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The Minister

L'exercice de l'État (The Minister)

2011

Pierre Schoeller

Olivier Gourmet, Michel Blanc, Zabou Breitman, Laurent Stocker ...

6.3

754

Drama The Minister for Transport, Bertrand Saint-Jean, is woken in the middle of the night by his personal private secretary. A bus has crashed into a ravine. He goes there, he has no choice. Thus begins the odyssey of a State official through an increasingly complex and hostile world. Speed, power struggles, chaos, economic crisis... In the frantic chain of events, one emergency replaces another. What sacrifices are men ready to accept? How ... [+]

	Author	Review
United States	Jordan Mintzer The Hollywood Reporter	"At once intriguing and dense, disjointed and overwrought"	POS
United States	Peter Debruge Variety	"Writer-director Pierre Schoeller's serious-minded exploration of what makes a French politician tick could impress local auds intrigued to get a nonpartisan look at the process"	NEU

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