Rating: NR
Genre: Drama
Theatrical Release: 04/27/2007(USA
Release Date: 07/17/2007
SubTitles: English
Dubbed: French
Sound: DD2
Run Time: 107 Minutes
Flags: Adult Situations, Profanity
Distributor/Studio: Strand Home Video

French writer/director Emmanuel Bourdieu's intense, cerebral drama Poison Friends dissects the internal politics (and eviscerates the pretentiousness) of French academic circles played out on a collegiate campus. Three first-year graduate literature students at the Sorbonne, Alexandre Pariente (Alexandre Steiger), Eloi (Malik Zidi), and Edouard (Thomas Blanchard) fall under the spell of a more vain and self-superior fellow student, André (Thibault Vinçon). André is handsome, intelligent, suave, and an intellectual vulture, and his reputation in the eyes of coeds and faculty is soon so elevated that he wields the power to tell everyone what to do, how to think, and in which direction to carry their lives. Ultimately, the question arises of whether he is truly as perfect as he seems; then André unexpectedly takes off for America, leaving everyone in his wake. Jacques Bonnaffé, Dominique Blanc, and Françoise Girard co-star.

~ Nathan Southern, All Movie Guide

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Cast:
Thibault Vinçon - André
Malik Zidi - Eloi
Alexandre Steiger - Alexandre Pariente
Thomas Blanchard - Edouard
Natacha Régnier -
Jacques Bonnaffé -
Dominique Blanc -
Françoise Girard -
Botum Dupuis -

Production:
Emmanuel Bourdieu - Director
Yorick Le Saux David Mathieu-Mahias Mani Mortazavi - Producer
Gregoire Hetzel - Composer
Benoît Quinon - Editor
Emmanuel Bourdieu Marcia Romano - Screen Writer
Yorick Le Saux - Cinematographer
Nicholas de Boiscuille - Production Designer
Francois Guillaume - Sound/Sound Designer
Elsa Amiel - First Assistant Director

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