L'exercice De L'etat (2011)
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A career politician walks a tightrope between ethics and ambition in this drama from filmmaker Pierre Schoeller. Bertrand Saint-Jean (Oliver Gourmet) is the French Minister of Transportation, a man who entered his career in public service as an idealist intending to use his position to help others and serve the people with honor. Years later, Saint-Jean has come to view politics as a matter of image and gamesmanship, and while he strives to rise above the more corrupt aspects of his profession,
Cast
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Olivier Gourmet
Bertrand Saint-Jean -
Michel Blanc
Gilles -
Zabou Breitman
Pauline -
Laurent Stocker
Yan -
Sylvain Deble
Martin Kuypers -
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Dry as a cabernet sauvignon
Saint-Jean may be able to laugh off a woman's rage at the government's ineptitude and apparent cluelessness, but that's not so easy for the rest of us.
Audience Reviews for L'exercice De L'etat
But make no mistake - this movie is no panda, an alligator would be more appropriate, and that's exactly what you see when the movie starts. You wonder why, but this film does not offer easy answers. You must go on and find them yourself, and this is what most delighted me.
Watching this film made me feel like an outside, after all, it's about politics. But the more in doubt, the more excited I was. And it made more and more sense when I started thinking about the recent carnage for power in the American presidential campaign, the economic and political warzone in the European Union. This film is a rare opportunity to peep in behind the doors of political exercise nowadays.
However, it is more than a lesson. Olivier Gourmet is formidable and you know he achieved something big. Politicians don't enjoy any popularity nowadays, but his minister is still fascinating even after causing a casualty that is cruelly exposed to our eyes. And despite his survival-of-the-fittest manner, you may approve some of his principles in the end.
L'execise de L'etat is indeed a rare film. It did not make me laugh, it did not make me cry, it just made me think, which is a great achievement in movies nowadays, unfortunately.
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Foreign Titles
- Der Aufsteiger (DE)
- The Minister (L'exercice de l'Etat) (UK)
