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The Conquest
2011 1h 45m Not Rated
Drama
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Comedy
,
Biography
6.3
79%
50%
58%
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A look at French president Nicolas Sarkozy's rise to power.
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Directed By
Xavier Durringer
Written By
Xavier Durringer
,
Patrick Rotman
Studio
Mandarin Film
,
Gaumont
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Cast of The Conquest
Denis Podalydès
Nicolas Sarkozy
Florence Pernel
Cécilia Sarkozy
Bernard Le Coq
Jacques Chirac
Michèle Moretti
Bernadette Chirac
Samuel Labarthe
Dominique de Villepin
Emmanuel Noblet
Bruno Le Maire
Hippolyte Girardot
Claude Guéant
Mathias Mlekuz
Franck Louvrier
Grégory Fitoussi
Laurent Solly
Pierre Cassignard
Frédéric Lefèbvre
Dominique Besnehard
Pierre Charon
Michel Bompoil
Henri Guaino
Saïda Jawad
Rachida Dati
Gérard Chaillou
Jean-Louis Debré
Nicolas Moreau
Pierre Giacometti
Yann Babilée
Richard Attias
The Conquest Reviews
Boston Globe
Ty Burr
"Conquest'' is a seriocomic portrait of naked ambition and a depiction of petty office politics on a national scale. It's a deadpan hoot that lacks the bite it could and arguably should have had.
St. Louis Post-Dispatch
Joe Williams
"The Conquest" is like a French restaurant that serves small portions of tart appetizers and calls them freedom fries, yet begrudgingly we must salute the gall.
Washington Post
John DeFore
Failing to find deeper meaning in their protagonist's crises, they tell the story in a way that will only hold the interest of those who already know it fairly well.
Seattle Times
John Hartl
Sarkozy seems to mean exactly what he says, even when he's lying for his cause, and Podalyds has the skill to demonstrate that.
San Francisco Chronicle
Amy Biancolli
The film is a vehement drama and a fitfully amusing snark fest set to Nicola Piovani's jaunty circus music. It winds up only half-succeeding at both.
Chicago Sun-Times
Roger Ebert
"The Conquest," a feature about recent French politics, makes me yearn for a similar American treatment of our own scene.
Christian Science Monitor
Peter Rainer
Durringer has a good sense of pacing, and he keeps the various interlocking machinations reasonably comprehensible even for those of us who aren't experts in French political intrigue.
AV Club
Noel Murray
The Conquest offers that familiar thrill of being allowed to peek behind the curtain and see what our leaders are really like...
New York Times
Stephen Holden
Only intermittently rises above the tone of an arch, sniping drawing-room comedy peopled with mild caricatures.
New York Post
V.A. Musetto
A lot gets lost in translation in "The Conquest,'' an account of Nicolas Sarkozy's 2007 rise to the French presidency.
Los Angeles Times
Kenneth Turan
A smart, involving and strikingly adult drama about Sarkozy's rise to power...
Slant Magazine
Andrew Schenker
Essentially a geeked-out political procedural, the film is never less than wholly watchable.
The New Republic
Stanley Kauffmann
The Sarkozy story glistens, snakelike.
The Atlantic
Jon Frosch
The dialogue is punchy, but the film lacks visual personality, and the insights into Sarkozy and France as a whole don't cut very deep.
NPR
Scott Tobias
Watching Sarko steamroll his even-more-unctuous rivals has its pleasures, but how can this outrageous creature of raw ambition also be treated in such sobering terms? The Conquest tries to have it both ways.
Village Voice
Melissa Anderson
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.
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Sarah Boslaugh
The Conquest does not aspire to Shakespearean heights (press notes to the contrary) but remains more on the level of a well-made movie of the week...
Variety
Boyd van Hoeij
Pic takes genre helmer Xavier Durringer back to his theater roots, with most of the narrative mayhem and laughs coming from pic's sharp dialogue and strong work by seasoned thesps, who just manage to avoid caricature.
Boston Phoenix
Gerald Peary
The performances are convincing, but American audiences may find little to care about in the Gallic-specific backstage machinations of Sarkozy's ascendancy.
East Bay Express
Kelly Vance
Maybe a documentary would have done the job better.
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