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MY WORST NIGHTMARE (Past Film)
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Completed - FRENCH - Comedy

Log Line

Agathe doesn’t realize to what extent her life is going to be turned upside when she takes in Tony, the best friend of her son Adrien. He leads Agathe down a merry path of existential chaos, which just may deliver her from herself...

Previous markets

  • Cannes 2011 (Debut)
Full history

Year of production : 2010

Director(s) : Anne FONTAINE
Writer(s) : Anne FONTAINE, Nicolas MERCIER
Cast : Isabelle HUPPERT, Benoît POELVOORDE, André DUSSOLLIER, Virginie EFIRA

Producer(s) : Philippe CARCASSONNE, Bruno PESERY, Francis BOESPFLUG

Synopsis

She lives with her son and her husband in a
well-to-do apartment opposite
the chic Luxembourg gardens… He lives alone with his son in the
back of a van.
She is the director of a prestigious contemporary art foundation… He
lives off odd jobs and social security benefits.
She graduated after 7 years at university… He almost spent 7 years
behind bars.
She is on familiar terms with the Ministry of Culture and Arts… He is on
familiar terms with each and every alcoholic beverage that happens to
cross his path.
She enjoys intellectual debates… He enjoys casual sex with large bosomed
bedfellows.
They are poles apart… and can’t stand the sight of one another. Besides,
they should never have met, but their children are inseparable…
In the end, they’ll eventually come to understand why…

Production

Country(ies) : FRANCE

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