''One Wild Moment'' (French title: ''Un moment d'égarement'') is a 2015 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
Jean-François Richet
Jean-François Richet (born 1966) is a French screenwriter, director, and producer. He grew up in Meaux, a suburb east of Paris.
Select filmography
* ''Inner City'' (1995) – named at the César Awards 1996 in the Best Debut category.
* ''Ma ...
. It is a remake of the 1977 film ''Un moment d'égarement'', directed by
Claude Berri
Claude Berri (; 1 July 1934 – 12 January 2009) was a French film director, writer, producer, actor and distributor.
Early life
Born Claude Beri Langmann in Paris, Berri was the son of Jewish immigrant parents. His mother, Beila (née Bercu), w ...
. It stars
Vincent Cassel
Vincent Cassel (; ; born 23 November 1966) is a French actor.
He first achieved recognition for his performance as a troubled History of the Jews in France, French Jewish youth in Mathieu Kassovitz's 1995 film ''La Haine (Hate)'', for which he ...
,
François Cluzet
François Cluzet (born 21 September 1955) is a French film and theatre actor. Cluzet has collaborated with many important European and American directors, including Claude Chabrol, Bertrand Tavernier, Claire Denis, Agnieszka Holland, Robert Altm ...
,
Alice Isaaz
Alice Isaaz (born 26 July 1991) is a French actress. She is known for her roles in the films '' The Gilded Cage'' (2013), '' La Crème de la crème'' (2014) and ''Les Yeux jaunes des crocodiles
''Les Yeux jaunes des crocodiles'' ( en, The Yello ...
and
Lola Le Lann
Lola Le Lann (born 9 February 1996) is a French actress and singer-songwriter. She is known for her roles in ''One Wild Moment (2015)'', '' A Bluebird in My Heart (2018)'' and '' Versus (2019).''
Early life
She is the daughter of jazz trumpeter, ...
on film debut.
The film was produced by Berri's son,
Thomas Langmann
Thomas Langmann (born 24 May 1971) is a French film producer and actor, known for producing '' The Artist'' (2011), for which he received an Academy Award for Best Picture as producer in 2012.
Career
Langmann began his career as an actor in his ...
, and Sébastien Delloye.
Plot
Antoine, a hot-tempered Corsican with old-fashioned ideas about women, returns to the isolated old family home on the island for a summer holiday with his 17-year-old daughter Louna but without his wife. Instead, he takes his old friend Laurent, who is divorced, with his 18-year-old daughter Marie, who is good friends with Louna.
While the two men are looking forward to nice relaxing days in the country, the two girls want all-night fun in discos. Louna, instead of passing encounters with boys of her age, dreams of a grand romance with a real man and sets her sights on Laurent. He succumbs after both have been drinking and she goes for a midnight swim naked. (Antoine, it is revealed later, was equally busy with an attractive lady from a pancake stall).
Realizing his guilt towards Louna, to her parents, and to his infuriated daughter, Laurent tries to stop the relationship going any further, but Louna's ardour only increases. When she is finally kicked out of his bedroom, she tells her father she has been seeing an older man but refuses to name him. Antoine goes berserk and, loading a shotgun, insists that Laurent help him find the rat who has ruined his daughter. After Antoine has beaten up a gay DJ, Laurent realizes he will have to confess.
This he does while the two men are alone in the woods hunting wild boar. The two girls, who have made up when Louna stopped sleeping with Laurent, return at dawn from a disco to find their fathers battered and bruised but relaxed.
Cast
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Vincent Cassel
Vincent Cassel (; ; born 23 November 1966) is a French actor.
He first achieved recognition for his performance as a troubled History of the Jews in France, French Jewish youth in Mathieu Kassovitz's 1995 film ''La Haine (Hate)'', for which he ...
as Laurent
*
François Cluzet
François Cluzet (born 21 September 1955) is a French film and theatre actor. Cluzet has collaborated with many important European and American directors, including Claude Chabrol, Bertrand Tavernier, Claire Denis, Agnieszka Holland, Robert Altm ...
as Antoine
*
Alice Isaaz
Alice Isaaz (born 26 July 1991) is a French actress. She is known for her roles in the films '' The Gilded Cage'' (2013), '' La Crème de la crème'' (2014) and ''Les Yeux jaunes des crocodiles
''Les Yeux jaunes des crocodiles'' ( en, The Yello ...
as Marie
*
Lola Le Lann
Lola Le Lann (born 9 February 1996) is a French actress and singer-songwriter. She is known for her roles in ''One Wild Moment (2015)'', '' A Bluebird in My Heart (2018)'' and '' Versus (2019).''
Early life
She is the daughter of jazz trumpeter, ...
as Louna
*
Annelise Hesme
Annelise Hesme (born 11 May 1976) is a French actress. Her older sister Élodie Hesme and younger sister Clotilde Hesme are also actresses.
Born in Beaumont, Puy-de-Dôme, Auvergne, France.
Hesme has appeared in many films such as '' Tanguy' ...
as Sylvie
*
Noémie Merlant
Noémie Merlant (; born 27 November 1988) is a French actress and director. She has been nominated for her performances twice at the César Awards, including a nomination for her breakout role in ''Portrait of a Lady on Fire''.
Career
Merlant w ...
as Linda
*
Philippe Nahon
Philippe Nahon (; 24 December 1938 – 19 April 2020) was a French actor.
Best known films
Nahon was best known for his roles in French horror and thriller films, including '' I Stand Alone'', '' Humains'', '' Calvaire'', ''The Pack'' and ''H ...
as Antoine's neighbor
See also
* ''
Blame It on Rio
''Blame It on Rio'' is a 1984 American romantic comedy film directed by Stanley Donen and written by Charlie Peters and Larry Gelbart based on the 1977 French film ''Un moment d'égarement'', starring an ensemble cast led by Michael Caine, Joseph ...
'' - The American remake of ''Un moment d'égarement'' (1977)
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2015 films
2015 comedy-drama films
2010s French-language films
French comedy-drama films
Remakes of French films
Films directed by Jean-François Richet
Films about vacationing
Films set in Corsica
Films produced by Thomas Langmann
2010s French films
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