Le Promeneur du Champ de Mars / The Last Mitterrand (2005 Berlin Film Festival, in person: Robert Guédiguian and team)

Robert Guédiguian: Le Promeneur du Champ de Mars / The Last Mitterrand (FR 2004). Michel Bouquet (Francois Mitterrand), Jalil Lespert (Antoine Moreau). 

Robert Guédiguian at the Berlin Film Festival, 14 Feb 2005.

FR © 2004 Film Oblige and two other companies. D: Robert Guédiguian. SC: Gilles Taurand, Georges-Marc Benamou - based on Benamou's book Le dernier Mitterrand. DP: Renato Berta. Starring Michel Bouquet (Francois Mitterrand), Jalil Lespert (Antoine Moreau). 116 min. Pleasing photochemical look. Released by Pathé with German subtitles. In the presence of Robert Guédiguian and his team. Viewed at Berlinale-Palast, Berlin Film Festival (competition) 14 Feb 2005. A fictional account of a young journalist's series of encounters with the long-term President Mitterrand who knows his days are numbered. It's an essay in self-awareness and self-deception, political and private. Magisterial interpretation by Michel Bouquet as the ageing President.

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