''Le Grand Soir'' () is a 2012 French-Belgian comedy-drama film directed by
Benoît Delépine and
Gustave de Kervern. The film competed in the
Un Certain Regard
(, meaning 'a certain glance') is a section of the Cannes Film Festival's official selection. It is run at the Debussy, parallel to the competition for the . This section was introduced in 1978 by Gilles Jacob.
The section presents 20 films w ...
section at the
2012 Cannes Film Festival where it won the Special Jury Prize. It won the
Magritte Award for Best Costume Design
The Magritte Award for Best Costume Design ( French: Magritte des meilleurs costumes) is an award presented annually by the Académie André Delvaux. It is one of the Magritte Awards, which were established to recognize excellence in Belgian cin ...
.
Plot
Not is a notorious
punk
Punk or punks may refer to:
Genres, subculture, and related aspects
* Punk rock, a music genre originating in the 1970s associated with various subgenres
* Punk subculture, a subculture associated with punk rock, or aspects of the subculture s ...
while his brother Jean-Pierre leads a square life as a salesman. One day Not realises that his brother needs some support. Jean-Pierre struggles with his job and also fails when he tries to save his marriage. Not teaches his brother to survive after all.
Cast
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Benoît Poelvoorde
Benoît Poelvoorde (, ; born 22 September 1964) is a Belgian actor and comedian.
Early life
His mother was a grocer and his father a driver, who died when Poelvoorde was still a minor. He attended the Jesuit Boarding School of Godinne before ...
as Not
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Albert Dupontel
Albert Dupontel (; born 11 January 1964) is a French actor, film director and screenwriter. Following his father's path, he studied medicine but eventually switched to theater, disillusioned by hospital life. He started his career as a stand-u ...
as Jean-Pierre Bonzini
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Brigitte Fontaine
Brigitte Fontaine, (born 24 June 1939) is a singer of avant-garde music. She has employed numerous unusual musical styles, melding rock and roll, folk, jazz, electronica, spoken word poetry, and world. She has collaborated with Stereolab, Mic ...
as Mother – Marie-Annick Bonzini
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Areski Belkacem
Areski Belkacem (born 23 January 1940), also known simply as Areski, is a French singer, multi-instrumentalist, comedian and composer.
Biography
Areski grew up in Versailles, where his parents, of kabyle (Berber) descent, were welcoming Alge ...
as Father – René Bonzini
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Bouli Lanners as the security guard
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Serge Larivière as the director of the 'Grand Litier'
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Stéphanie Pillonca as Jean-Pierre's ex-wife
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Miss Ming as the mute young woman
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Chloé Mons
Chloé Mons (born in Lille on 1 December 1972) is a French actress and singer.
Biography
Chloé grew up in Lille in a family of musicians. She is the sister of Barnabé Mons, the leader of the psychedelic rock group Sheetah & Les Weissmullers. S ...
as the punk girl
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Yolande Moreau
Yolande Moreau (born 27 February 1953) is a Belgian comedian, actress, film director and screenwriter. She has won three César Awards from four nominations.
Career
She made her cinematic debut with director Agnès Varda in two movies: Sept pià ...
as the punk girl's mother
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Gérard Depardieu as Juvénal
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Didier Wampas as himself
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Noël Godin
Noël Godin (born 13 September 1945) is a Belgian writer, critic, actor and notorious pie thrower or ''entarteur''. Godin gained global attention in 1998 when his group ambushed Microsoft CEO Bill Gates in Brussels, pelting the software magnate ...
as the husband
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Denis Barthe as the barkeeper
References
External links
Official Press Kit
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2012 films
2012 comedy-drama films
French comedy-drama films
Belgian comedy-drama films
2010s French-language films
Films directed by Benoît Delépine
Films directed by Gustave Kervern
French-language Belgian films
2010s French films
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