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Vingt Dieux
Louise Courvoisier

Following the death of his farmer father, hard-partying 18-year-old Totone (Clément Faveau) sets his sights on an unlikely path to securing his family’s future: winning a 30,000 Euro prize for producing the best Comté cheese in the region.

DIRECTOR
Louise Courvoisier
YEAR
2024
COUNTRY
France
RUNTIME
92 minutes
LANGUAGE
French with English subtitles
ORIGINAL TITLE
Vingt Dieux

Q&A with Louise Courvoisier

  • Winner of two César Awards including Best First Film and Best Female Revelation (Maïwene Barthelemy)

Following the sudden death of his farmer father, hard-partying 18-year-old Totone (Clément Faveau) is abruptly obliged to step into the role of man of the house in Louise Courvoisier’s directorial debut, which premiered in the Un Certain Regard section at last year’s Cannes Film Festival. Taking a job at a nearby dairy farm, where he quickly falls for the farmer’s daughter, Totone makes up his mind to jump-start his family’s future via an unorthodox shortcut: winning a 30,000 Euro prize for producing the best Comté in the region. In this warm, lived-in coming-of-age fable—a treat for cheese-loving cinephiles in particular—Courvoisier brings together a cast of non-professional actors from the Jura region where she herself grew up, creating a rich depiction of rural agricultural life that’s also a crowd-pleasing story about the unlikely detours that shape the utterly unpredictable process of growing up. A Zeitgeist Films release in association with Kino Lorber.

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