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Driving Madeleine

Driving Madeleine (French: Une belle course) is a 2022 French-Belgian drama film directed by Christian Carion.[2]

Driving Madeleine
FrenchUne belle course
Directed byChristian Carion
Written by
  • Christian Carion
  • Cyril Gély
Produced by
  • Christian Carion
  • Laure Irrmann
Starring
CinematographyPierre Cottereau
Edited byLoïc Lallemand
Music byPhilippe Rombi
Production
companies
Distributed byPathé
Release dates
  • 23 August 2022 (2022-08-23) (FFA)
  • 21 September 2022 (2022-09-21) (France)
Running time
91 minutes
Countries
  • France
  • Belgium
LanguageFrench
Box office$5.5 million[1]

Premise

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The film stars Line Renaud as Madeleine, an elderly Parisian woman, who is moving into a nursing home; en route, she asks taxi driver Charles (Dany Boon) to detour to various locations around the city that have meant something to her in her life.

Cast

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  • Line Renaud as Madeleine
  • Dany Boon as Charles
  • Alice Isaaz as Young Madeleine
  • Jérémie Laheurte as Ray
  • Gwendoline Hamon as Denise
  • Julie Delarme as Karine
  • Thomas Alden as Mathieu
  • Hadriel Roure as Young Mathieu

Production

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The film entered production in mid-2021.[3]

Release

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The film premiered on 23 August 2022 at the Angoulême Francophone Film Festival.[4] It was also screened as a special presentation at the 2022 Toronto International Film Festival,[5] before going into commercial release on 21 September. The film was released theatrically in the United States on 12 January 2024 by Cohen Media Group.

Reception

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On the review aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes, 94% of 49 critics' reviews are positive, with an average rating of 7.3/10. The website's consensus reads: "Fueled by the sparkling chemistry between Line Renaud and Dany Boon, Driving Madeleine proves a sweetly sentimental drama that deftly tugs the heartstrings."[6] Metacritic, which uses a weighted average, assigned the film a score of 65 out of 100, based on 7 critics, indicating "generally favorable" reviews.[7]

Renaud won the Tiantan Award for Best Actress at the 2023 Beijing International Film Festival,[8] where the film was one of the 15 shortlisted films competing for the festival's 10 Tiantan Awards.[9][10] Driving Madeleine was nominated for the Japan Academy Film Prize for Outstanding Foreign Language Film at the 47th Japan Academy Film Prize ceremony.[11][12][13]

References

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  1. ^ "Driving Madeleine (2022)". Box Office Mojo. IMDb. Retrieved 18 February 2024.
  2. ^ "Line Renaud et Dany Boon à nouveau réunis dans un film qui sortira en septembre". La Voix du Nord. 20 June 2022. Archived from the original on 10 August 2022. Retrieved 10 August 2022.
  3. ^ "Premier clap pour les retrouvailles de Line Renaud et Dany Boon au cinéma". La Voix du Nord. 28 May 2021. Archived from the original on 10 August 2022. Retrieved 10 August 2022.
  4. ^ Baronnet, Brigitte (6 July 2022). "Festival Angoulême 2022 : Dany Boon et Line Renaud en ouverture et plus de 50 films francophones à découvrir". AlloCiné. Archived from the original on 7 July 2022. Retrieved 10 August 2022.
  5. ^ Kay, Jeremy (28 July 2022). "Stephen Frears, Jessica Chastain, Jennifer Lawrence films among Toronto galas, special presentations". Screen Daily. Archived from the original on 28 July 2022. Retrieved 10 August 2022.
  6. ^ "Driving Madeleine". Rotten Tomatoes. Fandango Media. Retrieved 20 October 2024.  
  7. ^ "Driving Madeleine". Metacritic. Fandom, Inc. Retrieved 20 October 2024.
  8. ^ Frater, Patrick (1 May 2023). "The Punishment Wins Beijing Film Festival's Top Award, as Shadowless Tower Takes Five Prizes – Global Bulletin". Variety. Archived from the original on 29 June 2023. Retrieved 20 October 2024.
  9. ^ Fan, Xu (29 April 2023). "Beijing film festival announced Tiantan Award winners". China Daily. Archived from the original on 21 September 2023. Retrieved 20 October 2024.
  10. ^ Rui, Zhang (11 April 2023). "Beijing International Film Festival reveals jury lineup". China Internet Information Center. Archived from the original on 21 July 2023. Retrieved 20 October 2024.
  11. ^ Barsanti, Sam (10 March 2024). "Godzilla Minus One crushed everybody at the Japanese Academy Awards". AV Club. Archived from the original on 10 March 2024. Retrieved 20 October 2024.
  12. ^ Cho, Suzie (12 March 2024). "The 47th Japan Academy Film Prize Announces Winners, Godzilla Minus One wins Eight Awards including Best Picture". Asian Movie Pulse. Archived from the original on 30 May 2024. Retrieved 20 October 2024.
  13. ^ "【日本アカデミー賞】『ゴジラ-1.0』最優秀作品賞含む最多8冠【受賞者・作品一覧】" [[Japan Academy Prize] Godzilla Minus One Won a Total of 8 Awards, Including Best Picture [List of Award Winners and Works]]. Oricon News (in Japanese). 8 March 2024. Archived from the original on 12 March 2024. Retrieved 20 October 2024.
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