| 2023 – 100′ – Dark Comedy
Written by: Alain Guiraudie, Laurent Lunetta.
Directed by: Alain Guiraudie.
Starring: Jean-Charles Clichet, Noémie Lvovsky, Iliès Kadri, Michel Masiero, Doria Tillier, Renaud Rutten, Farida Rahouadj .
Official Selection Berlin International Film Festival 2022 (Panorama Opening Film).
Official Competition TAFFF 2022.
In French with English subtitles.
A Strand Releasing release. |Director Alain Guiraudie takes on questions of race, class, sex and Islamophobia in this dark social satire about a schlubby unemployed computer geek named Médéric who falls hard for a married middle-aged sex worker named Isadora.  However, Médéric doesn’t believe in prostitution and refuses to pay for sex. (Which doesn’t mean there isn’t a lot of it in this film!) As if that weren’t enough to keep him occupied, he’s soon confronted by Selim, a homeless North African young man who’s looking for a place to crash. Despite the fact that Selim resembles a terrorist-at-large, Médéric takes him in. Simultaneously paranoid, compliant, wracked with white guilt and in love, Médéric has a lot going on. As does Guiraudie, who straddles his usual genres of absurdist dramedy and social commentary, depicting what life can be like in modern-day France, where terrorist attacks can be devastating, yet somehow feel like everyday occurrences.

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