ND/NF 2009 Program Overview Amreeka We Live in Public $9.99 Autumn Barking Water Birdwatchers Can Go Through Skin Cold Souls The Cove Every Little Step The Fly Give Me Your Hand Harmony and Me Home Louise-Michel The Maid Mid-August Lunch The Milk of Sorrow Ordinary Boys Paper Soldier Parque vía The Shaft Stay the Same... Treeless Mountain Unmade Beds Teaming Up Ticket Info About Submissions Past ND/NF Festivals

Louise-Michel Series: New Directors/New Films 2009 Director: Gustave de Kervern & Benoît Delépine, Country: France, Release: 2008, Runtime: 90 In the filmlinc blog, Kazu Watanabe writes: "Though the real-real bosses in our lives will continue to exist, Louise and Michel’s anarchistic vengeance...offers a brief catharsis by way of laughs, humanity, and a little blood." Read the whole review>> The day after a group of women industrial workers are assured of their company’s stability, they are blindsided by management’s relocation of the factory. Everything’s gone, including management, and they are left with a pittance in severance pay. As they console one another, their very odd and illiterate colleague Louise (Yolande Moreau) suggests they pool their tiny resources and hire a hit man, the even odder Michel (Bouli Lanners), to take care of business. Part cinema of the absurd, part politically incorrect farce, filmmakers Benoit Delépine and Gustave de Kervern’s comedy creates a bizarre social satire as the two misfits try to find the bosses and a way to do away with them. Darkly twisted, Louise-Michel hits all the right and wrong buttons in digging through to life’s perverse core.

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