SummaryThe day is May 6, 2007, France’s run-up to the presidential elections. As the French people are getting ready to go to the polls to elect their new president, presidential candidate Nicolas Sarkozy has shut himself away in his home. Though Sarkozy soon knows he has won the election, he is alone, gloomy and despondent. For hours he has been trying... Read More
Directed By:Xavier Durringer
Written By:Patrick Rotman, Xavier Durringer
The Conquest
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43% Positive
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Nov 10, 2011
80
A smart, involving and strikingly adult drama about Sarkozy's rise to power.
Nov 12, 2011
75
Still, I prefer a bit more drama in my political docudramas. The Conquest never really breaks out of its genre in the way that, say, "The Queen" or "Il Divo" or the more fictionalized "In the Loop" did.
Nov 8, 2011
70
Aided by an excellent ensemble cast, director Xavier Durringer and his co-scripter, Patrick Rotman, don't refrain from showing this truly repellent side of Sarko during his rise from minister of justice in 2002 to the highest elected office.
Nov 8, 2011
60
A drama about the dirty business of gaining power, it needs bared fangs - and more bite.
Nov 17, 2011
50
Where the film might have found its greater meaning is in the interplay between Sarkozy's public and private lives - an especially fertile ground here, given that wife Cecilia (Florence Pernel) was a key adviser and their very public separation threatened his eventual run for president.
Nov 10, 2011
50
The movie, which begins with Mr. Sarkozy's election-night victory in May 2007, only intermittently rises above the tone of an arch, sniping drawing-room comedy peopled with mild caricatures.
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Production Company:
- Gaumont
- Mandarin Films
- Canal+
- CinéCinéma
- Sofica Manon
- Cofimage 22
- Cofinova 7
- Uni Étoile 8
Release Date:Nov 11, 2011
Duration:1 h 45 m
Tagline:The man behind the woman behind the man.
Awards
César Awards, France
• 2 Nominations
Hamburg Film Festival
• 1 Nomination
Valladolid International Film Festival
• 1 Nomination
