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Age of Panic
La bataille de Solférino​

Justine Triet  •   France  • ​  2013
94 mins  •  HD  •  tbc
In French with English subtitles


With political protests roiling the streets of Paris, a young mother tries to keep it together on the home front. Justine Triet’s first feature mixes comedy with documentary-style energy.
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​“Funny, intense and alive” – Cahiers du Cinéma
DIRECTOR: Justine Triet
PRODUCER: Emmanuel Chaumet

PRODUCTION CO: Ecce Films
SCREENPLAY: Justine Triet
PHOTOGRAPHY: Tom Harari

EDITOR: Damien Maestraggi
WITH: Laetitia Dosch (Laetitia), Vincent Macaigne (Vincent), Arthur Harari (Arthur), Virgil Vernier (Virgil), Marc-Antoine Vaugeois (Marc), Jeane Ara-Bellanger (Jeane) 

​FESTIVALS: Cannes

REVIEWS

“The tumultuous, hotly contested 2012 French presidential election, pitting right-winger Nicolas Sarkozy against socialist Francois Hollande, provides the larger maelstrom against which a couple’s custody battle unfolds in French writer-director Justine Triet’s frantic farce Age of Panic. The exes’ skill at sweeping lovers, friends, colleagues, babysitters and total strangers into their emotional vortex adds greatly to the absurdity wending its way through the streets, packed to bursting with masses of warring party enthusiasts. Placing a couple’s inability to mediate visiting rights within the context of extreme political polarization, this whirlwind comedy might prove particularly timely…

Triet brilliantly orchestrates the intersection of documentary and fiction. If reality fails to furnish the kind of drama that made Haskell Wexler’s Medium Cool such a benchmark, the spontaneous ebb and flow of the enormous French crowds seen here syncs visually and rhythmically with the film’s domestic Sturm und Drang, acted throughout with improvisatory immediacy.”

– Ronnie Schieb, Variety


“Blending fiction and documentary in a daringly original framework… Age of Panic stands as one of the exemplary works of modern French cinema, a landmark of what a daringly original filmmaker can do when working in a system of her own.”

– Richard Brody, New Yorker




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