to jump in the sea. Yvonne who has been following him, jumps to save him. They get back to the city in a stolen car. Yvonne is both stunned and attracted to him, comes home to her son, who is being babysat by Louis. She then flirts with him, to his great surprise.
The next day, Antoine is taken to the police station for having crashed the car. Yvonne, who does not want Antoine to know that she works with the police, sits on a bench with prostitutes, to make it look like she is one of them.
Antoine, thinking that Yvonne is a prostitute, invites her to dinner, but Louis takes Yvonne on a fake suspect chase. Disappointed, Antoine takes the restaurant personnel hostage and burns down the restaurant. Yvonne removes him from the scene and hides him in a disused underground sado-masochist club. Antoine escapes, leaves his wife and handcuffs Yvonne to a bedpost to go rob the jewellery shop that he was supposed to have robbed, thus making him truly guilty and giving a meaning to the imprisonment which destroyed his youth.
Yvonne escapes and meets Antoine in the jewellery shop. She helps him to take the jewels and convinces him to escape to join his wife, while Yvonne gets arrested.
Much later, Yvonne is released from prison and finds Louis, who has taken care of her son during this time.
Cast
edit- Adèle Haenel as Yvonne Santi
- Pio Marmaï as Antoine Parent
- Damien Bonnard as Louis
- Vincent Elbaz as Jean Santi
- Audrey Tautou as Agnès Parent
- Hocine Choutri as Mariton
- Octave Bossuet as Théo Santi
- Jean-Louis Barcelona as the psychopath
- Steve Tran as a client at the jewellery store
Reception
editCritical response
editOn the review aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes, the film holds an approval rating of 77% based on 13 reviews, with an average rating of 6.6/10.[6] The French website AlloCiné gave the film an average rating of 4.3/5, based on 39 reviews.[7]
Accolades
edit| Award | Year | Category | Recipient(s) | Result | Ref(s) |
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| Cannes Film Festival | 2018 | SACD Prize | Pierre Salvadori | Won | |
| Louis Delluc Prize | Best Film | Nominated | |||
| César Awards | 2019 | Best Film | Pierre Salvadori, Philippe Martin and David Thion | Nominated | |
| Best Director | Pierre Salvadori | Nominated | |||
| Best Actor | Pio Marmaï | Nominated | |||
| Best Actress | Adèle Haenel | Nominated | |||
| Best Supporting Actor | Damien Bonnard | Nominated | |||
| Best Supporting Actress | Audrey Tautou | Nominated | |||
| Best Original Screenplay | Pierre Salvadori, Benoît Graffin and Benjamin Charbit | Nominated | |||
| Best Editing | Isabelle Devinck | Nominated | |||
| Best Original Music | Camille Bazbaz | Nominated | |||
| Globe de Cristal Awards | Best Comedy Film | Pierre Salvadori | Nominated | ||
| Best Comedy Actor | Pio Marmaï | Nominated | |||
| Best Comedy Actress | Adèle Haenel | Nominated | |||
| Lumières Awards | Best Director | Pierre Salvadori | Nominated | ||
| Best Screenplay | Pierre Salvadori, Benoît Graffin and Benjamin Charbit | Won | |||
| Best Music | Camille Bazbaz | Nominated | |||
| Miami Film Festival | Knight Marimbas Award | Pierre Salvadori | Nominated |
References
edit- ^ "En liberté ! (2018)". JP Box-Office (in French). Retrieved 31 January 2019.
- ^ "The Trouble with You (2018)". Box Office Mojo (2018). Retrieved 29 May 2024.
- ^ Goodfellow, Melanie (17 April 2018). "Cannes: Directors' Fortnight unveils 2018 line-up". Screen Daily. Archived from the original on 18 April 2018.
- ^ Keslassy, Elsa (17 April 2018). "Cannes: Directors' Fortnight Lineup Boasts Colombia's 'Birds of Passage,' Nicolas Cage in 'Mandy'". Variety.
- ^ "En liberté !" (in French). Memento Distribution. Retrieved 29 May 2024.
- ^ "The Trouble With You". Rotten Tomatoes. Retrieved 29 May 2024.
- ^ "Critiques Presse pour le film En Liberté !". AlloCiné (in French). Retrieved 29 May 2024.
- ^ Hopewell, John (17 May 2018). "Cannes: Gaspar Noe's 'Climax' Wins Directors' Fortnight Top Prize". Variety. Retrieved 6 June 2024.
- ^ Keslassy, Elsa (12 December 2018). "Christophe Honore's 'Sorry Angel' Wins France's Louis Delluc Prize". Variety. Retrieved 6 June 2024.
- ^ "César 2019 : la liste complète des nominations". AlloCiné (in French). 23 January 2019. Retrieved 6 June 2024.
- ^ Meffre, Benjamin (23 February 2019). "Palmarès César 2019 : "Jusqu'à la garde" et Jacques Audiard triomphent, "Le Grand Bain" grand perdant". Puremédias (in French). Retrieved 6 June 2024.
- ^ Henry, Rachel (5 February 2019). "Globes de cristal 2019 : Alexandra Lamy, Gilles Lellouche et Salma Hayek sacrés". Purepeople (in French). Retrieved 6 June 2024.
- ^ Lemercier, Fabien (17 December 2018). "The nominees for the Lumières Awards unveiled". Cineuropa. Retrieved 6 June 2024.
- ^ Vely, Yannick (5 February 2019). "Les Lumières ont célèbré Jacques Audiard, Alex Lutz et Jane Birkin". Paris Match (in French). Retrieved 6 June 2024.
- ^ Emmanuelle (31 January 2019). ""THIS CHANGES EVERYTHING" to Open MDC's 36th Miami Film Festival; Patricia Clarkson to Receive PRECIOUS GEM AWARD; Barry Jenkins, Boots Riley & Aaron Stewart-Ahn Attend for New Program "KNIGHT HEROES"" (Press release). Miami Film Festival. Retrieved 6 June 2024.
- ^ Saval, Malina (10 March 2019). "Miami Film Festival Awards 'Birds of Passage' Top Prize". Variety. Retrieved 6 June 2024.
External links
edit- The Trouble with You at IMDb
- The Trouble with You at AlloCiné (in French)
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