Un homme d'État (2014) Directed by Pierre Courrège
Drama
aka: The Statesman
Film Synopsis
Jean-François Vanier is desperate to be re-elected for a second term
as President of the Republic, but his opinion ratings are at their lowest
and a sense of impending defeat hangs over his campaign. It is only
three weeks from the first round of the elections and Vanier needs to make
significant progress in the polls if he is to avoid a humiliating defeat.
The obvious thing would be to galvanise the support of those who, like him,
are on the right of the political spectrum. Instead, his advisers convince
him that he should seek an endorsement from Robert Bergman, a former leftwing
politician who is still highly thought of. Without delay, Vanier's
team drops in on the little village in the Gers region of France where Bergman
lives, knowing they have an uphill task ahead of them as they try to convince
the political big beast to support their candidate...
Science-fiction came into its own in B-movies of the 1950s, but it remains a respected and popular genre, bursting into the mainstream in the late 1970s.
It was American film noir and pulp fiction that kick-started the craze for thrillers in 1950s France and made it one of the most popular and enduring genres.