The Conquest
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  • Summary: The day is May 6, 2007, France’s run-up to the presidential elections. As the French people are getting ready to go to the polls to elect their new president, presidential candidate Nicolas Sarkozy has shut himself away in his home. Though Sarkozy soon knows he has won the election, he is alalone, gloomy and despondent. For hours he has been trying to reach his wife, Cécilia but to no avail. The last five years unfurl before our eyes, recounting Sarkozy’s unstoppable ascent, riddled with in-party backstabbing, media manipulation, riots, sarcastic confrontations and extra-marital affairs. The Conquest chronicles the volatile right-leaning Sarkozy’s startling rise to become President of France and the emotional and psychological stakes involved in the conquest of power. On the day the diminutive Sarkozy conquered his ultimate ambition, his wife—who for twenty years had struggled to pull the man she loved from the shadow into the light—walked out on him for another man. (Music Box Films)
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  1. Positive: 6 out of 14
  2. Mixed: 8 out of 14
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  1. Los Angeles Times
    Reviewed by: Kenneth Turan
    Nov 10, 2011
    80
    A smart, involving and strikingly adult drama about Sarkozy's rise to power.
  2. The Hollywood Reporter
    Reviewed by: Jordan Mintzer
    Nov 7, 2011
    60
    An amusing yet lightweight political farce.
  3. Chicago Reader
    Reviewed by: J.R. Jones
    Jan 5, 2012
    60
    This French biopic of Nicolas Sarkozy plays like a competent TV miniseries, moving briskly and focusing on the hustle and bustle of electoral politics as the protagonist climbs toward the presidency.
  4. Time Out New York
    Reviewed by: David Fear
    Nov 8, 2011
    60
    A drama about the dirty business of gaining power, it needs bared fangs - and more bite.

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