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ND/NF 2009
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Amreeka
We Live in Public
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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
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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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