English title
LOOKING FOR HORTENSE


A wife pressures her husband to solicit work papers from his civil servant father.
Original title CHERCHEZ HORTENSE
Director Pascal Bonitzer
COUNTRY France
Sales Agent SBS Productions
Genre Comedy
Year 2012
Delivery status Completed
Date of availability Autumn 2012
Technical Information
Language French
Duration 100
Color or B&W Color
Image ratio 2.35
Sound format SR-SRD + 5.1 uncompressed
Credits
Script Agnès de Sacy, Pascal Bonitzer
Producer Saïd Ben Saïd
Production Companies SBS Productions
Distributors Le Pacte
Cast Jean-Pierre Bacri, Kristin Scott Thomas, Isabelle Carré
Synopsis
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…
Cast
Jean-Pierre Bacri
Kristin Scott Thomas
Isabelle Carré
Marin Orcand Tourrès
Claude Rich
Arthur Igual
Jackie Berroyer
Jérôme Beaujour
Masahiro Kashiwagi
Awards & Festivals
Cesar Award Nomination for Best Actor (Jean-Pierre Bacri) in 2013
Cesar Award Nomination for Best Supporting Actor (Claude Rich) in 2013







Press Quotes
«Pascal Bonitzer’s new movie(…) gathers qualities which are sometimes rare in French cinema. »
La Croix
Unclassifiable ( …) the tragic humor of the movie owe to Bacri’s great performance, hilarious and touching ( …). Lovely face to face with Claude Rich portraying the father.
L'Express