Welcome to the Beauvilliers estate… After seducing over a million readers, the bestseller Complètement Cramé! It comes to life on the big screen this fall. French writer Gilles Legardinier is stepping behind the camera for the first time to adapt his novel for film. Directed by John Malkovich and Fanny Ardant, this poetic comedy hits theaters on November 1, 2023.
After losing his wife, Andrew Blake has no heart left. A final impulse prompts him to leave London and return to France, to the property where he met.
This trip to remember the happy days doesn’t quite go as planned… To stay at the Beauvilliers estate, Blake feels guilty enough to judge the butler’s game.
Enter Madame Beauvilliers, the mistress of the house, with a demeanor as strange as her relations, Odile, a strong-tempered cook, Philippe, a somewhat bewildered guardian who lives like a hermit at the end of the park, and Manon, a young cleaner. A lady whose fortunes change, Blake discovers people just as lost as she is.
In front of them, in this special place, this person who expected nothing from life will be forced to start all over again…
On screen, John Malkovich, the most Francophile of English-speakers, and Fanny Ardan are joined by Philippe Bass (The Profile), Emile Deken (Les Choses qu’on dit, les Choses qu’on fait) and Eugene Anselin (Deux) in a colorful gallery of characters who bring to life This story is funny and disturbing at the same time.
“A book and a movie are two different ways to get to the same place: inside ourselves, where the truest part of us lives.”Gilles Legardinier emphasizes. The author also wrote the script for the film in collaboration with producer Christel Hannon, for whom this is the first time.
Discover completely burnt! In theaters on November 1, 2023.
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