The bonds of a 30-year friendship are tested when Walter's 20-year-old daughter, Clemence, falls in love with his friend Paul.
Acting
Lanvin's wounded-patriarch rage is deliciously uncomfortable
Writing
Dialogue cuts like passive-aggressive dinner party banter
Director
François Prévôt-Leygonie
Gérard Lanvin
Walter Orsini
Jean-Hugues Anglade
Paul, writer
Wladimir Yordanoff
Jacques Boretty
Ana Girardot
Clémence Orsini
Zabou Breitman
Stéphanie
Natacha Lindinger
Béatrice
Jean-Pierre Lorit
Philippe Valette
Jean-François Stévenin
Vincent Brassac
Aladin Reibel
Pierre Burel
Alexia Barlier
Isabelle
François Briault
Laurent
Maud Brethenoux
Léa
Nicolas Herman
Cyrille, sommelier
Michaël Abiteboul
François, head chef
Maud Jurez
Sarah
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
This is peak 'cinéma du milieu' — French films about comfortable bourgeois people becoming slightly less comfortable.
Directors Prévôt-Leygonie and Archinard adapted their own play; the staginess explains why everyone keeps ending up in the same restaurant.
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