LES IRRÉDUCTIBLES (The Indomitable)

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: "Jacques Gamblin's character [Michel] is as seductive as he is at times misunderstood, due to his masculine failings, composed of misplaced pride and trouble trusting others. Opposite him, we find Anne Brochet [Claire Deschamps], disturbingly upright and generous...The two of them make a credible couple, whose setbacks contrast with their beautiful complicity. It is a story whose motives are not obvious, and it will touch those who hope for the best. The staging, punctuated by disturbingly forceful musical escapades, surprisingly succeeds in toying with our sense of self and also with our longing for personal freedom."

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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