'The exercise of power' by Pierre Schoeller, starring Olivier Gourmet.
'The exercise of power (L'exercice de l'État), directed and written by Pierre Schoeller, is a production shot between France and Belgium, whose cast is headed by: Olivier Gourmet (Bertrand Saint-Jean), Michel Blanc (Gilles), Zabou Breitman (Pauline), Laurent Stocker (Yan) and Sylvain Deblé (Martin), among others.
In 'The exercise of power', the Minister of Transport, Bertrand Saint-Jean, is awakened in the middle of the night by his personal secretary. A bus has fallen down a ravine. He's heading there, you have no choice. so it begins the odyssey of a statesman in an increasingly complex and hostile world. Speed, power struggles, chaos, economic crisis ... Everything is chained and collides. One emergency follows another. What sacrifices are men ready to accept? How long will they last in a state that devours those who serve it?
Schoeller gives a new twist to the cinema that portrays the lives of politicians. On this occasion, it manages to surprise and enthuse us with the new angle from which its protagonist, the Minister of Transport, Bertrand Saint-Jean, is shown. The minister, largely embodied by Olivier Gourmet ("Home, sweet home?"), he is a man of good will, a fighter to whom everything happens ... And that is, at least funny, especially in a society, like ours, which has less and less sympathy with its politicians, and not without reason.
A new proposal from French cinema that we will probably forget easily and that will not become the film of the year, but in addition to entertaining us, It will make us go out a little less angry with humanity and especially with politicians... Entertaining.
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