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- Agora Films
- 1 h 43 m
- Agora Films
- 1 h 43 m
Summary The mayor of Lyon is in existential crisis. After 30 years in politics, he feels totally empty and devoid of ideas. As a fix for this problem, his aides bring a brilliant young philosopher, into his inner circle.
Directed By: Nicolas Pariser
Written By: Nicolas Pariser
- Agora Films
- 1 h 43 m
- Agora Films
- 1 h 43 m
Alice and the Mayor
Metascore
Mixed or Average
51
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Summary The mayor of Lyon is in existential crisis. After 30 years in politics, he feels totally empty and devoid of ideas. As a fix for this problem, his aides bring a brilliant young philosopher, into his inner circle.
Directed By: Nicolas Pariser
Written By: Nicolas Pariser
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Metascore
Mixed or Average
Based on 4 Critic Reviews
51
25% Positive
1 Review
1 Review
75% Mixed
3 Reviews
3 Reviews
0% Negative
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Metascore
Mixed or Average
Based on 4 Critic Reviews
51
25% Positive
1 Review
1 Review
75% Mixed
3 Reviews
3 Reviews
0% Negative
0 Reviews
0 Reviews
A lively, funny and touching exploration of the way we live now through the filter of two generations.
Alice and the Mayor isn’t bad, per se; it’s just routine. Not radical enough to be the political call to action that it so desperately wants to be, and not fully developed enough to the character study that it eventually reverts back to, it’s a strange hybrid of a film, with the two disparate sections never really working in conjunction.
A movie so enamored by its self-perception of cleverness that even policy wonks will find it hard to muster enthusiasm.
While the rapport between the middle-aged Paul and the thirtyish Alice is a fascinating give-and-take — they are essentially equals because one’s lack of experience is compensated for by the other’s lack of ideas — there is no real room for either to grow or be transformed. Their relationship, while full of exchanges, is finally quite stagnant.
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Production Company
Bizibi,
Arte France Cinéma,
Auvergne Rhône-Alpes Cinéma,
Scope Pictures,
Les Films du 10,
Canal+,
Ciné+,
Cofinova 15,
Cinécap 12,
Cinéventure 4,
SG Image 2017,
Cinémage 13,
Centre national du cinéma et de l'image animée (CNC),
Society of Authors, Composers and Publishers of Music (SACEM)
Duration 1 h 43 m
Awards
Lumiere Awards, France
• 3 Nominations
Cannes Film Festival
• 1 Win & 1 Nomination
César Awards, France
• 1 Win & 1 Nomination
