For She's a Jolly Good Fellow (She's One of Us, Elle est des nôtres) (2003)

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Directed by

Siegrid Alnoy

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Sasha Andres
Christine Blanc

Carlo Brandt
Degas

Catherine Mouchet
Patricia

Eric Caravaca
Éric

Mireille Roussel
Pascale

Jacques Spiesser
Danjard

Geneviève Mnich
La mère de Christine

Dominique Valadié
Marie-Noëlle, la voisine

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Siegrid Alnoy
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Description: Echoes of Dostoyevsky. At the start, Christine Blanc is a temp, her boyfriend has gone. Near the story's end, she's been offered a steady job, she has a fiancé, other men seem interested in her, she's passed her driving test, and, after she wins 1000 Euros in a scratch-off, her colleagues sing that she's a jolly good fellow ("one of us"). But something's askew: her gaze is too direct, her eyes open too widely; conversational gambits hit odd notes; she parrots others' words; she cooks too much food when she invites a supervisor to dinner. When the supervisor takes Christine on a spontaneous outing that disorients her, ... (more)

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