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Glorious Acceptance of Nicolas Chauvin (The)

Country: France, Language: French, 26 mins

Original Title

Le discours d'acceptation glorieux de Nicolas Chauvin
  • Director: Benjamin Crotty
  • Producer: Judith Lou Lévy; Eve Robin

CGiii Comment

A mad, inventive imagination let loose...

With a virtuoso performance by Alexis Manenti...be bemused, be befuddled, be bamboozled.

Brilliant.


Trailer...

TRAILER LE DISCOURS D'ACCEPTATION GLORIEUX DE NICOLAS CHAUVIN_SUB_ENG from Les Films du Bal on Vimeo.

The(ir) Blurb...

During his acceptance speech for a lifetime achievement award, Nicolas Chauvin - farmer-soldier, veteran of the Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars, and father of chauvinism - embarks on a grand monologue, sending him back in time and space.

Cast & Characters

Ragnar Arni Agustsson
Antoine Cholet
Caroline Deruas-Garrel
Pauline Jacquard
Alexis Manenti
Rei Yazaki