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Looking for Hortense

Looking for Hortense

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Status

Released

Release Date

Sep 5, 2012

Runtime

1h 40m

Genres

Drama, Comedy

User Score

55%

Original Title

Cherchez Hortense

Production Companies

SBS Productions

Director

Pascal Bonitzer

Description

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...