Out in London from 4th June 2010

Téchiné, one of the most important post-New Wave directors, returns to the screen with a powerful interpretation of a true story that shocked the French consciousness. In 2004, a young woman claimed she had been attacked by a group of anti-semitic youths on the R.E.R. The story got widely reported as anti-Jewish violence was growing in France. Soon, the invented story began to fall apart and the woman who was not Jewish had to admit the story was a fabrication.

The woman did not give any other excuses or reason for her act that she wanted to 'exist more' in the eyes of the two people that counted most for her - her mother and her boyfriend.

Synoposis

Jeanne (Emilie Dequenne) is a free spirited rollerblading Parisian young woman living at home with her widowed mother (Catherine Deneuve). Half-heartedly looking for a job she goes for an interview with her mother's old flame, Samuel Bleiston (Michel Blanc), now a world famous Jewish lawyer. Turned down because of secretarial inexperience, the interview sets in motion a turn of events that grow into a huge political, and national news story, having ramifications for all involved. As Jeanne decides to escape her mother's comfortable nest and sets up home with a new found love Franck (Nicolas Duchauvelle), an aspiring wrestler, she soon finds herself in more trouble. Alongside the film's political agenda, the film is fuelled by a fast-burning romance.
 

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