French FF: Kompromat (2)

Date: Thursday 30 June 2022

Time: 8:00 pm

Drama, Thriller | Rating TBC | 127 minutes French and Russian with English subtitles . Gilles Lellouche stars as Mathieu, a gregarious and dedicated diplomat who accepts a posting to Irkutsk as the head of Siberia’s Alliance Fran c¸ aise. He hopes the change will be good for his family and struggling marriage, but before long Mathieu’s staging of cultural events and support of artistic expression sees him fall afoul of local authorities. Accused of a terrible crime, he soon realises someone has fabricated a case with Russia’s Federal Security Service; he has been framed