''Crash Test Aglaé'' is a 2017 French

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directed and written by Éric Gravel.

Plot

Aglaé (

India Hair India Hair (born 1987) is a French actress. Early life Hair was born in Saumur a town in western France, to an American father and an English mother. She graduated from the regional conservatory of Nantes in 2007 and the Conservatoire national ...

) is a rigidly work-obsessed young

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technician with obsessive-compulsive disorder whose whole world is her work, apart from her adoration of the game of

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. But then the French factory where she works is closed because the work can be done cheaper in India. Aglaé and two colleagues – Liette (

Julie Depardieu Julie Marion Depardieu (born 18 June 1973) is a French actress who has appeared in a number of successful films. Early life Born 18 June 1973 in Boulogne-Billancourt, she is the daughter of Gérard and Élisabeth Depardieu and the sister of the ...

) and Marcelle (

Yolande Moreau Yolande Moreau (born 27 February 1953) is a Belgian comedian, actress, film director and screenwriter. She has won three César Awards from four nominations. Career She made her cinematic debut with director Agnès Varda in two movies: Sept pi� ...

) – decide to accept the company's not-very-serious offer of relocation, and set out from rural France for India in Marcelle's dreadful old jalopy, a quirky journey that ends up as an unlikely personal voyage.

Cast

as Aglaé Lanctot *

as Liette *

as Marcelle *

Anne Charrier Anne Charrier is a French actress, who is credited with 7 films and 22 TV productions between 2000 and 2009. Career She is best known for her lead role in the film '' Paid'', made in 2006, where she played a French call girl from Netherlands. ...

as The HRD * Frédérique Bel as Lola *

Tristán Ulloa Tristán Ulloa (born 6 May 1970) is a Spanish actor, writer, and director. Career Tristán Ulloa was born in Orléans, France, and soon moved to Madrid, Spain, where he spent his early childhood. At age 12, he moved to Vigo, Galicia. His mother, ...

as Clovis *

Adil Hussain Khandkar Mohammad Adil Hussain (; born 5 October 1963) is an Indian actor who is known for his work in several Indian independent and mainstream film productions, as well as international cinema, in films such as '' The Reluctant Fundamentali ...

as Shankar *

Hanns Zischler Hanns Zischler (born 18 June 1947) is a German actor known for his cooperation with Wim Wenders's early films especially ''Kings of the Road'' (1976). Later he became an international star with his portrayal of Hans in Steven Spielberg's film ''M ...

as Friedrich Fürstenberg

Production

The movie is shot in

Conflans-Sainte-Honorine Conflans-Sainte-Honorine () is a commune in the Yvelines department in the Île-de-France region in north-central France. It is located in the northwestern suburbs of Paris, from the center of Paris. The commune was originally named for its g ...

Île-de-France The Île-de-France (; ; ) is the most populous of the eighteen regions of France, with an official estimated population of 12,271,794 residents on 1 January 2023. Centered on the capital Paris, it is located in the north-central part of the cou ...

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and

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. Shooting started on 4 September 2015 and ended on 25 November 2015.

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