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      The Minister

      2011 1h 52m Comedy Drama List
      Reviews 54% Audience Score 100+ Ratings The demands of a French politician's (Olivier Gourmet) job slowly consume him. Read More Read Less

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      Elise Nakhnikian Slant Magazine Saint-Jean may be able to laugh off a woman's rage at the government's ineptitude and apparent cluelessness, but that's not so easy for the rest of us. Rated: 3/4 Mar 20, 2012 Full Review Kent Turner Film-Forward.com Dry as a cabernet sauvignon Rated: 2/4 Mar 25, 2012 Full Review Read all reviews

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      Audience Member Brilliant. Finally a movie that shows how governing actually works. The day-to-day grind of running a ministry has none of the West Wing glamour and excitement. It’s grueling and filled with small dilemmas that test character at every turn. Rated 5 out of 5 stars 11/11/19 Full Review Audience Member Una buena radiografia del alcance descarnado de los tentaculos politicos. Con un poco de metraje innecesario para el tercer acto, pero objetiva en su intencion de desnudar la perdida de ideales en el ejercicio de un cargo publico. Rated 3.5 out of 5 stars 01/14/23 Full Review Audience Member Not a bad surprise... Rated 4 out of 5 stars 02/21/23 Full Review Audience Member And we can read his cellphone display and text messages on-screen. Really. Rated 3.5 out of 5 stars 02/19/23 Full Review Audience Member L'execice de L'etat is like a species on the verge of extinction. You don't know much about its existence until you realize it is one of kind. You try to remember if you have ever seen something similar, but very little comes close. And because you feel this species may vanish away sometime soon, you grow fond of it. Like pandas, it is a creature you care about, and it would be too bad if they simply disappear. But make no mistake - this movie is no panda, an alligator would be more appropriate, and that's exactly what you see when the movie starts. You wonder why, but this film does not offer easy answers. You must go on and find them yourself, and this is what most delighted me. Watching this film made me feel like an outside, after all, it's about politics. But the more in doubt, the more excited I was. And it made more and more sense when I started thinking about the recent carnage for power in the American presidential campaign, the economic and political warzone in the European Union. This film is a rare opportunity to peep in behind the doors of political exercise nowadays. However, it is more than a lesson. Olivier Gourmet is formidable and you know he achieved something big. Politicians don't enjoy any popularity nowadays, but his minister is still fascinating even after causing a casualty that is cruelly exposed to our eyes. And despite his survival-of-the-fittest manner, you may approve some of his principles in the end. L'execise de L'etat is indeed a rare film. It did not make me laugh, it did not make me cry, it just made me think, which is a great achievement in movies nowadays, unfortunately. Rated 4 out of 5 stars 01/24/23 Full Review Audience Member A weird film about realistically dry and boring french politics on a high level. Games and intrigues and spinning it the right way. One of the odd ones in Espoo Cine 2011. Rated 1 out of 5 stars 01/19/23 Full Review Read all reviews Post a rating

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      Synopsis The demands of a French politician's (Olivier Gourmet) job slowly consume him.
      Director
      Pierre Schoeller
      Screenwriter
      Pierre Schoeller
      Production Co
      Belgacom, France 3 Cinéma, RTBF, Les Films du Fleuve, Archipel 35
      Genre
      Comedy, Drama
      Original Language
      French (France)
      Runtime
      1h 52m
      Aspect Ratio
      Scope (2.35:1)