Premiere - Masquerade : Our media was at the private premiere of the Allociné club

By Mulder, Paris, Forum des images, 26 october 2022

"It's the adaptation of the book that I tried in vain to write for a year and which tells in a very romantic way a rather sad period of my life, around the age of 23, when I was drowning in idleness and other people's money. Let's say it's the story of a loser maintained by older women who falls head over heels for a loser maintained by older guys, their affair leading to a vast manipulation in love. It is also the story of a muted war between the sexes and generations. And it's the very subjective portrait I wanted to make of the French Riviera, whose name is associated in my mind as much with Francis Scott Fitzgerald and the eccentricity of a decadent elite as with the omnipresence, not so long ago, of Russian oligarchs, their magnum of champagne in the sun and their competition of real estate vulgarities."- Nicolas Bedos

Masquerade is a French film written and directed by Nicolas Bedos, released in 2022. It was presented out of competition at the 2022 Cannes Film Festival and was released in France on November 1, 2022. This is the fourth film written and directed by Nicolas Bedos after Monsieur et Madame Adelman (2017), La Belle Époque (2019) and OSS 117: Red Alert in Black Africa (2021). The cast includes Pierre Niney, Isabelle Adjani, François Cluzet, Marine Vacth, Emmanuelle Devos, Laura Morante, Charles Berling.

We were present this evening at the private screening organized as part of the Allociné club at the Forum des Images. The screening was followed by a meeting with Nicolas Bedos and the two main actors Pierre Niney and François Cluzet.

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Synopsis: 
When a young gigolo falls under the spell of a sublime hustler, it is the beginning of a Machiavellian plan under the hot sun of the French Riviera. Are the two lovers ready to do anything to offer themselves a dream life, even if it means sacrificing that of a former movie star and a real estate agent? Passions, crimes, betrayals... After Mr. and Mrs. Adelman and La Belle Époque, Nicolas Bedos makes a mockery of the cruel world of money and delivers a new sentimental fresco.

Masquerade
Written and directed by Nicolas Bedos
Produced by François Kraus, Denis Pineau-Valencienne
With Pierre Niney, Isabelle Adjani, François Cluzet, Marine Vacth, Emmanuelle Devos, Laura Morante, Charles Berling, Christiane Millet, James Wilby, Nicolas Briançon, Bruno Raffaelli, Philippe Uchan, Daniel Hanssens, Bérangère McNeese, Marie Zabukovec, Yann Lerat, Jean Vincentelli 
Music: Nicolas Bedos, Anne-Sophie Versnaeyen
Director of photography : Laurent Tangy
Editing: Anny Danché
Production companies: Les Films du kiosque, Orange Studio, Pathé
Distributed by Pathé Distribution (France), Orange Studio (international)
Release date: November 1, 2022 (France)
Running time: 134 minutes

Photos and video : Boris Colletier