In the Name of My Daughter (2014)

Original title

L'Homme qu'on aimait trop

Directed by

André Téchiné

Genre

drama film, trial film

Country

France

Runtime

1h 56m

Rated

R18+

Rating

5.6 of 10 from 95 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A woman becomes entangled in a casino ownership dispute on the French Riviera. The story follows her relationship with a charismatic lawyer and the dangerous power games that surround them.

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What happens

In the Name of My Daughter (French: L'Homme qu'on aimait trop; also known as French Riviera) is a 2014 French drama film directed by André Téchiné and starring Catherine Deneuve, Guillaume Canet and Adèle Haenel. The script was based on the memoir, Une femme face à la Mafia, written by Renée Le Roux and her son Jean-Charles Le Roux. It retraces the Agnès Le Roux case, which made headlines in France from the late 1970s to the 2010s. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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