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

FILM SOCIETY SCREENINGS

Tauranga     
Wednesday, 13 May, 6.00pm

​Palmerston North     
Wednesday, 27 May, 6.00pm

Whanganui     
Monday, 22 June, 7.00pm

​Nelson
​Wednesday, 01 July, 6.00pm

Hamilton     
Monday, 13 July, 6.00pm

Queenstown     
Tuesday, 04 August, 8.00pm

Auckland
​Monday, 31 August, 6.15pm

Canterbury     
Monday, 07 September, 7.00pm

Dunedin
​Wednesday, 16 September, 7.30pm

Carterton     
Friday, 25 September, 7.30pm
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​co-operation with the Institut Français and the Embassy of France