9 Month Stretch
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Music director Christophe Julien Duration | 6.6/10 Genre Comedy Country France | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Release date 16 October 2013 (2013-10-16) Writer Hector Cabello Reyes (collaboration), Olivier Demangel (collaboration), Albert Dupontel (screenplay) Initial release October 16, 2013 (Belgium) Cast (Ariane Felder), Albert Dupontel (Bob Nolan), Philippe Uchan (Juge de Bernard), Nicolas Marié (Maître Trolos), (Policier vidéosurveillance), Gilles Gaston-Dreyfus (Monsieur De Lime)Similar movies 12 Angry Men , Music Box , Dredd , Dead Man Walking , The Usual Suspects , Rashomon |
9 Month Stretch (French: 9 mois ferme) is a 2013 French comedy film written, directed by and starring Albert Dupontel. It was nominated for six categories at the 39th César Awards including Best Film and Best Director and Best Actor for Dupontel, winning Best Actress for its co-star Sandrine Kiberlain and Best Original Screenplay.
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Plot

Ariane Felder is pregnant. This is all the more surprising since this examining magistrate is an old-fashioned single person. But even more surprising is the fact that, according to DNA tests, the father is no other than Bob, a criminal prosecuted for atrocious assault and battery. Ariane, who does not remember anything, tries to understand what happened.
Cast

Background

Dupontel was inspired by 10e chambre, instants d'audience, a documentary by Raymond Depardon in which judge Michèle Bernard-Requin appears. Bernard-Requin also plays a judge in Neuf mois ferme.

Dupontel originally intended to make Neuf mois ferme his first English-language film, with Emma Thompson playing Ariane Felder.

The name of the coroner Toulate ("too late") character comes from this first intention. He chose to name his main character Ariane in reference to Ariadne as this character loses the thread. Attorney Trolos' name means stutterer in Ancient Greek.
César Awards
References
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