Louise-Michel

fiction / 2008 / France / col. / 94 min.

Director: Benoît Delépine, Gustave Kervern
Screenplay: Benoît Delépine, Gustave Kervern
Photography: Hugues Poulain
Editor: Stéphane Elmadjian
Music: Gaëtan Roussel
Cast: Yolande Moreau, Bouli Lanners, Benoît Poelvoorde, Yannick Jaulin, Albert Dupontel, Mathieu Kassovitz, Philippe Katerine, Francis Kuntz, Benoît Delépine, Gustave Kervern

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Louise is a grumpy and reclusive worker in a factory for women workers in Picardie. One day, the leadership treacherously abandons the factory, and the women decide to put together their redundancy payments and finally do something radical – they hire a killer to avenge them. The broody Louise doesn’t believe in labor unions; she believes in a well-directed hit. She seeks out Michel, a hitman with a shady reputation, and together they set out on a revenge journey full of bizarre twists and false culprits, which will result in a final moment of satisfaction. As one twist follows another, a crazy farce (in the best sense of the word) with a slightly anarchist mood leads to a long-desired vendetta.