Headwinds (Des Vents Contraires)
2011 French Drama
based on the Olivier ADAM’s novel.
Release date : December 14, 2011
Directed by : Jalil LESPERT
Starring : Benoit MAGIMEL, Isabelle CARRE, Antoine DULERY
Original Soundtrack : David François MOREAU / Thomas PARENT (DJ Pone) – (Cristal Publishing / EMI Music Publishing France)
Plot :
Paul (Benoit Magimel), a successful writer, has his world thrown out of kilter when his wife Sarah (Tautou) vanishes without apparent reason and without trace, leaving him with two young children to raise. Cleared of involvement following a police investigation, he decides to move from Paris back to the small coastal town in Brittany where he was brought up to rebuild his life from scratch. He takes a job as an instructor in the driving school run by his older brother Alex (Antoine Dulery) and – the film’s basic concept — through his contacts with other people, learns to pick up the pieces and starts to live again.
His new acquaintances include Justine (Marie-Ange Casta), a flirty 20-year-old with whom he has a brief sexual encounter, Brehel (Bouli Lanners), a sales rep whose life has collapsed following a road accident in which he killed a cyclist, and Samir (Ramzy Bedia), a house-remover. Such drama as the film provides emerges when Samir, unemployed and homeless, abducts the daughter to whom he has been denied visiting rights by his estranged wife, and when the local police chief (Isabelle Carre) reopens the investigation into Sarah’s disappearance.
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