CIFF23 - Grand Expectations

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Release date: 21 September 2023

Running time: 105 minutes

Madeleine (Rebecca Marder) is an ambitious student who travels to Corsica with her boyfriend (Benjamin Lavernhe) to prepare for exams. When an altercation with a stranger on a deserted road escalates into a fatal incident, the couple cover it up and try to move on. Months later, Madeleine takes up a position as a parliamentary assistant to a left-wing MP working on housing reform, but the guilt continues to haunt her, threatening to end her career at any moment. This densely scripted blend of psychological and political thriller soon moves away from the crime to focus on the conflict between the idealistic world Madeleine works in and the dark secret that continues to resurface (there are a couple of Macbeth references), before some ethical and moral twists bring the two together in an extremely satisfying conclusion. Marder is superb as a talented woman who finds herself caught up in situation where she must rely on all her political cunning to save her own skin, whilst still striving for the greater good that she vehemently believes in. “Rebecca Marder lights up Sylvain Desclous’ tense thriller” Cineeuropa Please note: There will be no ads or trailers, so please arrive promptly at the advertised start time. For more information on the Cheltenham International Film Festival, please visit https://cheltfilm.com/

Original title: CIFF23 - Grand Expectations

Cast: Pascal Elso, Marc Barbé, Emmanuelle Bercot, Benjamin Lavernhe, Rebecca Marder

Director: Sylvain Desclous

Production: 2023

Age restrictions: 15

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