The Innocent
Part crime thriller, part romantic comedy, Louis Garrel’s The Innocent shows the dangerous and outlandish lengths two men go to for the women they love. Garrel stars as Abel, an aquarium educator whose mother, Sylvie (Anouk Grinberg), marries one of her drama pupils in the local penitentiary, Michel (Roschdy Zem). Once on parole, Michel attempts to start a legitimate life but soon reverts to his old ways, eventually roping Abel into one of his schemes. Complicating matters is Clémence (Noémie Merlant), Abel’s brazen coworker, who convinces him to take part in the heist. Directing from a screenplay he cowrote (with Tanguy Viel and Naïla Guiguet), Garrel explores the comedic results of playacting’s intrusion into reality, as well as reality’s comedic tendency to transform us into what we never thought we could be.
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INCLUDES
- Meet the Filmmakers, a new interview with director Louis Garrel
- Trailer
INCLUDES
- Meet the Filmmakers, a new interview with director Louis Garrel
- Trailer
Cast
- Roschdy Zem
- Michel
- Anouk Grinberg
- Sylvie
- Noémie Merlant
- Clémence
- Louis Garrel
- Abel
- Jean-Claude Pautot
- Jean-Paul
- Yanisse Kebbab
- Caviar truck driver
Credits
- Director
- Louis Garrel
- Producer
- Anne-Dominique Toussaint
- Screenplay by
- Louis Garrel
- Screenplay by
- Tanguy Viel
- With the collaboration of
- Naïla Guiguet
- Original music by
- Grégoire Hetzel
- Director of photography
- Julien Poupard
- Editor
- Pierre Deschamps
- Production designer
- Jean Rabasse
- Sound
- Laurent Benaïm
- Sound
- Alexis Meynet
- Sound
- Olivier Guillaume
- Costume designer
- Corinne Bruand
- Production manager
- Julien Brun
- Production manager
- Julien Meuterlos
- First assistant director
- Stéphane Manaranche
- Script supervisor
- Anaïs Sergeant
- Casting
- Julie Allione
- Postproduction manager
- Cédric Ettouati
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Trailer for The Innocent
