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Skirt day
La journée de la jupe
Director: Jean-Paul Lilienfield
Actors: Isabelle Adjani / Denis Podalydès / Jackie Berroyer
CÉSAR for BEST ACTRESS! - Isabelle Adjani
CÉSAR NOMINATIONS! Original Screenplay
The raw flipside to Cannes Palme d'Or winner "The Class", this gripping
drama marks an astonishing return to the big-screen by Isabelle Adjani
after a five-year absence.
Sonia Bergerac (Adjani) is in over her head, struggling to teach theatre
to unruly high school students in an underprivileged Parisian suburb. The
considerable problems she encounters in adapting to her new workplace
are compounded by her husband's decision to leave her and before long
she is teetering on the edge of a nervous breakdown. When she discovers
a gun in a student's bag - and accidentally fires it - for once she has her
students' full attention. Outside chaos reigns as SWAT teams, hysterical
parents, politicians and the media gather. All of which prompts a few
people to drop their masks...
Adjani throws herself into the central role with utter conviction. SKIRT
DAY (a title referring to her tendency to wear 'provocative' clothing not
approved by school management), is universally relevant and to-thepoint
on the challenges of multiculturalism and sexual politics, but as
importantly, is a ripping, blackly comic ride.
MA15+
88 mins / 2009
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Opening Night Film
Micmacs
Closing Night Film
Gainsbourg : Je t'aime...moi non plus
Blood is thicker than water
Bellamy
Blame It On Mum
Father Of My Children
I'm Glad My Mother Is Alive
LOL
Making Plans For Lena
Ricky
The First Day of the Rest of Your Life
Tomorrow At Dawn
First feature film
Anything For Her
First Snow
In Your Arms
Legal Aid
One For The Road
Queen To Play
The Hedgehog
You'll Miss Me
Comedy
Change Of Plans
Fashion Victim
Incognito
Little Nicolas
Lucky Luke
Neuilly Yo Mama!
OSS 117, Lost In Rio
Please, Please Me!
Love at first sight
Coco Chanel & Igor Stravinsky
Every Jack Has A Jill
Leaving
Mademoiselle Chambon
Regrets
Someone I Loved
Wild Grass
Resistance
Korkoro
No Pasaran
Skirt Day
The Army Of Crime
Welcome
White Material
Kids
The True Story Of Puss'n Boots
Trouble At Timpeltill
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