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Romain Duris

Emma Mackey

Pierre Deladonchamps

Armande Boulanger

Andranic Manet

Alexandre Steiger

Philippe Hérisson

Jérémie Petrus

Jérémy Lopez

Frédéric Merlo

Damien Zanoly

Clémence Boué

Julien Sarazin

Josselin Baillarguet

Michèle Clément

Juliette Blanche

Sophie Fougère

Philippe Richardin

Matthieu Piriou

Stéphane Page

Aurélien Luzeux

Aurélia Frachon

Philippe Saïd

Dominique Pozzetto

Benoît de Gaulejac

Hervé Masquelier

Joseph Rezwin

David Olivier Fischer

Pierre Le Baleur

Martin Bourboulon

Martin Brossollet

Alexandre Desplat

Matias Boucard

Virginie Bruant

Valérie Deseine

Adèle Bruchert

Aurélie Guichard

Marie-France Michel

Stéphane Taillasson

Gilles Boillot

Thierry Delettre

Natalie Carter

Thomas Bidegain

Caroline Bongrand

Tatiana De Rosnay

Alma Bialas

Aurélie Bouchet

Marion Chevance

Agathe Dupuis

Mathilde Josset

Dorothée Soual

Marie-France Thibault

Véronique Nguyen

Gerard Drolon

Dominique Moisan

Frédéric Delrue

Antoine Dore

Jessy Kupperman

Marie de Cenival

Geneviève Lemal

Martin Moszkowicz

Ardavan Safaee

Jérôme Seydoux

Vanessa van Zuylen

Niels Barletta

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Romain Duris turns in a creditable enough performance but otherwise this is a rather lacklustre mix of romance and engineering that veers way too much to the former than the latter. The narrative tries to run the twin threads of his younger years - where he builds a bridge and falls in love with "Adrienne" (Emma Mackey) with a contemporary one that sees him bidding in a competition to design the Parisian entry for the 1889 World Fair. His plan to build a 300m tower wins - it beat the Mètro - but pretty quickly he faces industrial issues, strikes, banking confidence colly-wobbles and to add to his complications, he re-alights on "Adrienne", by now married to the influential "Antoine" (Pierre Deladonchamps). There are a few scenes - especially when they are laying the foundations to the tower and when aligning the metal works, when the engineering elements impress and we get some clue as to his genius. The use of sand, water and sheer brute force to ensure millimetre accuracy is sometimes quite tensely portrayed here. Unfortunately, though, for the most part it's a rather uninspiring melodrama about his turbulent relationship and though it does offer an interesting explanation as to why the tower might look like the letter "A", it all just sinks into a rather mediocre sediment of mush. The production looks good, the costumes and settings are well presented, but the rest of it is unremarkable and I found myself wondering why I thought he wasn't Maximillian Schell and she wasn't Margot Robbie. One for the telly, I'd say.

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Romain Duris

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Armande Boulanger

Andranic Manet

Alexandre Steiger

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Jérémie Petrus

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