Film Screening & Discussion
COLCOA TELEVISION
MANON, 20 YEARS (Manon, 20 ans)
Complete Series - Episodes 1-3
Followed by a discussion with writer/director Jean Xavier Delestrade
TV Series/Drama, 2017
Runtime: 2 hr 36 min
North American Premiere
Director: Jean-Xavier De Lestrade
Writers: Jean-Xavier Delestrade, Antoine Lacomblez
Cast: Alba Gaia Bellugi, Théo Cholbi, Déborah François, Marina Foïs
Synopsis:
In 2014, the mini-series 3x Manon explored the problems facing troubled teenagers. Manon, a strong but impetuous 15 year-old, is sentenced to six months in juvenile detention after seriously injuring her mother in a fit of rage.
Manon 20 Years picks up the story a few years later, and the result is a hard-edged snapshot of a precarious generation. Manon, faithfully inhabited by Intouchables star Alba Gaïa Kraghede Bellugi, juggles passion and companionship in her love life while trying to deal with blatant sexism among her fellow mechanics at the repair shop. But trouble calls again after she reconnects with her mother, and goes looking for her father. Directed by Jean Xavier Delestrade, who won an Oscar for his 2001 documentary Murder on a Sunday Morning.