''The Scent of Mandarin'' (french: L'Odeur de la mandarine) is a 2015 French

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directed by Gilles Legrand. It stars

Olivier Gourmet Olivier Gourmet (born 22 July 1963) is a Belgian actor. Gourmet was born in Namur. He won the Best Actor award at the 2002 Cannes Film Festival for his role in '' Le Fils'' by Jean-Pierre and Luc Dardenne. He also appeared in ''La Promesse'' ...

and Georgia Scalliet. It was nominated for two

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at the

41st César Awards The 41st César Awards ceremony, presented by the Académie des Arts et Techniques du Cinéma, was held on 26 February 2016, at the Théâtre du Châtelet in Paris to honour the best French films of 2015. The ceremony was presided by Claude Lelou ...

. The mother and her child have to seek shelter under the manor of kind and rich retired general. He and the mother decide to marry but they plan to have no children. The general and the mother having trouble in bed. The general decides to satisfy through prostitution. The mother quite piss about this and decide to hump with the horse keeper who has already kept an eye on her for sometime.

Cast

as Charles * Georgia Scalliet as Angèle * Dimitri Storoge as Léonard *

Hélène Vincent Hélène Vincent (born 9 September 1943) is a French actress and stage director. Career She received a César Award for Best Supporting Actress in 1989 for her role as Madame Marielle Le Quesnoy in ''Life Is a Long Quiet River'' and a nominati ...

as Émilie * Marine Vallée as Louise * Fred Ulysse as Firmin * Romain Bouteille as the notary *

Michel Robin Michel Robin (13 November 1930 – 18 November 2020) was a French film, stage, and television actor. A Sociétaires of the Comédie-Française, sociétaire of the Comédie-Française since 1996, he also appeared in 120 films from 1966 to 201 ...

as the priest *

Alix Bénézech Alix Bénézech is a French actress. Biography Alix Bénézech was raised in Alsace and the south of France. She holds a bachelor's degree with honors and validates a master's degree in modern literature while taking singing, dance and acting l ...

as Louison *

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as Sergeant

Accolades

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* 2015 films 2015 drama films Films set in 1918 2010s French-language films French drama films Films directed by Gilles Legrand 2010s French films Films scored by Armand Amar {{2010s-France-film-stub