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The French Minister
Directed by
Bertrand Tavernier
Not Rated
2013
1h 53m
[Comedy](/on-demand/category/comedy)
6.4
62%
55%
6.0
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A young speechwriter working in the French Foreign Ministry learns the impure nature of the political world.
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Cast of The French Minister
Thierry Lhermitte
Alexandre Taillard de Vorms
Raphaël Personnaz
Arthur Vlaminck
Niels Arestrup
Claude Maupas
Bruno Raffaelli
Stéphane Cahut
Julie Gayet
Valérie Dumontheil
Anaïs Demoustier
Marina
Thomas Chabrol
Sylvain Marquet
Thierry Frémont
Guillaume Van Effentem
Alix Poisson
Odile
Marie Bunel
Martine
Jean-Marc Roulot
Bertrand Castela
Sonia Rolland
Nathalie
Didier Bezace
Jean-Paul François
Jane Birkin
Molly Hutchinson
Renaud Calvet
L'ambassadeur de France à l'ONU
Benoît Carré
Le « Numéro 2 » de l'ambassade de France
François Perrot
Antoine Taillard
Michel B. Dupérial
L'huissier
Muhammad Hirzalla
Le traducteur
Sylvain Saulet
Le garde du corps de Taillard
The French Minister Ratings & Reviews
Chicago Reader
J. R. Jones
There are enough moments of inspired lunacy to make this worthwhile.
The New Yorker
Anthony Lane
The films of Bertrand Tavernier have often been fringed with humor, of a rueful kind; now, in his seventies, and in a rousing rebuke to tranquillity, he has turned to farce.
RogerEbert.com
Susan Wloszczyna
Maybe the problem is that Tavernier has made a French comedy-but not a very universal one.
New York Times
Manohla Dargis
Mr. Tavernier's filmmaking here is loose, almost casual, and you may not always notice what he's doing with the camera as he frames the ministry's choreographed chaos with its whirling people and parts.
NPR
Mark Jenkins
In the first comedy of a 40-year career that includes A Sunday in the Country and The Princess of Montpensier, director and co-writer Bertrand Tavernier tries to do too much.
Film Journal International
Rex Roberts
Other than Tavernier's odd decision to draw Taillard de Worms with broad strokes, while sketching the remaining ensemble with considerable nuance, The French Minister has one big barrier to audiences who don't speak French: There are too many words.
New York Post
Farran Smith Nehme
It's pleasant, and at times very funny, but the meandering episodes mean that despite the long running time, the satire never builds to a payoff.
Village Voice
Chris Packham
Mannered and often very funny, it's kind of like what an Iannucci production would be if all his characters suffered from the behavioral effects of toxoplasmosis - really, really French, in other words.
The Hollywood Reporter
Todd McCarthy
A snappy, sharp-witted, graphic novel-inspired satire on the doings at the French Foreign Ministry.
Variety
Scott Foundas
It would be easy for Lhermitte to play the fool, but what makes the character so memorable is that, as [the film] progresses, Arthur comes to see that there are hints of canniness lurking beyond the stuffed shirt.
The Dissolve
Mike D'Angelo
[Thierry Lhermitte's] energetic performance is by far the best reason to see the film, which should probably have been directed by somebody else [...]
Slant Magazine
Kenji Fujishima
With its broad performances, rapid-fire pacing, and rampant visual and verbal gags, Bernard Tavernier's first out-and-out comedy doesn't try too hard to hide its graphic-novel origins.
Spirituality & Practice
Mary Ann Brussat
A witty, face-paced and audacious comedy about French diplomacy, politics, and the peculiarities of power.
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