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'Alice and the Mayor' is a 2019 French drama film directed by Nicolas Pariser. It was screened in the Directors' Fortnight section at the 2019 Cannes Film Festival, where it won the Europa Cinemas Label Award for Best European Film.

Plot



Alice, a reserved single woman, gives up teaching in England to work in the city hall of Lyon, France's third city. Her job is to feed ideas to the mayor, Paul Thraneau, a divorced man who does not have enough time to read and think. He appreciates her help and soon promotes her, which provokes jealousy in the rest of the office. She is put on a team to plan the city of the future, but soon sees that it is a vanity project going nowhere. Discussions with Thraneau, a lifelong socialist who increasingly values her input, bring home to her to that intellectuals may discuss but politicians must deliver.

She looks up a former lover, Gauthier, but he is preoccupied with his eccentric wife. At a meeting, Alice is impressed by an entrepreneur who has revived a hand-printing business, the last in Lyon, and goes back to his apartment one evening but, after making love, he violently criticises her way of life. Deeply shaken, she goes to bed in her apartment alone and rings Gauthier, who comes round and tries to reassure her, revealing that his wife is in and out of psychiatric care. While Gauthier is there, Alice's phone rings. It is the mayor in his car outside, who has had a tense dinner with his ex-wife and wants somebody to comfort him. Alice manages to offer sympathy without inviting him upstairs.

Thraneau decides to campaign for the socialist nomination in the upcoming elections for the presidency of the republic and makes Alice his speechwriter. At the socialist congress, he has doubts over his chances and does not leave his hotel to deliver his stirring address. Three years later, Alice revisits Lyon from her job in England and meets up with Thraneau, who has retired from public duties. The two still enjoy each other's company but their lives, once close, are now far apart. He has plenty of time to read and think, while she has a baby to rear.

Cast



* Fabrice Luchini as Paul Thraneau

* Anas Demoustier as Alice Heimann

* Nora Hamzawi as Mlinda

* as Isabelle Leinsdorf

* Antoine Reinartz as Daniel

* Maud Wyler as Delphine Bnard

* as Gauthier

* as Xavier

References




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