''Invisibles'' (french: Les Invisibles) is a 2018 French
comedy-drama film
Comedy drama, also known by the portmanteau ''dramedy'', is a genre of dramatic works that combines elements of comedy and drama. The modern, scripted-television examples tend to have more humorous bits than simple comic relief seen in a typical ...
directed by
Louis-Julien Petit, based on the 2015 novel ''Sur la Route des Invisibles, Femmes Dans La Rue'' by
Claire Lajeunie.
The film premiered at the 2018
Angoulême Film Festival and was released on 9 January 2019, to generally positive reviews.
Plot
L'Envol, a
day center for homeless women in
, France, closes its doors: only 4% of the women who've been there have been reintegrated, which the city council considers to be insufficient. The civil workers decide to protest against these measures through
civil disobedience and the secret installment of a therapeutic workshop and a sleeping hall in a squatter's home...
Cast
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Audrey Lamy
Audrey Lamy (; born 19 January 1981) is a French actress. She is the sister of the actress Alexandra Lamy.
Personal life
Audrey Lamy is Alexandra Lamy's younger sister.
Since 2008, Audrey is in a relationship with Thomas.
Filmography
Feat ...
as Audrey Scapio
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Corinne Masiero
Corinne Masiero (born 3 February 1964) is a French actress. She was born in Douai. She began acting in her late 20s, initially appearing in the theatre before moving on to the screen. She is best known for her lead role in the 2012 film '' Louise ...
as Manu
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Noémie Lvovsky
Noémie Lvovsky (; born 14 December 1964) is a French film director, screenwriter, and actress.
Life and career
Born in Paris in 1964, Lvovsky is the daughter of Jewish parents who emigrated from Ukraine to flee pogroms.
She studied cinema at L ...
as Hélène
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Déborah Lukumuena
Déborah Lukumuena (born 4 December 1994) is a French actress. She is best known for her debut role in the 2016 drama film ''Divines'', for which she won the César Award for Best Supporting Actress.
Career
In 2017, Déborah Lukumuena won the C ...
as Angélique
* Marianne Garcia as Marianne / '
Lady Di'
* Adolpha Van Meerhaeghe as Chantal
* Patricia Mouchon as Patricia / '
Edith Piaf
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* Khoukha Boukherbache as Khoukha / '
Marie-José Nat
Marie-José Benhalassa (22 April 1940 – 10 October 2019), known professionally as Marie-José Nat, was a French actress. Among her notable works in cinema were the sequel films '' Anatomy of a Marriage: My Days with Jean-Marc'' and '' Anatomy ...
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* Bérangère Toural as Bérangère / '
Simone Veil
Simone Veil (; ; 13 July 1927 – 30 June 2017) was a French magistrate and politician who served as Health Minister in several governments and was President of the European Parliament from 1979 to 1982, the first woman to hold that office. ...
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* Patricia Guery as Patricia / '
La Cicciolina'
* Marie-Christine Descheemaker as Marie-Christine / '
Brigitte Macron
Brigitte Marie-Claude Macron (; née Brigitte Trogneux , previously Auzière ; born 13 April 1953) is a French former educator. She is the wife and former teacher of Emmanuel Macron, who is the current President of France and Co-Prince of Andorra ...
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* Laetitia Grigy as Monique
* Fedoua Laafou as Fedoua / '
Salma Hayek
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* Stéphanie Brayer as Stéphanie / '
Françoise Hardy
Françoise Madeleine Hardy (; born 17 January 1944) is a French former singer and songwriter. Mainly known for singing melancholic sentimental ballads, Hardy has been an important figure in French pop music since her debut, spanning a career o ...
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* Marie-Thérèse Boloke Kanda as Marie-Thérèse / '
Mimie Mathy
Mimie Mathy (8 July 1957) is a French actress, comedian and singer who is best known for her starring role in the long-running ''Josephine, Guardian Angel'' television series. Mathy has achondroplasia, a form of dwarfism, and is tall.
Life and ...
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* Aïcha Bangoura as Aïcha / '
Vanessa Paradis
Vanessa Chantal Paradis (; born 22 December 1972) is a French singer, model, and actress. Paradis became a child star at the age of 14 with the international success of her single "Joe le taxi" (1987). At age 18, she was awarded France's hig ...
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* Dominique Manet as Dominique / '
Brigitte Fontaine
Brigitte Fontaine, (born 24 June 1939) is a singer of avant-garde music. She has employed numerous unusual musical styles, melding rock and roll, folk, jazz, electronica, spoken word poetry, and world. She has collaborated with Stereolab, Mic ...
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* Assia Menmadala as Assia / '
Dalida
Iolanda Cristina Gigliotti (; 17 January 1933 – 3 May 1987), professionally known as Dalida, was an Italian-French singer and actress born in Egypt. She sang in eleven languages and sold millions of records internationally. Her best known son ...
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Sarah Suco
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Filmography
Sarah is also a director. She's released The Dazzled (Les Éblouis
Th ...
as Julie Carpentier
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Pablo Pauly as Dimitri
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Brigitte Sy
Brigitte Sy (born 26 January 1956) is a French actress and filmmaker. Her directorial film debut, ''Les Mains libres'', was released in 2010 to critical acclaim in France.
Life and career
She is the mother of the actors Louis Garrel and Esther ...
as Béatrice
* Quentin Faure as Laurent
* Marie-Christine Orry as Catherine Paraire
* Fatsah Bouyahmed as Esteban
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Antoine Reinartz
Antoine Reinartz (; born 1985) is a French actor.
Theater
Selected filmography
References
External links
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1985 births
Living people
French male film actors
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as Deputy mayor
Release
The film had its world premiere at the
Angoulême Film Festival on 22 August 2018
and was released in theaters on 9 January 2019.
Reception
Box office
''Invisibles'' grossed $0 in North America
and $19 million worldwide.
Critical response
On French
review aggregator
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AlloCiné, the film holds an average rating of 3.6 out of 5, based on 25 professional reviews.
References
External links
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Casting complet et équipe techniqueat
AlloCiné (in French)
{{DEFAULTSORT:Invisibles
2018 films
2018 comedy-drama films
2010s French-language films
French comedy-drama films
French feminist films
Unemployment in fiction
Films shot in France
Films set in France
Cultural depictions of Diana, Princess of Wales
Cultural depictions of Édith Piaf
Cultural depictions of Ilona Staller
Cultural depictions of Dalida
2010s French films