Film
dir. Albert Dupontel, 2017, 115 mins
Winner of 5 Cesar Awards, Albert Dupontel’s crime epic is an adaptation from Pierre Lemaître’s Goncourt winning novel, Au revoir là-haut. In November 1918, Edouard Pericourt, a gifted artist, saves the life of Albert Maillard, a humble bookkeeper. The two men have nothing in common apart from their experience of war and their hatred for Lieutenant Pradelle.
The screening will be followed by a Q&A with director Albert Dupontel.
Related / Latest Publication:
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Pierre Lemaître, The Great Swindle, translated by Frank Wynne (MacLehose Press, November 2016) |