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THE FRENCH KISSERS

by Riad Sattouf

synopsis

14-year-old Hervé is an average teenager who lives alone with his mother and struggles to cope with his urges, unprepossessing physique and mediocre intellect. He just gets by at school, surrounded as he is by his best buddies. Going out with girls is his major preoccupation. Sadly, in this field, he keeps striking out. But he never says die. One day, without really knowing how, he finds himself in the good books of Aurore, one of the prettiest girls in class. Surrounded by a gallery of saucy, wild characters, Hervé tries to grow up in this little world in perpetual movement, this world of adolescence in which emotions must be dominated.

international title: The French Kissers
original title: Les Beaux Gosses
country: France
sales agent: Pathé International, Other Angle Pictures
year: 2009
genre: fiction
directed by: Riad Sattouf
film run: 90'
release date: FR 10/06/2009, BE 24/06/2009, PT 10/12/2009, IT 30/04/2010, GR 13/05/2010, DE 01/07/2010, IT 23/09/2011, ES 10/02/2012
screenplay: Riad Sattouf, Marc Syrigas
cast: Vincent Lacoste, Alice Tremolières, Noémie Lvovsky, Irène Jacob, Emmanuelle Devos, Julie Scheibling, Camille Andreys, Robin Duverger, Baptiste Huet, Nicolas Maury
cinematography by: Dominique Colin
film editing: Virginie Bruant
art director: Marie Cheminal
music: Riad Sattouf, Flairs
producer: Anne-Dominique Toussaint
production: Les Films des Tournelles, Pathé Films, Studio 37
distributor: Pathé Distribution, Alternative Films, Kool Filmdistribution, Nomad Film, A Contracorriente Films

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