December 2, 2006 - Camelot
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Film Begins Promptly at 9:30 AM
“Monsieur
Batignole”
Coachella Valley
Premiere
In the summer of 1942,
Paris butcher and caterer Edmond Batignole (Gérard Jugnot) works
hard and lives with his henpecking wife Micheline (Alexia Portal),
daughter Marguerite (Michele Garcia) and her fiancé Pierre-Jean
Lamour (Jean-Paul Rouve), who admires the Germans. Batignole
inadvertently and unknowingly is partly responsible for the deportation
of his Jewish neighbor’s family, but when their young son Simon (Jules
Sitruk) escapes and appears at his doorstep, he feels compelled to hide
him and help him escape. This heart-warming and bittersweet story
set in war-torn Paris tells the tale of a butcher who becomes an
unlikely hero. Jugnot plays Batignole as an everyman type --
never exactly hateful, never exactly admirable -- a man who is busy
keeping his head down until forced to do otherwise.
Festivals:
New Jersey Jewish Film Festival
San Francisco Jewish Film Festival
San Diego Jewish Film Festival
Cleveland International Film Festival
French Film Festival
Awards:
César Awards France – Most Promising
Actor: Jean-Paul Rouve
“Moving, at times funny, at times sad,
this film comes highly recommended.” Hoopla.nu
“Hero's tale, superbly
told.” Jam!Movies
Writer/Director/Producer/Star: Gérard Jugnot
Comedy/Drama
France
German/French with English subtitles
Run Time: 100 min.
Rating: NR
Official
Website with Trailer
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