''Amanda'' is a 2018 French
drama film
In film and television, drama is a category or genre of narrative fiction (or semi-fiction) intended to be more serious than humorous in tone. Drama of this kind is usually qualified with additional terms that specify its particular super ...
directed by
Mikhaël Hers
Mikhaël Hers (; born 6 February 1975) is a French film director and screenwriter.
His directorial credits includes ''Memory Lane'' (2010), ''This Summer Feeling'' (2015) and ''Amanda'' (2018) among others. His latest film '' The Passengers of ...
.
Plot
Living in Paris, 24-year-old David is close to his sister Sandrine – a single mother – and her seven-year-old daughter, Amanda. Sandrine is an English teacher, while David looks after holiday lets and is a part-time gardener. He meets Lena, a piano teacher. Sandrine goes to the park with friends where, in a terrorist attack, she is killed and Lena injured. David looks after Amanda but, even with the help of his aunt Maud, he isn’t sure he can cope and considers sending her to a children’s home. Amanda initially wants to stay with Maud but, as she and David begin to bond, she changes her mind. Lena moves back home to Bordeaux but David asks her to move in with him. He then takes Amanda to London to meet his estranged mother Alison, and to visit
Wimbledon
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* Wimbledon Championships, the oldest tennis tournament in the world and one of the four Grand Slam championships
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Places London
* ...
. As their relationship deepens, David decides to become Amanda’s guardian and to adopt her.
Cast
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Vincent Lacoste
Vincent Lacoste (born 3 July 1993) is a French actor. He began his acting career at the age of fifteen, playing the lead role of Hervé in the film ''The French Kissers''. The role won him the Lumières Award for Most Promising Actor and a nomin ...
as David
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Stacy Martin
Stacy Martin (born 20 March 1990) is a French actress. Her breakthrough role was playing Joe as a young woman in Lars von Trier's 2013 drama film ''Nymphomaniac''.
Early life
Martin was born in Paris, where she spent her early childhood. She m ...
as Léna
* as Amanda
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Ophélia Kolb as Sandrine
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Marianne Basler
Marianne Basler (born 9 March 1964) is a French actress. She appeared in more than eighty films since 1980.
Selected filmography
References
External links
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1964 births
Living people
French film actresses
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as Maud
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Jonathan Cohen as Axel
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Greta Scacchi
Greta Scacchi, OMRI (; born 18 February 1960) is an Italian-Australian actress. She holds dual Italian and Australian citizenship. She is best known for her roles in the films '' White Mischief'' (1987), '' Presumed Innocent'' (1990), '' The Pl ...
as Alison
* as the children's home director
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Nabiha Akkari as Raja
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Raphaël Thiéry as Moïse
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Claire Tran
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as Lydia
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Elli Medeiros
Elli Medeiros (born 18 January 1956) is a Uruguayan-French singer and actress.
Career
Stinky Toys
Originally from Uruguay, Medeiros moved to Paris, France, at the age of 14, dropped out of high school a couple of years later and joined the ...
as Eve
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Zoé Bruneau as the social worker
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Lily Bensliman as the journalist at the café
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Lawrence Valin as the Indian father
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Missia Piccoli as the mother at the lycée
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David Olivier Fischer
David (; , "beloved one") (traditional spelling), , ''Dāwūd''; grc-koi, Δαυΐδ, Dauíd; la, Davidus, David; gez , ዳዊት, ''Dawit''; xcl, Դաւիթ, ''Dawitʿ''; cu, Давíдъ, ''Davidŭ''; possibly meaning "beloved one". w ...
as the father at the lycée
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Luke Tristan
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* Luke (surname) (including a list of people and characters with the name)
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as the man beside the Thames
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Jeanne Candel
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* Joan of Arc (Jeanne d'Arc, 1412–1431)
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* Joan, Duchess of Brittany (1319–1384)
* Ruth Stuber Jeanne (1910–2004), Amer ...
as the first young woman in the hospital
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Lisa Wisznia Lisa or LISA may refer to:
People
People with the mononym
* Lisa Lisa (born 1967), American actress and lead singer of the Cult Jam
* Lisa (Japanese musician, born 1974), stylized "LISA", Japanese singer and producer
* Lisa Komine (born 1978), ...
as the second young woman in the hospital
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Léah Lapiower as Emmanuelle
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Carole Rochet Carole is a feminine given name (see Carl for more information) and occasionally a surname.
Carole may refer to:
Given name
* Carole B. Balin (born 1964), American Reform rabbi, professor of Jewish history
*Carole Bayer Sager (born 1947), Ameri ...
as the guardian at the school
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Christopher Koderisch
Christopher Koderisch (born 25 November 1984) is a German former professional tennis player.
Koderisch, known as "Toto", comes from the North Rhine-Westphalia town of Lemgo and trained out of Halle, turning professional in 2003 after graduating h ...
as a tennis player
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Lannart Zynga as a tennis player
References
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2018 films
2010s French-language films
2018 drama films
French drama films
2010s French films
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