Drone
- Director: Simon Bouisson
- Writer: Simon Bouisson, Fanny Burdino, Samuel Doux, Gilles Marchand
- Producer: Caroline Benjo, Carole Scotta
CGiii Comment
Émilie lives in a world of surveillance: her camgirl work; the camera phone lingering on a crush from afar; the headset affording her a drone’s perspective. The same drone that stalks each move she makes, offering inspiration, noting rivals. An unsolicited companion conspiring with or against her. A financially strapped transplant now living in the Paris suburbs, Émilie (ballerina Marion Barbeau) is thrust into a high-powered world when she is chosen for a renovation workshop with a prestigious architect (Cédric Kahn). Her classmates come mostly from “filthy rich” backgrounds, like cocky Olivier (Stefan Crepon), who wants Émilie as his conquest. But Émilie has shy eyes only for self-sufficient Mina (Eugénie Derouand), whose music builds like a “helicoid.” All along, a drone—unlike any known model—is watching her. Waiting for her next move and paying handily for the privilege. Taking the “killer’s point of view” made famous by films like Psycho and Friday the 13th to new heights, visionary director Simon Bouisson’s kinetic debut feature is a morality puzzle wrapped in a cutting-edge, goosebump-raising tech thriller. Getting us to consider: how complicit are we—as individuals, as a society—in our own undoing?
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Cast & Characters
Marion Barbeau (as Émilie)
Eugénie Derouand (as Mina)
Cédric Kahn (as Richard)
Stefan Crepon (as Olivier Seider)
Bilel Chegrani (as Coddy)
Yamée Couture (as Yaël)
Rio Vega (as Solal)
Clara Choï (as Maeva)
Alysson Paradis (as Zéna)
Anne Loiret (as Femme secrétariat)
Ely Penh (as Client camgirl)
Souleymane Sylla (as Basile)
Yasmine Fraioli (as Pilote drone FPV)
Bruni Makaya (as Pilote drone FPV (as Bruni-Stanislas Makaya))
Hao Li (as Pilote drone FPV)
Hugo Crespy (as Architecte)
Oscar Copp (as Serveur péniche)
Jean-François Cherbonnel (as Prêtre)
Yann Lesvenan (as Pompier)
Vincent Bocquillon (as Etudiant architecture (uncredited))