LES IRRÉDUCTIBLES (The Indomitable)

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Director: Renaud Bertrand
Soko's role: Lucie
Screenplay::Marc Herpoux, Dominique Mérillon, and Sébastien Thibaudeau
With: Kad Merad, Anne Brochet
Released: 14 June 2006 (France)
Length: 96 minutes
Genre: dramedy
Aspect ratio: 2.35:1

Two 40 year old factory workers, Gérard and Michel, lose their jobs. Since they failed to finish high school, they find the labour market difficult, so they decide to return to high school to get their diplomas. The fact that Michel has a son in high school complicates matters.

Soko - les irreductibes
Soko and Edouard Collin

The film is set in and around Bordeaux, Soko's home town. Soko plays Lucie, the girlfriend and fellow student of Michel's son Philippe, and first appears onscreen about 27 minutes into the film.

The real star of Les Iirréductibles is Anne Brochet, who turns in a brilliant comedic performance. The scene in the hairdresser's shop in which she turns a customer's wash and set into a threatening and very sexual dance with scissors is extraordinary. And she has an elegant scene where, alone at home, she dances with a vase of flowers.

Olivier Bachelard wrote for Abus de ciné: "Le personnage de Jacques Gamblin séduit autant qu'il provoque par moment l'incompréhension, de par ses travers masculin, faits de fierté mal placée et de difficultés à faire confiance aux autres. Face à lui, on retrouve une Anne Brochet troublante de droiture et d'élan généreux. On avait presque oublié à quel point elle est une actrice formidable. Tous deux composent ainsi un couple crédible, dont les déboires pratiques contrastent avec la belle complicité. Avec une histoire aux ressorts pas si évidents, touchera forcément ceux qui espèrent agir pour le mieux. D'autant que sa mise en scène, ponctuée d'échappées musicales d'une force troublante, réussit de manière surprenante à jouer avec notre ego autant que nos propres espoirs de liberté."

Anne Brochet

Valérie Kaprisky (Laurence) was also Sophie Grimaud, appeared with Soko in the Commissaire Valence episode DOUBLEFACE three months before Les irréductibles was released.

In many scenes, the characters are partially obscured by this or that in the unique style of Director Bertrand, but the scenes with Brochet are mostly full-screen and quite colourful.

The Bulgarian Symphony Orchestra provides most of the original music, and two songs ("Donde estas Yolanda", and "Let's Never Fall in Love Again") are by Pink Martini.

Soko in Les Irreductibles

Les Iirréductibles can be purchased or rented from Canal+.

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