L'Échappée belle (1996)
1h 25m
Running Time
March 27, 1996Release Date
Plot.
An aviation magnate takes desperate measures to regain custody of his kids after he is granted minimal visitation rights by a harsh female judge. It's true that Manu Barnes is free-spirited and for much of his twelve year marriage to Mathilde that he has been too centered on his career, but he does love his kids and believes he should see them more often than one weekend a month. The judge called him irresponsible and he decides to disprove her words by kidnapping Chloe, the judge's strong-willed adolescent daughter. He takes the girl to a remote, snow-bound mountain cabin. Unfortunately, she thinks Manu is sexually attracted to her. A disaster nearly occurs there, but Chloe manages to get back to Paris. Though he knows a private detective is trailing him, the determined Manu decides to abduct his kids and take them out of the country.
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Cast & Crew.
Jean-Marc Barr
Emmanuel Barnes
Anémone
Jeanine, la juge
Olivia Bonamy
Chloé
Antoine Duléry
Clovis Delmotte
Laurence Masliah
Mathilde Barnes
Zinedine Soualem
L'avocat
Bernard Alane
Georges
Denis Podalydès
Sanchez
Emma de Caunes
Juliette
Michèle Bernier
Madame Lambert
Bruno Lochet
l'inspecteur Cambois
Étienne Dhaene
Director
Fabien Béhar
l'inspecteur Jaubert
Louise Boisvert
La chef de cabinet
Christian Cloarec
Contrôleur 2
Denis Parent
Writer
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L'Échappée belle is a French film directed by Étienne Dhaene and released in 1996.It is his first film as director, about which he said: "A humanistic sentimental comedy close to those that made me dream of one day making my first film. That's done." The film, however, was not well received by the critics because of the weakness of his script.