As the countdown for the Transilvania International Film Festival's 10th edition is starting, we are proud to announce the opening title of 2011: on June 3rd, in Cluj-Napoca's main square (Piata Unirii) the festival audience will begin the 10-day festival adventure with a smile: Francois Ozon's Potiche is the opening title for this year's edition.
Transilvania IFF Lifetime Achievement Award winner Catherine Deneuve will return to the Cluj big screen as the leading lady in Ozon's latest featured, premiered in the frame of the 2010 Venice Film Festival and screened with great succes, both to festival and general audiences. The film's highlight cast includes, besides Deneuve, Gerard Depardieu and Fabrice Luchini.
An ironical overview of the troubled time of the 70s France, Potiche focuses on the emancipation of middle-class wives of those years. When her husband (Luchini) is taken hostage by his striking employees, a trophy wife (Deneuve) takes the reins of the family business and proves to be a remarkably effective leader. Business and personal complications arrive in the form of her ex-lover (Depardieu), a former union leader.
