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The Innocent

Louis Garrel

Roschdy Zem

Noémie Merlant

Anouk Grinberg

Jean-Claude Pautot

Yanisse Kebbab

Léa Wiazemsky

Manda Touré

Olga Amelchenko

Romain Blachier

Zorah Ait Maten

Jean-Claude Bolle-Reddat

Joséphine Caraballo

Véronique Kapoyan

Florent Masarin

Franck Gonzales

Jean-Mickaël Bricard

Sylvain Longo

René Palomba

Pascal Sighrouchni

Laëtitia Clément

Thomas Rortais

Côme Thieulin

Mattéo Rozier

Zeyaelddin Seyed Saleh

Shahriar Sadrolashrafi

Mikael Foisset

Rachid Leghrib

Julien Poupard

Pierre Deschamps

Jean Rabasse

Corinne Bruand

Étienne Landrieux

Mylène Chiarisoli

Zoé Carré

Jeanne Frentzel

Clément Brunet

Alexandre Thimonier

Faustina De Sousa

Julien Brun

Juliette Daugé

Olivier Guillaume

Alexandre Chapelard

Indy Adjovi

Anna Prat

Pearl Hort

Milan Evrard

Grégory Vincent

Laura Caselli

Jeremy Vessigot

Celia Longcourty

Matthis Goldfain

Julien Franquet

Anaïs Sergeant

My Lan Nguyen Quang

Valérie Vernier Ricordeau

Nicolas Pautrel

Yov Moor

Laurent Benaïm

Julien Gallois

Cyrille Hubert

Mélissandre Carrasco

Laura Perrotto

Tanguy Viel

Anne-Dominique Toussaint

Grégoire Hetzel

Sully Ledermann

Naïla Guiguet

Stéphane Manaranche

Julie Allione

Olivier Père

Jorge García Bastidas

Alexis Meynet

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I like Louis Garrel - he has something about him that I usually find engaging to watch on screen. Here, though, the story is all just a little too far-fetched! He ("Abel") takes his mother "Sylvie" (Anouk Grinberg) to prison where she runs an acting class and where she has hooked up with "Michel" (Roschdy Zem). Now "Abel" is a bit sceptical about his mother marrying an ex-con and soon he and his best mate "Clémence" (Noémie Merlant) and carrying out some fairly clumsy surveillance on the man. "Michel" is no fool though and before we know it, the spying pair are mixed up a plan to pinch a great supply of caviar from a van in a petrol station car park! What ensues here does raise the odd smile and is generally an adequate little drama - but it still tends a little too much to weak slapstick inso far as it's a comedy. It's also a love story and a family drama that is better than soap, but only just - it's like we are watching an incomplete episode in the lives of people that we don't really know - nor get to know, either. Merlant is a breath of fresh air and she gels well with her increasingly hapless pal "Abel" as we head to a denouement with a few twists to keep us guessing. I did quite enjoy it, but it's totally forgettable fayre, sorry.

The Innocent writer-director Louis Garrel | BFI Q&A

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Louis Garrel

Roschdy Zem

Noémie Merlant

Anouk Grinberg

Jean-Claude Pautot

Yanisse Kebbab

Léa Wiazemsky

Manda Touré

Olga Amelchenko

Romain Blachier

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