Beginning - Xavier Giannoli

Original Title: A l'Origine
Director: Xavier Giannoli
Screenwriter: Xavier Giannoli
Nationality : France
Genre : Drama
Premiere :
Runtime : 150 mn
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Festival: 62nd Cannes Film Festival 2009

Synopsis

In France nowadays a little rascal pretends to be the responsible of the construction of a highway. In the first place, he just wants to get some money, but he will be betrayed by his ambition. He will change the life of a whole region, he will hire dozens of workers and will cinically abuse before meeting a lady in the small town next to the highway. She will make him crazy and show him a world he didn't know before her: Feelings. What will he be willing to do in order to save his victims and himself from his lie?

Cast

Gérard Depardieu
François Cluzet
Emmanuelle Devos
Stéphanie Sokolinski
Vincent Rottiers
Roch Leibovici
Brice Fournier  

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