Il a déjà tes yeux

Il a déjà tes yeux
Directed by Lucien Jean-Baptiste
Produced by Maxime Delauney
Romain Rousseau
Serge de Poucques
Sylvain Goldberg
Adrian Politowski
Thierry Ardisson
Written by Marie-Françoise Colombani
Lucien Jean-Baptiste
Sébastien Mounier
Starring Lucien Jean-Baptiste
Aïssa Maïga
Zabou Breitman
Vincent Elbaz
Music by Alexis Rault
Edited by Sahra Mekki
Production
company
Nolita Cinema
Distributed by UGC Distribution
Release date
  • 27 August 2016 (2016-08-27) (Festival du Film Francophone d'Angoulême)
  • 18 January 2017 (2017-01-18)
Running time
95 minutes
Country France
Language French
Box office $9.8 million[1]

Il a déjà tes yeux (He Even Has Your Eyes) is a 2016 French comedy directed by Lucien Jean-Baptiste.

Plot

Paul and Sali are a married black couple who are unable to have biological children, and have been struggling to adopt a child for a long time. When Sali finally receives the call that their adoption file is approved and that a 4-month-old white baby boy called Benjamin is available, it seems like nothing could go wrong anymore. Except for the fact that Sali's parents do not accept their white grandchild, and that the stubborn social worker Claire Mallet will do anything at her reach to stop Paul and Sali from adopting Benjamin.

Cast

  • Lucien Jean-Baptiste as Paul Aloka
  • Aïssa Maïga as Salimata Aloka
  • Zabou Breitman as Claire Mallet
  • Vincent Elbaz as Manu
  • Michel Jonasz as Monsieur Vidal
  • Naidra Ayadi as Anna
  • Marie-Philomène Nga as Mamita
  • Bass Dhem as Ousmane
  • Delphine Théodore as Prune
  • Marius Benchenafi as Benjamin (4 month)
    • Mathéo Perard as Benjamin (1 year)
  • Valérie Moreau as Madame Perez
  • Grégoire Bonnet as Baptiste Mallet
  • Guillaume Faure as Mathias
  • Sara Mortensen as Kristina
  • Maïmouna Gueye as Madame Diop
  • Sabine Pakora as Madame Diakité
  • Marie-Sohna Conde as Fatou
  • Mariam Kaba as Madame Cissé
  • Othniel Lefebvre as Gaspard

Development

The movie was first introduced during the Festival du Film Francophone d'Angoulême, in August 2016. The film was also screen at the 2016 Sarlat Film Festival.

References

  1. "Il a déjà tes yeux". JPBOX-OFFICE.
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