Les adoptés (2011)

Director:

Mélanie Laurent

Writers:

Mélanie Laurent (writer)
Morgan Perez (writer)
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Release Date:

23 November 2011 (France)

Genre:

Drama

Plot Keywords:

Hospital | Death | Nudity | Death Of Pregnant Woman | Rain

Cast

Marie Denarnaud	...	Marine
Denis Menochet	...	Alex (as Denis Ménochet)
Clémentine Célarié	...	Millie
Mélanie Laurent	...	Lisa
Théodore Maquet-Foucher	...	Léo
Audrey Lamy	...	Clémence
Morgan Perez	...	Philippe
Nicolas Medad	...	Sébastien, le kiné
Coralie Subert	...	Femme concert
Christophe Deslandes	...	Client librairie (as Chris Deslandes)
Nicolas Janin	...	Professeur de judo
Alexandre Brick	...	Barman
Melissa Drigeard	...	Aurélia
Jacques Pieri	...	Médecin
Rosen Castera	...	Infirmière
Henry Citrinot	...	Monsieur Henry
Jocelyn Lagarrigue	...	Homme bagarre
Christophe Bon	...	Maître d'hôtel
Sarah Nemtanu	...	Cliente luthier
Françoise Vallon	...	Gynécologue
Pierre Laurent	...	Chef de service
Margaux Teissier	...	Lisa enfant
Angélie Vittorelli	...	Marine enfant
rest of cast listed alphabetically:
Fabrice Perro	...	Percussionniste

Directed by
Mélanie Laurent

Writing credits (in alphabetical order)
Christophe Deslandes		writer (as Chris Deslandes)
Mélanie Laurent		writer
Morgan Perez		writer

Produced by
Bruno Levy	....	producer

Cinematography by
Arnaud Potier

Film Editing by
Guerric Catala

Casting by
Coralie Subert		(casting director)

Production Design by
Stanislas Reydellet

Art Direction by
Arnaud Denis

Costume Design by
Maira Ramedhan Lévy

Makeup Department
Jimmy Springard	....	key hair stylist

Production Management
Matthieu Dubois	....	assistant unit manager
Cecile Regnauld	....	production secretary
Jacques Royer	....	director of production

Second Unit Director or Assistant Director
Baptiste Audet	....	additional second second assistant director
Emmanuelle Fourault	....	second assistant director

Art Department
Pauline Berger	....	accessory designer
Benoit Godde	....	graphic designer
Guillaume Watrinet	....	property master

Sound Department
Guillaume D'Ham	....	sound editor
Sylvie Fortin	....	adr editor
Alain Lévy	....	post-synchronisation
Stephane Malenfant	....	boom operator
Peyre Margaux	....	second boom operator
Cyril Moisson	....	sound
Alexis Place	....	sound editor
Matthieu Tibi	....	sound mixer
Matthieu Tibi	....	sound re-recording mixer
Christophe Vingtrinier	....	adr mixer

Visual Effects by
Cédric Fayolle	....	visual effects supervisor
Damien Hurgon	....	digital compositor

Stunts
Christophe Marsaud	....	stunts

Camera and Electrical Department
Benjamin Roux	....	second assistant camera
Julien Roux	....	first assistant camera

Casting Department
Morgane Peron	....	extras casting assistant
Alexandra Weyers	....	extras casting

Costume and Wardrobe Department
Marie Dimberton	....	costumer
Elodie Mard	....	wardrobe

Editorial Department
Florian Du Pasquier	....	digital film supervisor
Magalie Léonard	....	digital colorist
Cécile Pradere	....	assistant editor

Music Department
Yann Arnaud	....	music recording engineer: music mixer
Cecile Coutelier	....	music assistant engineer

Other crew
Magali Frater	....	assistant script supervisor
Anne Gerles	....	production coordinator

Production Companies

• Move Movie (co-production)
• Studio Canal (co-production)
• TF1 Films Production (co-production)
• Rhône-Alpes Cinéma (co-production)
• Canal+ (participation)
• CinéCinéma (participation)
• Arte / Cofinova 6 (in association with)
• Centre National de la Cinématographie (CNC) (participation)

Distributors

• Studio Canal (2011) (France) (theatrical)

Also Known As:

"The Adopted" - International (English title) (imdb display title)

Runtime:

100 min

Country:

France

Language:

French

Aspect Ratio:

2.10 : 1

Certification:

Switzerland:12 (canton of Geneva) | Switzerland:12 (canton of Vaud)

Filming Locations:

Lyon, Rhône, Rhône-Alpes, France

Company:

Move Movie

this is a fine and delicate french film

you have to admit that when the french got a very good screenplay, then found a very good director, then the casting c.s.a. did a great job to find the appropriate actors to play it, then that film would be nothing but great, and this film just proved it. this is a very simply straight forward movie that we might or might not have watched before. the storyline is actually with one pretty directional development. the deep love of two young women, one of them was adopted as an orphan by a loving single-parental, free-willed independent mother, the elder sister treated the adopted one like a real sister. and the elder dramatically was a second generation single parent with a love young boy(who acted so naturally well and lovable in this film). the adopted daughter working in a bookstore with a lonely, always complaining, insecure female owner (also played so naturally well). she fell in love with a man who came in to seek sanctuary from the rain. they fell in love(gradually and also, so naturally in this film without any forced falsehood). she was loved so deeply by that man and sometimes so fearful of the commitment and wanted to escape the relationship and still tried to stay with her adopted family, her sister, her nephew, and her adopted mother.

there were so many profound dialog about love, anti-commitment, family value, how to deal with personal demons, how to be loved and why you must love, why you have to seek someone out from the crowd and choose him or her for your life and the only person who would occupy in your whole life after you've found him or her.

and of course, the moon could never be always full, and flowers could never be stayed blossomed and always radiate wonderful smells. tragedy got to happen to make a drama evolve into the second but deeper level. and the scenario and the plot were both predictable and one directional, but in a very good development by the very crafty screenplay.

there is a very subtle agenda and ingredient in this movie that strongly claimed: the unavoidable loss and repetition of the fate; the fatal and doomed outcomes of the unforeseeable future (but is it really so foreseeable and/or so unpredictable? i don't think so). there seems an unsee-able being that we call 'fate' hiding behind everybody's life, manipulating you to go or reroute the paths of your life.

the other thought floated up when the movie came to end was: why french movie always used American pop songs at the beginning, in between and in the finale? are American songs the only choice that could be more compatible with a french movie? or the french sound trackers for their movies always considered American songs could match their movies more appropriately? or they thought the french songs in their french movies are not quite matching? what is it? this is a question that always came up onto my mind when watching the European movies, it's not just french movie only, German, Holland, the scandinavians, east europeans...they always chose American songs for their own unique movies. this is a myth that i'd like all the movie industries of all the countries other than the American to think about seriously. what's wrong with your own songs that you prefer not using them instead of the Americans?