Winner – Critics Week Grand Prize – Cannes 2006
The engaging new drama from Emmanuel Bourdieu is a thoroughly enticing tale of ambition, romance and fabulous deceit, centred on a group of male university students.
On their first day of class in a graduate literary program at the Sorbonne, Eloi, Edouard and Alexandre meet André: good-looking, well connected, impossibly brilliant and instantly singled out by students and faculty alike as a star. Soon André is dominating their every move, telling them how to think and what they should do with their lives. But then, one day André is gone, said to be off doing research at an American university.
For his second film, Emmanuel Bourdieu (co-screenwriter on Arnaud Desplechin’s My Sex Life) offers a deft, fascinating journey into a world in which the life of the mind is a perpetual emotional joust. With André, brilliantly played by newcomer Thibault Vinçon, Bourdieu has created a revealing portrait of an academic vampire who sucks the life out of everyone in his way.
France 2006 - Drama (100 mins)
In French with English Subtitles
Script: Emmanuel Bourdieu, Marcia Romano
Director: Emmanuel Bourdieu
Cast: Malik Zidi, Thibault Vinçon,
Alexandre Steiger, Dominique Blanc