''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. The drama of this kind is usually qualified with additional terms that specify its particular ...
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 the
Wimbledon Tennis Championships
The Wimbledon Championships, commonly called Wimbledon, is a tennis tournament organised by the All England Lawn Tennis and Croquet Club in collaboration with the Lawn Tennis Association annually in Wimbledon, London. It is chronologically the ...
. As their relationship deepens, David decides to become Amanda’s guardian and to adopt her.
Cast
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Vincent Lacoste as David
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Stacy Martin
Stacy Martin (born 20 March 1990) is a French actress. Her breakthrough role was playing Joe as a young woman in Lars von Trier's 2013 drama film '' Nymphomaniac''. She is a frequent collaborator with Brady Corbet, having appeared in his films ...
as Léna
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Ophélia Kolb
Ophélia Kolb (born 1982) is a French actress.
Career
She was nominated twice to the Molière Award for Best Supporting Actress, winning in 2019 for her role in '' The Glass Menagerie'', directed by Charlotte Rondelez.
Theater
Filmogr ...
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 ( , ; born 18 February 1960) is an actress. Born in Italy to a British-Italian couple, she was raised in Britain and finally settled in Australia, becoming a naturalized citizen.
Scacchi had her first leading role in the romanti ...
as Alison
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Nabiha Akkari as Raja
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Raphaël Thiéry as Moïse
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Claire Tran as Lydia
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Elli Medeiros
Elli Medeiros (born 18 January 1956) is a Uruguayan-French singer and actress.
Career
Stinky Toys
Originally from Uruguay, Medeiros moved to Paris, France, at the age of 14, dropped out of high school a couple of years later and joined the ...
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 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
External links
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2018 films
2018 drama films
2010s French films
2010s French-language films
Films directed by Mikhaël Hers
Films scored by Anton Sanko
French drama films
French-language drama films
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