''Going South'' (french: Plein sud) is a 2009 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

Sébastien Lifshitz Sébastien Lifshitz (born 21 January 1968) is a French screenwriter and director. He teaches at La Fémis, a school that focuses on the subject of image and sound. He studied at the École du Louvre, and has a bachelor's degree from the Universit ...

and written by Lifshitz,

Stéphane Bouquet Stephane Bouquet (born 1968) is a French writer, screenwriter and critic. Filmography As screenwriter * 1996 : '' Il faut que je l'aime'' * 1998 : '' Les Corps ouverts'' * 1999 : '' Les Terres froides'' * 2000 : ''Presque rien'' * 2001 : '' La ...

and Vincent Poymiro. It stars

Yannick Renier Yannick Renier (born 29 March 1975) is a Belgian actor who started his career in the theatre in the 1990s and has since appeared in several films and television productions. Life and career Renier trained at the Conservatoire Royal in Brussels ...

Léa Seydoux Léa Hélène Seydoux-Fornier de Clausonne (; born 1 July 1985) is a French actor. Known for her roles in both French cinema and in Hollywood she's received various accolades including the Cannes Film Festival's Trophée Chopard in 2009 as wel ...

, Nicole Garcia, Théo Frilet and Pierre Perrier. It was screened in the Panorama section at the Berlinale 2010.

Cast

as Sam *

as Léa * Nicole Garcia as The mother * Théo Frilet as Mathieu * Pierre Perrier as Jérémie *

Micheline Presle Micheline Presle (; born Micheline Nicole Julia Émilienne Chassagne; 22 August 1922) is a French actress. She was sometimes billed as Micheline Prelle. Starting in 1939, she starred in over 50 French and English language films that were made in H ...

as The grandmother *

Gérard Watkins Gérard Watkins (born 4 July 1965) is an English-French actor, playwright, director, and songwriter. He graduated from Lycée de St Germain en Laye in 1983. As a stage actor, he has performed in over forty productions in Paris with such directo ...

as The father * Marie Matheron as The foster mother

References

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