The Conquest
2011, Biography, 1h 50m
31 Reviews 500+ RatingsWhat to know
The Conquest commendably dramatizes French President Nicholas Sarkozy's rise to power, with a persuasive ensemble and a politically astute script handsomely compensating for a generic visual presentation. Read critic reviews
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Nicolas Sarkozy
Cécilia Sarkozy
Jacques Chirac
Claude Guéant
Dominique de Villepin
Franck Louvrier
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Critic Reviews for The Conquest
All Critics (31) | Top Critics (22) | Fresh (24) | Rotten (7)
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The Sarkozy story glistens, snakelike.
June 19, 2013 | Full Review… -
The dialogue is punchy, but the film lacks visual personality, and the insights into Sarkozy and France as a whole don't cut very deep.
March 7, 2012 | Full Review… -
"The Conquest" is like a French restaurant that serves small portions of tart appetizers and calls them freedom fries, yet begrudgingly we must salute the gall.
February 24, 2012 | Rating: 2.5/4 | Full Review… -
Sarkozy seems to mean exactly what he says, even when he's lying for his cause, and Podalyds has the skill to demonstrate that.
January 26, 2012 | Rating: 3/4 | Full Review… -
The film is a vehement drama and a fitfully amusing snark fest set to Nicola Piovani's jaunty circus music. It winds up only half-succeeding at both.
January 5, 2012 | Rating: 2/4 | Full Review… -
"The Conquest," a feature about recent French politics, makes me yearn for a similar American treatment of our own scene.
January 5, 2012 | Rating: 3/4 | Full Review…
Audience Reviews for The Conquest
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Jul 24, 2013As Nicholas Sarkozy(Denis Podalydes) wakes up on election day in 2007, it starts out well enough as he wins the vote in New York and Israel. But he is still worrying about the whereabouts of his wife Cecilia(Florence Pernel) and more importantly whether or not she will be voting with him. However, that is nothing compared to five years previously when President Jacques Chirac(Bernard Le Coq), feeling Sarkozy would only lose in a national election due to his conservative politics, chooses Dominique de Villepin(Samuel Labarthe) to be Prime Minister, leaving the Ministry of Interior to Sarkozy. "The Conquest" seeks to dramatize Sarkozy's rise to power by also undermining him by showing that the only way he got elected was in the media's preference of personality over policy. While possibly not wrong, it is a neat trick that the movie never quite pulls off, as it also falls into the same trap by mostly avoiding politics except by mentioning Sarkozy is pro-American.(Which I guess might be the same as being pro-French here in the States, I suppose.) As far as being satire, not much, except for the jaunty soundtrack and one masterful shot that starts with Sarkozy eating alone, before panning to the press who then rush off to cover Villepin on the beach. The only irony comes when Chirac says the socialists will never win an election in France. Who knew? Plus, Podalydes gives one of those performances usually seen on Saturday Night Live where a performer does an impression by picking on a singular personal tic and then hammering it into the bedrock.Walter M Super Reviewer
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