De bon matin (2011)

Director:

Jean-Marc Moutout

Writers:

Sophie Fillières (adaptation)
Olivier Gorce (adaptation)
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Release Date:

5 October 2011 (France)

Genre:

Drama

Plot:

Monday morning. Paul Wertret, 50, heads off to his job as a manager at the International Credit and Trade Bank...

Plot Keywords:

Gun | Bank | Boat | Fired From The Job | Murder

Cast

Jean-Pierre Darroussin	...	Paul
Valérie Dréville	...	Françoise
Xavier Beauvois	...	Alain Fisher
Yannick Renier	...	Fabrice Van Listeich
Laurent Delbecque	...	Benoît
Ralph Amoussou	...	Youssef
Aladin Reibel	...	Antoine
Pierre Aussedat	...	Foucade
François Chattot	...	Lancelin
Nelly Antignac	...	Clarisse
Frédéric Leidgens	...	Docteur Hogard
Marion Denys	...	Annette
Richard Sammut	...	Roberto
Jean-François Pages	...	Eric
Marie Collins	...	Nadine
Eloïse Dogustan	...	Sonia
Amandine Lambert	...	Nathalie
Christophe Baillargeau	...	Employé 1
Frédéric Moulin	...	Employé 2
Valérie de Monza	...	Employée 3
Quentin Delegue	...	Employé 4
Fanny Mazepa	...	Mélodie
Anne De Broca	...	Directeur Euro Delta
Hervé Dubourjal	...	Autre directeur Euro Delta
Pierre Baux	...	Homme bar
Tristan Girault	...	Homme carrière
Jacques Bonnaffé	...	L'ami au téléphone (voice)

Directed by
Jean-Marc Moutout

Writing credits (in alphabetical order)
Sophie Fillières		adaptation
Olivier Gorce		adaptation
Jean-Marc Moutout

Produced by
Denis Delcampe	....	co-producer
Margaret Ménégoz	....	producer
Régine Vial	....	producer

Cinematography by
Pierric Gantelmi d'Ille

Film Editing by
Julie Brenta		(sound editor)
Marie Da Costa

Casting by
Stéphane Batut

Set Decoration by
Quentin Lestienne		(decoration)

Costume Design by
Dorothée Guiraud

Makeup Department
Virginie Berland	....	facial hair maker
Lisa Schonker	....	key makeup artist
Céline Vh	....	key hair stylist

Production Management
Christophe Desenclos	....	production manager
Fournier Michael	....	assistant unit manager
Arthur Morin	....	assistant unit manager

Second Unit Director or Assistant Director
Justine Bosco	....	third assistant director
Raphaëlle Bruyas	....	first assistant director
Stéphane Talagrand	....	second assistant director

Art Department
Lionel Brison	....	carpenter
Tristan Girault	....	property master
Marc Jeannel	....	carpenter
Philippe van Herwijnen	....	assistant art director

Sound Department
Jérôme Chenevoy	....	boom operator
François Guillaume	....	sound

Visual Effects by
Simon Descamps	....	i/o vfx support
Alexandre Gény	....	digital compositor
Frederic Moreau	....	visual effects designer
Fred Roz	....	titles
Mikael Tanguy	....	visual effects supervisor

Stunts
Gil Demurger	....	stunt coordinator

Camera and Electrical Department
Damien Lecoq	....	additional grip
Yves Michaud	....	steadicam operator
Quiterie Seguin-Medrinal	....	second assistant camera
Damien Tessandier	....	first assistant camera
Julien Torloting	....	additional grip

Casting Department
Dorothée Chesnot	....	additional casting
Dorothée Chesnot	....	extras casting
Stéphanie Doncker	....	extras casting assistant

Costume and Wardrobe Department
Dorothée Guiraud	....	costume supervisor

Editorial Department
Marjolaine Mispelaere	....	colorist

Other crew
Sophie Lixon	....	production secretary
Julien Schmitt	....	assistant location manager
Arnaud Tournaire	....	location manager
Isabelle Vossart	....	location scout

Production Companies

• Les Films du Losange (co-production)
• Need Productions (co-production)
• France 2 Cinéma (co-production)
• Rhône-Alpes Cinéma (co-production)
• Radio Télévision Belge Francophone (RTBF) (co-production)
• Canal+ (participation)
• CinéCinéma (participation)
• France Télévision (participation)
• Cinémage 5 (in association with)
• Région Ile-de-France (support)
• Région Rhône-Alpes (support)
• Centre National de la Cinématographie (CNC) (participation)
• Le Tax Shelter du Gouvernement Fédéral de Belgique (participation)

Distributors

• Les Films du Losange (2011) (France) (theatrical)
• O'Brother Distribution (2011) (Belgium) (theatrical)

Also Known As:

"Early One Morning" - UK (imdb display title)

Runtime:

France:90 min

Country:

France | Belgium

Language:

French

Color:

Color

Aspect Ratio:

2.35 : 1

Sound Mix:

Dolby Digital

Certification:

Switzerland:14 (canton of Vaud) | Switzerland:14 (canton of Geneva)

Filming Locations:

Annecy, Haute-Savoie, France

Company:

Les Films du Losange

Movie Connections:

References Into the Wild (2007)

Raging, but without gain

It's a pity to have to consign this film to the two-star bin. Jean-Marc Moutout flashback drama is a solid, tonally consistent piece keeping its head just above the moral floodwaters of the global banking crisis. It's inability to achieve any sort of argument, bias or conclusion isn't a failure. The subject preaches to a converted audience. However it is unsatisfactory.

For example: for all Jean-Pierre Darroussin's restrained moral and professional outrage not enough melodrama breaks the surface. It's a good, focused performance but it doesn't point us anywhere. Paul has his feet on the ground, even in an act of dreadful violence (which made people laugh in the screening I attended, such is the incongruity of his clear-sighted actions). He isn't a Meursault, operating on a different consciousness.

The film is bookended with Beethoven - the funeral march of the seventh Symphony and then the same music in variations by Robert Schumann, epic music of the inevitability of mortality. This is what I took from the film - the fruitless struggle of a good man in the overwhelming grip of bad faith. Not easily digestible. 4/10