In full performance, in front of a dumbfounded audience, an actor from the Comédie-Française dies by poisoning.
An embarrassing situation for Martin (Vincent Lacoste), member of the troupe and direct witness to this assassination.
He is indeed suspected by the police at the same time as he is pursued by the mysterious organization which ordered the murder and which now wishes to silence him.
With the help of a comic book artist, Claire (Sandrine Kiberlain), Martin will seek to elucidate this mystery during a very eventful trip to Europe, and try to save his skin.
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Between comedy and thriller, this feature film with the false air of
murder mystery
makes many nods to Alfred Hitchcock's films, Agatha Christie novels and Tintin albums.
Varied references that accentuate a resolutely absurd tone.
Vincent Lacoste and Sandrine Kiberlain form a delicious duo, which excels in the art of sarcasm and out of phase replies.
Le Parfum vert
is Nicolas Pariser's third feature-length fiction film (
Alice and the Mayor
,
In Therapy
, etc.).
Presented this year at Cannes at the close of the Directors' Fortnight, this lunar spy film also brings together Rüdiger Vogler, Léonie Simaga and Jenna Thiam in the cast.
In video, trailer:
Le Lycéen
by Christophe Honoré, with Juliette Binoche and Vincent Lacoste
