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Title: Jusqu'à la garde (2017)
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| Léa Drucker | ... | Miriam Besson | |
| Denis Ménochet | ... | Antoine Besson | |
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Thomas Gioria | ... | Julien Besson |
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Mathilde Auneveux | ... | Joséphine Besson |
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Mathieu Saikaly | ... | Samuel |
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Florence Janas | ... | Sylvia |
| Saadia Bentaïeb | ... | La juge | |
| Coralie Russier | ... | La greffière | |
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Sophie Pincemaille | ... | Maître Davigny |
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Emilie Incerti-Formentini | ... | Maître Ghenen |
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Jérome Care-Aulanier | ... | Agent opérateur Police Secours |
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Jenny Bellay | ... | La voisine |
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Martine Vandeville | ... | Madeleine, la mère d'Antoine |
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Jean-Marie Winling | ... | Joël, le père d'Antoine |
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Martine Schambacher | ... | Nanny, la mère de Miriam |
Antoine Besson, Miriam's divorced husband, is a nice man. In charge of security in a hospital, he is esteemed both by his superiors and his fellow colleagues. Moreover he is a good father who, willing to be closer to his eleven-year-old son Julien, has chosen to be transferred to the town where the boy lives with his mother and his older sister Joséphine, soon to be of age. That is the very reason why Antoine, the caring father, is asking for joint custody of Julien. Well, all that would be fine provided Antoine actually was the man he claims to be. The trouble is that his wife and his two children see him in a very different light. For in the past, Antoine was far from an angel. On the contrary, he had a knack for creating an atmosphere of permanent fear at home, going as far as to occasionally beat his wife under his children's eyes. And he got away with it all the more easily as Miriam, wishing to avoid even more problems, never lodged a complaint against him - a fact that ... Written by Guy Bellinger
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The French writer/director Xavier Legrand was nominated for the Oscar for Best Live Action Short for 2014 with his film "Just Before Losing Everything". This film was about a mother and her children who are fleeing a violent and abusive husband and it sure packed an emotional wallop. Amazingly, Legrand is back with the same family and a full-length follow up to the previous film and it's even better! A reason to watch this is because the most intense, heart- wrenching and well directed 15 minutes make up the final portion of the film and I could hear folks crying, gasping and calling out as well!!
The film begins with a custody hearing. The judge is listening to the evidence and it's difficult to really know what's going on with the family. Is the father an abusive monster who doesn't deserve to have custody of his 11 year-old son? Or, is the child right when he says he never wishes to have contact with the man again and he's afraid of the man? Regardless, the judge decides to award joint custody to the father and mother. Inexplicably, the visits with the possibly violent father are unsupervised and the audience has no idea what's going to happen next. Needless to say really bad things are going to happen and soon!
The first half of this movie is good but not amazing. It's all important as set up for the final portion and I cannot say enough about how well all this comes together at the end. Not a film for the faint of heart, but a blood-pumping, Adrenalin-inducing masterful film that could easily be a strong candidate for the Best Foreign Language Oscar. If it's not at least nominated, I'd be very surprised.