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Louise (Take 2) (1999)

Louise (Take 2) (1999)

Drama
Release Date: 1999, January 20
Directors: Siegfried
Countries: France
Production: Initial Productions, Ciné Valse, Ciné Valse, Le Studio Canal+, Le Studio Canal+
Cast: Tonio Descanvelle, Sabine Bail, Roschdy Zem, Lou Castel, Élodie Bouchez, Bruce Myers, Philippe Ambrosini, Gérald Thomassin, Alice Houri, Antoine du Merle, Naguime Bendidi

Overview:

The central role of Louise is portrayed by Elodie Bouchez, who won a 1998 Cannes "Best Actress" award for The Dreamlife of Angels. When Louise has an encounter with homeless Remi (Roschdy Zem), they have a magnetic attraction, but she is already attached to illiterate shoplifter and pickpocket punk Yaya (Gerald Thomassin). Although allied with Yaya in petty crimes, Louise lives with her widowed father (Lou Castel), a devoted writer of fiction. After a Metro bum (Bruce Myers) tells her of his desire to see his young son, she plucks the kid, Gaby (Antoine de Merle), right out of school, making him the newest rookie recruited into their subway gang. Shoplifting in a department store, the young toughs escape the store's security guards by hiding in the ballet rehearsal rooms of the nearby opera. But does Louise really belong with the subway toughs, or is she just pretending? When she's arrested, Louise is forced to reexamine her lifestyle.