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DERNIER JOUR
THE LAST DAY |
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Director:
Rodolphe Marconi
Screenplay:
Rodolphe Marconi
Cast:
Marie: Nicole Garcia
Simon: Gaspard Ulliel
Louise: Mélanie Laurent
Marc: Bruno Todeschini
Running time: 105’
Production: France, 2004
Rating: Not rated
Gauge: DVD (color)
Distributor:
Strand Releasing
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“The
search for identity. This is the recurring theme which
runs through Rodolphe Marconi’s films. In that respect,
his last opus ‘The Last Day’ is, without exaggeration,
the best accomplishment.” Thomas Baurez, Studio
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Simon, a sensitive
young artist, travels to meet his parents at their seaside
home for the Christmas holiday and in the train, he meets
Louise who invites herself over for Christmas. Simon’s
parents, Marie and Jean-Louis, assume Louise is his girlfriend.
The father clearly has no attachment to his son, preferring
his daughter. Simon grows attached to Louise, but she prefers
his best friend, Mathieu. When Marie receives a phone call
from Marc, an ex-lover who also happens to be in the region,
old family stories resurface. Frustrated in her marriage to
Jean-Louis, Marie reconnects with Marc. She soon discovers
that he has not only come to be with her, but also to meet
Simon who, as it turns out, is really his son. Marie learns
that Louise is Marc’s daughter. Marie tells Simon that
Marc, not Jean-Louis, is his father. Marc has already left
town and Louise left with Mathieu. Simon is left alone to
deal with the news, which he is incapable of bearing on his
own.
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