Looking for Hortense

Looking for Hortense

When you're looking for someone, you've got to find yourself first.

2012•1h 40m•5.5/10

DramaComedy

Ratings

🎬TMDb

5.5/10(66)

Damien is a professor of Chinese civilization who lives with his wife, Iva, a theater director, and their son Noé. Their love is mired in a mountain of routine and disenchantment. To help keep Zorica from getting deported, Iva gets Damien to promise he’ll go to his father, a state department official, for help. But Damien and his father have a distant and cool relationship. And this mission is a risky business which will send Damien spiraling downward and over the edge...

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Production

SBS Productions

Language

FR

Status

Released

Release Date

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Cast

Jean-Pierre Bacri

Jean-Pierre Bacri

Damien

Kristin Scott Thomas

Kristin Scott Thomas

Iva

Isabelle Carré

Isabelle Carré

Aurore

Marin Orcand Tourres

Marin Orcand Tourres

Noé

Arthur Igual

Arthur Igual

Antoine

Jackie Berroyer

Jackie Berroyer

Lobatch

Masahiro Kashiwagi

Satoshi

Jérôme Beaujour

Campuche

Benoît Jacquot

Benoît Jacquot

Kévadian

Iliana Lolic

Iliana Lolic

Vera

Francis Leplay

Francis Leplay

Marco

Philippe Duclos

Philippe Duclos

Henri H

Joséphine Derenne

Joséphine Derenne

Blandine Hauer

Agathe Bonitzer

Agathe Bonitzer

Laetitia

Francis Veron

Le Policier n°2

Georges Martin Censier

Le PDG

Stanislas Stanic

Stanislas Stanic

Marek

Jean-Laurent Bourel

Le chef de rang La Sirène

Angeli Hucher de Barros

Le Chauffeur de taxi

Claude Rich

Claude Rich

Sébastien Hauer

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