Directed by: Michel Leclerc
Cast: Jacques Gamblin, Sara Forestier, Zinedine Soualem, Carole Franck, Jacques Boudet
Comedy / 2010 / 1h44 mn
Festivals: Busan International Film Festival 2010, Cannes International Critics’ Week 2010, Rio de Janeiro International Film Festival 2011
Awards: 2011 Cesar Award Best Actress in a Leading Role for Sara Forestier, 2011 Cesar Award Original Screenplay for Michel Leclerc and Baya Kasmi
Young extroverti Baya Benmahmoud lives by this classic motto: “make love, not war”. In order to convert her political enemies to her cause, she sleeps with them - which means a lot of men, because every conservative is her enemy! When she meets Arthur Martin, she figures that with such a common name (there are more than 10,000 Arthur Martins in France), he’s bound to be a real conservative and thus hard to convert…
The director Michel Leclerc met his wife Baya (co-writer of the film) in a very similar way as the beginning of this partly autobiographical film.
