The French Minister 2013 123movies

Watch: Quai d’Orsay 2013 123movies, Full Movie Online – Alexandre Taillard de Vorms is tall and impressive, a man with style, attractive to women. He also happens to be the Minister of Foreign Affairs for the land of enlightenment: France. With his silver mane and tanned, athletic body, he stalks the world stage, from the floor of the United Nations in New York to the powder keg of Oubanga. There, he calls on the powerful and invokes the mighty to bring peace, to calm the trigger-happy, and to cement his aura of Nobel Peace Prize winner-in-waiting. Alexandre Taillard de Vorms is a force to be reckoned with, waging his own war backed up by the holy trinity of diplomatic concepts: legitimacy, lucidity and efficacy. He takes on American neo-cons, corrupt Russians and money-grabbing Chinese. Perhaps the world doesn’t deserve France’s magnanimousness, but his art would be wasted if just restricted to home turf. Enter the young Arthur Vlaminck, graduate of the elite National School of Administration, who is hired as head of “language” at the foreign ministry. In other words, he is to write the minister’s speeches. But he also has to learn to deal with the sensibilities of the boss and his entourage, and find his way between the private secretary and the special advisers who stalk the corridors of the Quai d’Orsay – the ministry’s home – where stress, ambition and dirty dealing are the daily currency. But just as he thinks he can influence the fate of the world, everything seems threatened by the inertia of the technocrats..
Plot: Alexandre Taillard de Vorms is a force to be reckoned with. With his silver mane and tanned, athletic body, he stalks the world stage as Minister of Foreign Affairs for France, waging his own war backed up by the holy trinity of diplomatic concepts: legitimacy, lucidity, and efficacy. Enter Arthur Vlaminck. Hired to write the minister’s speeches, Arthur must contend with the sensibilities of his boss and the dirty dealings within the Quai d’Orsay, the ministry’s home.
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Ratings:

	6.4/10 Votes: 3,722
	62% | RottenTomatoes
	65/100 | MetaCritic
	N/A Votes: 250 Popularity: 5.979 | TMDB

Reviews:

A sparkling, if occasionally forced, farce anchored by a larger-than-life central performance.
Anyone who’s been confounded by bureaucracy at work will know that it’s no laughing matter. Indeed, it can be the most frustrating thing in the world when an obvious solution presents itself, but red tape or bungling co-workers insist on getting in the way. It’s a lot funnier when someone else is suffering the quiet ignominy of office politics, however, as evidenced by sparkling – if occasionally tedious – French political farce Quai D’Orsay (The French Minister).

The last thing Arthur Vlaminck (Raphaël Personnaz) expects is to get a phone call summoning him to an interview at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs (known colloquially as Quai D’Orsay due to its location on the left bank of the Seine). He meets Minister Alexandre Taillard de Worms (Thierry Lhermitte) in a whirlwind interview, and is sufficiently impressed to agree to join the ministry as a speechwriter. As he meets his new co-workers, including the Minister’s long-suffering chief-of-staff, Claude (Niels Arestrup), Arthur begins to realise that his boss’ public persona might not quite reflect his private concerns or capabilities.

Anyone anticipating a grave, serious-minded look at the intricacies of French diplomacy should take note – Quai D’Orsay is really a raucous workplace comedy that happens to take place in the hallowed halls of the French Foreign Ministry. It’s not that foreign affairs and public policy don’t feature – they do. There’s a ring of veracity to the proceedings, likely due to the fact that the film is based on the eponymous comic book by Antonin Baudry, which recounts his own experiences as a speechwriter for real-life Foreign Minister Dominique de Villepin.

But the emphasis here is firmly on the comedy of the situation. Arthur’s optimism begins to fade as he’s plunged into workaday reality, much of which involves the minister’s staff frantically fixing problems while he storms around in the background and screams truisms lifted wholesale from Greek philosopher Heraclitus. There’s something almost tragic to Arthur’s increasingly desperate attempts to write the perfect speech for Taillard de Worms – it goes through several iterations, the focus shifting (oftentimes nonsensically) as the minister’s moods dance, sway and waltz away with logic and good sense. At every turn, Claude is frustrated in his noble efforts to ward off a crisis in Lousdemistan – a surrogate for Iraq – by bickering colleagues and the fretful fluttering of his foolish boss. The film is constructed firmly around Lhermitte’s breathless and, ultimately, breathtaking performance. Taillard de Worms is a character who is, in effect, a human hurricane: he literally churns up paper flurries (and thereby makes a mess) whenever he enters a room, flinging out pompous statements in jogging shorts or dragging down a meeting with non sequiturs. A lesser actor would not have been able to play the minister’s curious blend of insanity and incompetence – one which somehow works just well enough to make it credible that this character is somehiin power. But Lhermitte does so with flair to spare, whether Taillard de Worms is obsessively speechifying about the importance of yellow highlighters or terrorising a Nobel Laureate at lunch.

While the film largely works quite well as a farce, Quai D’Orsay suffers somewhat in its editing. After a point, Arthur’s travails and his encounters with Taillard de Worms grow repetitive and even tedious, particularly when the film nears the two-hour mark. That could be partly the point – imagine what it must really be like to live and work with someone like Taillard de Worms day after crazy day – but there’s really only so much bumbling incompetence one can take before the comedy becomes a tragedy. Tavernier’s film is smart and savvy in its satire but, like its main character, starts to grate on one’s nerves the longer it belabours the same point.

Foreign Officers
I can think – as, I am sure, can you – of at least a dozen French film directors I would check out if I was in the mood for satire/comedy before getting round to Bertrand Tavernier. Nevertheless that is what he serves up here in the twilight of a career devoted to more dramatic fare. People like Tavernier and his principal players – Thierry Thermitte, Niels Arestrup – don’t, of course, do mediocre so we are speaking of an entertaining evening even if your knowledge of French politics is non- existent (although, purely by coincidence, the presence of Julie Gayet in a major supporting role is unlikely to harm its chances at the box office and it’s really refreshing to see a young French actor – in this case Rafael Personnaz – who is the complete antitheses of the current crop that embraces Romain Duris, Gal Ulliel, Benoit Magimal, who alternate between sullen and arrogant, each firmly convinced he is God’s gift. In short whilst not vintage Tavernier it is far from chopped liver.

Other Information:

Original Language fr
Runtime 1 hr 53 min (113 min)
Budget 5112027
Revenue 5586646
Status Released
Rated Not Rated
Genre Comedy
Director Bertrand Tavernier
Writer Antonin Baudry, Christophe Blain, Bertrand Tavernier
Actors Thierry Lhermitte, Raphaël Personnaz, Niels Arestrup
Country France
Awards 3 wins & 10 nominations
Production Company N/A
Website N/A

Technical Information:

Sound Mix Dolby Digital
Aspect Ratio 1.85 : 1
Camera Arri Alexa Plus, Zeiss Master Prime and Angenieux Optimo Lenses
Laboratory N/A
Film Length N/A
Negative Format N/A
Cinematographic Process N/A
Printed Film Format Digital (Digital Cinema Package DCP)