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Holy Lola

Holy Lola

cast: Isabelle Carré, Jacques Gamblin, Bruno Putzulu

year: 2004

colour: yes

certificate:

director: Bertrand Tavernier

runtime: 125

Full of vitality and humanity, Bertrand Tavernier’s new film deals with the total and visceral desire to have a child. Pierre (Jacques Gamblin) and Géraldine (Isabelle Carré) cannot have children of their own. Determined to adopt, they travel to south-east Asia, where they confront emotional and physical obstacles as they face French and Cambodian authorities, corruption and child trafficking in their quest to adopt a baby. Tavernier collaborates again on this script with his daughter Tiffany and son-in-law Dominique Sampiero, both novelists who worked with him on It All Starts Today about the teaching profession. The director treads the tightrope successfully between a documentary style and fiction in a film that exudes intense waves of emotion and fragility. Tavernier (the subject of the Renault French Film Festival’s retrospective – Page 40) treads the tightrope successfully between a documentary style and fiction in a film that exudes intense waves of emotion and fragility.

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