Président

A film about the cruel price of politics. Love story as axis. And the lies, compromises and abdications, errors and indirect crimes like modus vivendi. About power and fear only facts talks. The president may be French, Romanian or Somalian. The differences are small. The mixture of past and future is in any situation dangerous. And reality is only way of small combination. The movie is not indictment or manifesto. It is indigestible food. Precise and result of old recipes. With great actors and gray air. With final open shade. A movie as a ax kick. Lead of gestures, gnashing of feelings. Secrets as heats of a British ceremony. And the end. As evening rain.

I'm French, I saw this one before its release in theaters in France. It is really, really very good. It gives a very good flavor of the politics world, uses and customs, men, women, and so on. You see how people handle power, how power ends up controlling them. At no moment it is a "left wing" or a "right wing" movie, but it really focuses on the human dimension of the people. It uses many historical details from former 5th republic presidents, such as Miterrand (left), Giscard (right), Chirac (current one, right), De Gaulle (right/center). Dupontel is really amazing considering the all different types of roles he can fit in. In Bernie, in Monique, in this one, he plays 3 totally different persons, but always very accurately and well. To sum up, this is worth seeing. The girl (president's daughter is really cute, though she is not the best actor in the movie). The dude (Mathieu) is doomed to be loved by girls, and it's true that he is nearly perfect.