''Amanda'' is a 2018 French
drama film
In film and television, drama is a category or genre of narrative fiction (or semi-fiction) intended to be more serious than humorous in tone. Drama of this kind is usually qualified with additional terms that specify its particular super ...
directed by
Mikhaël Hers.
Plot
Living in Paris, 24-year-old David is close to his sister Sandrine – a single mother – and her seven-year-old daughter, Amanda. Sandrine is an English teacher, while David looks after holiday lets and is a part-time gardener. He meets Lena, a piano teacher. Sandrine goes to the park with friends where, in a terrorist attack, she is killed and Lena injured. David looks after Amanda but, even with the help of his aunt Maud, he isn’t sure he can cope and considers sending her to a children’s home. Amanda initially wants to stay with Maud but, as she and David begin to bond, she changes her mind. Lena moves back home to Bordeaux but David asks her to move in with him. He then takes Amanda to London to meet his estranged mother Alison, and to visit
Wimbledon. As their relationship deepens, David decides to become Amanda’s guardian and to adopt her.
Cast
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Vincent Lacoste
Vincent Lacoste (born 3 July 1993) is a French actor. He began his acting career at the age of fifteen, playing the lead role of Hervé in the film '' The French Kissers''. The role won him the Lumières Award for Most Promising Actor and a nom ...
as David
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Stacy Martin as Léna
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Ophélia Kolb as Sandrine
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Marianne Basler as Maud
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Jonathan Cohen as Axel
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Greta Scacchi
Greta Scacchi, OMRI (; born 18 February 1960) is an Italian-Australian actress. She holds dual Italian and Australian citizenship. She is best known for her roles in the films '' White Mischief'' (1987), '' Presumed Innocent'' (1990), '' The Pl ...
as Alison
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Nabiha Akkari
Nabiha Bensouda is a Danish singer-songwriter.
Early life
Career
”Deep Sleep", the first single from the album peaked as 4 on the Danish Tracklisten Singles Chart and was certified gold. Bensouda has already played a number of large ve ...
as Raja
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Raphaël Thiéry as Moïse
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Claire Tran as Lydia
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Elli Medeiros as Eve
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Zoé Bruneau as the social worker
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Lily Bensliman as the journalist at the café
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Lawrence Valin as the Indian father
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Missia Piccoli as the mother at the lycée
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David Olivier Fischer
David (; , "beloved one") (traditional spelling), , ''Dāwūd''; grc-koi, Δαυΐδ, Dauíd; la, Davidus, David; gez , ዳዊት, ''Dawit''; xcl, Դաւիթ, ''Dawitʿ''; cu, Давíдъ, ''Davidŭ''; possibly meaning "beloved one". w ...
as the father at the lycée
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Luke Tristan as the man beside the Thames
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Jeanne Candel as the first young woman in the hospital
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Lisa Wisznia as the second young woman in the hospital
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Léah Lapiower as Emmanuelle
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Carole Rochet as the guardian at the school
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Christopher Koderisch as a tennis player
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Lannart Zynga as a tennis player
References
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2018 films
2010s French-language films
2018 drama films
French drama films
2010s French films
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