THE FRENCH MINISTER (Quai d'Orsay)
By Bertrand Tavernier
With Raphaël Personnaz, Niels Arestrup, Thierry Lhermitte
2013 | Comedy | Not Rated | 1h53 | Sundance Selects

The young Arthur Vlaminck is hired as speechwriter for French Minister of Foreign Affairs Alexandre Taillard de Vorms. Struggling to handle the minister’s overbearing personality, Vlaminck navigates the ever-changing plots of foreign affairs with the minister’s ultra-calm private secretary and a band of quirky counselors by his side.

The French Minister is based on the graphic novel Weapons of Mass Diplomacy by Christophe Blain and Abel Lanzac (a pseudonym of Cultural Counselor to the French Embassy Antonin Baudry).

Watch a video interview Bertrand Tavernier, here.

Films on the Green @ Columbia is presented in partnership with the Columbia Maison Française.

Film in French with English subtitles

No alcohol allowed. In the event of rain, the screening will be held in the Maison Française, East Gallery, Buell Hall.
 

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