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QUAI D'ORSAY

By Bertrand TAVERNIER

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Comedy - Completed 2013

Alexandre Taillard de Vorms, France’s Minister of Foreign Affairs, is a force to be reckoned with, who takes on American neo-cons, corrupt Russians and the like. Enter Arthur Vlaminck who is hired as head of “language” at the ministry.
In other words, he is to write the minister's speeches.

Festivals
& Awards

Toronto - TIFF 2013

Special Presentations

San Sebastian FF 2013

Official selection Jury prize for best screenplay

RDV Unifrance 2014

- Year of production
- 2013
- Genres
- Comedy
- Countries
- FRANCE
- Languages
- FRENCH
- Budget
- 0 - 0.3 M$
- Duration
- 114 mn
- Director(s)
- Bertrand TAVERNIER
- Writer(s)
- Antonin BAUDRY, Christophe BLAIN, Bertrand TAVERNIER
- Cast
- Thierry LHERMITTE, Raphaël PERSONNAZ, Niels ARESTRUP, Anaïs DEMOUSTIER, Julie GAYET
- ISAN
- 0000-0003-9DFA-0000-Q-0000-0000-X
- EIDR
- 10.5240/FBF5-984C-78C5-E1F4-637E-8
- Producer(s)
- Jérôme SEYDOUX (PATHE), Frédéric BOURBOULON (LITTLE BEAR)
- Synopsis
- Alexandre Taillard de Vorms is tall and impressive, a man with style, attractive to women. He also happens to be the Minister of Foreign Affairs for the land of enlightenment: France. With his silver mane and tanned, athletic body, he stalks the world stage, from the floor of the United Nations in New York to the powder keg of Oubanga.
  There, he calls on the powerful and invokes the mighty to bring peace, to calm the trigger-happy, and to cement his aura of Nobel Peace Prize winner-in-waiting. Alexandre Taillard de Vorms is a force to be reckoned with, waging his own war backed up by the holy trinity of diplomatic concepts: legitimacy, lucidity and efficacy. He takes on American neo-cons, corrupt Russians and money-grabbing Chinese. Perhaps the world doesn’t deserve France’s magnanimousness, but his art would be wasted if just restricted to home turf.
  Enter the young Arthur Vlaminck, graduate of the elite National School of Ad-ministration, who is hired as head of “language” at the foreign ministry. In other words, he is to write the minister’s speeches. But he also has to learn to deal with the sensibilities of the boss and his entou-rage, and find his way between the private secretary and the special advisors who stalk the corridors of the Quai d’Orsay – the ministry’s home – where stress, ambition and dirty dealing are the daily currency. But just as he thinks he can influence the fate of the world, everything seems threatened by the inertia of the technocrats.

QUAI D'ORSAY

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