La journée de la jupe (Skirt Day) (2008)
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71% of users liked it
(337 ratings)
A troubled and emotionally fragile woman finds herself at the center of a firestorm, in this gut-wrenching psychological drama from France. Screen veteran Isabelle Adjani (Les Soeurs Brontë, Ishtar) stars as Sonia Bergerac, an instructor at a school for "difficult" children. As if that… More A troubled and emotionally fragile woman finds herself at the center of a firestorm, in this gut-wrenching psychological drama from France. Screen veteran Isabelle Adjani (Les Soeurs Brontë, Ishtar) stars as Sonia Bergerac, an instructor at a school for "difficult" children. As if that role were not demanding enough, Sonia's husband suddenly and inexplicably leaves her, and she encounters considerable problems adjusting to her work environment. She thus finds herself careening toward a nervous breakdown, with seemingly no way to stop. Compounding matters is Sonia's decision to buck the principal's rule of no skirts for female teachers, a policy she resents. Sonia's world explodes into chaos one afternoon when she discovers a gun in one of her students' bags. Acting spontaneously and indignantly, she seizes it and fires an accidental shot, wounding one pupil's leg. The incident gets misread and draws untoward attention, and before long parents, politicians, law officers and the media surround the school and turn an unfortunate incident into a full-blown hostage crisis that may well push Sonia over the edge of sanity. ~ Nathan Southern, Rovi
- Directed By
- Jean-Paul Lilienfeld
- Genres
- Art House & International, Drama
Unrated,
- In Theaters
- Oct 23, 2009 Wide
- Studio
- Cinema Epoch
Critic Reviews
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Rene Rodriguez, Miami Herald
Skirt Day, which has the feel of a mediocre stage play transplanted to the screen, grows duller and more preposterous as it unfolds, with Adjani's illogical antics becoming shriller and less sympathetic as the standoff stretches on.
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Gary Goldstein, Los Angeles Times
Just what is writer-director Jean-Paul Lilienfeld's endgame?
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Chris Buckle, The Skinny
There is significant salvation in the form of a committed lead turn from Isabelle Adjani, which won her a record-breaking fifth Best Actress Cesar.
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Anton Bitel, Eye for Film
a stark political satire, exposing all the divisions and frictions - social, sexual, racial, cultural and religious - of a modern multi-cultural France whose fragile sense of identity remains locked in a state of turbulent adolescence.
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Cast
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Isabelle Adjani
as Sonia Bergerac
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Denis Podalydès
as Labouret
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Yann Collette
as Bechet
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Jackie Berroyer
as The Principal
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Khalid Berkouz
as Mehmet
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Yann Ebonge
as Mouss
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Sonia Amori
as Nawel
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Kévin Azaïs
as Sébastien, Sébastien, Sbastien
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Sarah Douali
as Farida
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Hassan Mezhoud
as Akim
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Karim Zakraoui
as Farid
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Fily Doumbia
as Adiy
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Salim Boughidene
as Jérôme, Jérôme, Jr
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Mélèze Bouzid
as Khadjia
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Nathalie Besançon
as The Minister
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Anne Girouard
as Cécile, Cécile, Ccile
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Stéphan Guérin-Tillié
as François, François, Fran?ois
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Olivier Brocheriou
as Julien
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Marc Citti
as Frédéric, Frédéric, Frdric
