When a family wins a contest to adopt Victor, an 85-year-old man, the magazine intern who hatched the idea must undo what has been done.
Acting
Pierre Richard's deadpan misery is magnificent.
Writing
Biting satire of media stunts and human commodification.
Director
Thomas Gilou
Pierre Richard
Victor
Lambert Wilson
Courcelle
Clémentine Célarié
Sylvie Saillard
Antoine Duléry
Guillaume Saillard
Sara Forestier
Alice
Mohamed Hicham
Paco
Marie-France Mignal
La mère de Sylvie
Jacqueline Corado
Hyacintha
Manon Chevallier
Marguerite Saillard
Ludovic Berthillot
L'homme du métro
Lilou Fogli
L'hôtesse
Sophie Mounicot
Lydia
Caroline Bourg
La comptable
Marianne Borgo
La comtesse yacht
Jean-François Gallotte
Noyeux
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Pierre Richard was 75 during filming, making his cranky octogenarian performance a preview of his own future.
The film satirizes France's actual 2000s reality TV boom, where human suffering became scheduled programming.
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