30/5 — 5/6/2024
64th International Film Festival
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Section: Panorama

Mum's Wrong (2016) 13

France | 2016 | 92 min.

Anouk, a fourteen-year-old ninth grader, has to spend a week's work experience as part of her school curriculum. As she cannot get an internship at the TV channel she wanted to go to, her single mother Cyrielle decides to enroll her at the insurance company where she works as a junior executive. Bad pick, because Anouk is not only given nothing more exciting to do than to "re-organize a storage closet", but she also discovers some nasty secrets the Serenita company keeps hidden. Nasty secrets her mother might have something to do with...

CountryFrance
Year2016
Duration92 min
Rating13
LanguageFrench
SubtitleEnglish, Czech
Directed by Marc Fitoussi
Screenplay Marc Fitoussi
Director of Photography Laurent Brunet
Edited by Damien Keyeux
Contact Kinology

Biography

A French director and screenwriter, he studied English and art history. He also attended the European Conservatory of Screenwriting. After some short films, he directed his successful feature debut The Life of an Artist (La Vie d'artiste, 2007) followed by Copacabana (2010) and Paris Follies (La ritournelle, 2014).

Family, Growing Up, Friendship, Positive Choices, Teamwork, Empathy, Relationships