TRÈS BIEN, MERCI
When Parisian accountant Alex stumbles upon a routine identity check, he stops to watch. The police tell him to move along, but he insists on his right to do what he likes in public, a point of view that earns him a night in the cells. Still outraged in the morning, he is committed to a psychiatric clinic. Once in the system, how is he meant to get out? Très bien, merci is a portrait of the abuses of power in France. It is comic and horrifying by turns, as the drama contrasts Alex's experience with «normal» life as seen by his partner, Béatrice. A subtle, unsentimental political drama.
In its attention to pragmatic detail anchored in social realities, Très bien, merci could be read as a comic update of Hitchcock's The Wrong Man. Emanuelle Cuau deftly conveys the stigma of being considered guilty until proven innocent. What might qualify as «proof» is always a micron out of reach. (Lisa Nesselson)
- Gilbert Melki - Alex
- Sandrine Kiberlain - Béatrice
- Olivier Cruveiller - Landier
- Christophe Odent - Alex' Vorgesetzter
- Nathalie Akoun-Cruveiller - Ärztin
- Frederic Pierrot - Assistenzarzt
- Emanuelle Cuau
- Agnès Caffin
- Bruno de Keyzer
- Emanuel Soland
- Jackie Bastide
- Véronique Barneoud
- Dorothée Lissac
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