, director = Guillaume Nicloux , producer = Frédéric Bourboulon
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Étienne Comar , writer = Guillaume Nicloux
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Marie Gillain
Vanessa Paradis

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Jean Rochefort
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, studio = Les Films de la Suane , released = , runtime = 115 minutes , country = France , language = French , budget = $6.3 million , gross = $3.4 million ''The Key'' (french: La Clef) is a 2007 French thriller film directed by Guillaume Nicloux.

Plot

Eric Vincent is in his thirties and lives an uneventful life with his wife Audrey. They are talking about having a child. Eric is contacted by a friend of his biological father he never knew about the latter's death. Eric can come and collect his father's ashes. He is reluctant but then accepts.

Cast

* Guillaume Canet as Éric Vincent * Marie Gillain as Audrey * Vanessa Paradis as Cécile *

as Michèle Varin *

as François Maneri * Jean Rochefort as Joseph Arp * Françoise Lebrun as Florence Arp * Maria Schneider as Solange *

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as Jean * Marina de Van as Sophie *

Yves Verhoeven Yves Verhoeven (born 27 October 1961) is a French actor. He has appeared in more than eighty films since 1989. Selected filmography References External links * 1961 births Living people French male film actors People from Seine-Mar ...

as Pujol * Laure Marsac as Florence * Michaël Abiteboul as Thierry * Gilles Cohen as Larue * Hélène Alexandridis as Muriel * Jean-Louis Coulloc'h as Worzik * Nicolas Jouhet as Ariel Bessy * Sylvain Creuzevault as Greg * Luc Schwarz as Luc * Mathieu Nicourt as Christophe * Martial Bezot as Simon *

Olivier Rabourdin Olivier Rabourdin (born 3 March 1959) is a French film actor. He has appeared in more than seventy films since 1985. In 2010 he was nominated for a French César Award in the category of Best Supporting Actor (Meilleur acteur dans un second rôle) ...

as The tattooist

Production

''The Key'' closes the dark and complex detective trilogy of William Nicloux. We find in this film, in supporting roles populating the parallel plots that Eric Vincent ( Guillaume Canet), the characters of François Maneri (

), the investigator of a private matter, ''Une affaire privée'', and Michèle Varin (

), the police captain in That Woman, the second part.

References

External links

* 2007 films 2007 thriller films Films directed by Guillaume Nicloux French thriller films 2000s French-language films 2000s French films {{2000s-thriller-film-stub