PEARL

By Elsa AMIEL

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Drama - Completed 2018

Elsa Amiel makes her directorial debut after working as first assistant director to Bertrand Bonello (Saint Laurent), Noémie Lvovsky (Camille Rewinds) and Mathieu Amalric (On Tour)

Starring BAFTA-winner Peter Mullan.

Festivals
& Awards

Venice Days / Giornate degli Autori 2018
Competition
    • Year of production
    • 2018
    • Genres
    • Drama
    • Countries
    • FRANCE, SWITZERLAND
    • Languages
    • FRENCH, ENGLISH
    • Duration
    • 80 mn
    • Director(s)
    • Elsa AMIEL
    • Writer(s)
    • Elsa AMIEL, Laurent LARIVIÈRE
    • Producer(s)
    • Bruno NAHON (Unité de Production), Caroline NATAF (Unité de Production)
    • Synopsis
    • 72 hours from the final of an international female bodybuilding championships. Lea Pearl is set to compete for the prestigious title of Miss Heaven, to which she has devoted the last 4 years of her life. Her mentor Al, himself a former bodybuilding star, keeps a jealous watch over her, in the hopes that thanks to his Pearl, he can once again be in the spotlight. But Lea Pearl’s past catches up with her, just a few hours from the finale, when her ex-lover Ben shows up with the 6-year-old son she has not seen in 4 years…