PREVIEW: Her Way (18)

WHO’S IN IT?

Laure Calamy (Only the Animals), Nissim Renard (Pericle), Béatrice Facquer (film debut), Romain Brau (The Shiny Shrimps), Maxence Tual (Rodin), Sam Louwyck (Cargo), Diana Korudzhiyska (film debut), Amlan Larcher (film debut), Valentina Papic (film debut), Melissa Guers (The Girl with a Bracelet), Leonarda Guinzburg (film debut), Kim Humbrecht (film debut), Sarah Ouazana (film debut), Mahir Fekih-Slimane (film debut), Corneliu Dragomirescu (Fidelio: Alice’s Journey), Ionut Mitrofan (Café Journal), Marie Schoenbock (film debut), Romain Gillot (film debut), Damien Zobir (film debut), Enzo Foïs (film debut), Yolande Besombes (Total Agates), Daniel Goscheschek (film debut)

WHO’S BEHIND THE CAMERA?

Cécile Ducrocq (film debut), director, writer; Stephanie Bermann (film debut) and Alexis Dulguerian (Bloody Milk), producers; Julie Roué (Jeune Femme), composer; Noé Bach (Anaïs in Love), cinematographer; Sophie Reine (The First Day of the Rest of Your Life), editor

WHAT’S IT ABOUT?

Marie (Calamy) is an independent prostitute who forms part of a local sex workers’ union, and a single mother to her troubled teen son Adrien (Renard), who has a passion for cooking. However, when Adrien gets himself expelled, Marie is determined for him to pursue his dream role as a chef, by attending a prestigious culinary school which requires a 9,000€ tuition fee. As she works to build up the cash, Marie finds herself pushed to her greatest limits…

IN ONE SENTENCE, WHY SHOULD YOU BE EXCITED?

Laure Calamy, a stand-out performer on the hit French series Call My Agent!, excels in this empowering and sex-positive drama that also doubles as a formidable character study to rival that of Ninja Thyberg’s porn epic Pleasure.

WHEN’S IT OUT?

FRIDAY 26TH AUGUST 2022

WHERE CAN I FIND IT?

IN CINEMAS NATIONWIDE

 

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