Alice and the mayor

The mayor of Lyon, Paul Théraneau, is in a bad way. He has run out of ideas. After thirty years in politics he feels empty. To solve this problem, his team decides to hire a brilliant young philosopher, Alice Heimann. A dialogue between Alice and the mayor unfolds, bringing them together and shaking their certainties.

Fiction

France

2019

French with Arabic subtitles.

105 min

16+

Director: Nicolas Pariser

Producer: Emmanuel Agneray

Cast: Abrice Luchini, Anaïs Demoustier, Nora Hamzai, Léonie Simaga.

Screenwriter: Nicolas Pariser

Cinematography: Sébastien Buchmann

Editing: Christel Dewynter

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Director: Nicolas Pariser

Nicolas Pariser was born in Paris in 1974. After studying law, philosophy, art history and film, he became a film critic for the magazine Sofa in the early 2000s. He then spent four years collaborating with director Pierre Rissient. In 2008, he directed his first short "The Day Ségolène Won" which follows a socialist party activist on the day French President Nicolas Sarkozy was elected. The following year he directed his medium-length political film "The Republic" which won the Jean Vigo Award 2010. Three years later, his short “Agit Pop”, a burlesque comedy about the final hours of a monthly cultural magazine, was selected at Cannes’ International Critics’ Week.

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