21 Nights with Pattie

2015 French film

28 August 2015 (2015-08-28) (Angoulême)
25 November 2015 (2015-11-25) (France)

Running time

110 minutesCountryFranceLanguageFrenchBudget$3.7 million^[1]Box office$2.5 million^[2]

21 Nights with Pattie (original title: 21 nuits avec Pattie) is a 2015 French comedy-drama film written and directed by Arnaud and Jean-Marie Larrieu.^[3]

Plot

A forty-two-year-old Parisian named Caroline comes to a small village in Southern France because she has to organise the funeral of her mother. Caroline, who didn't get along all too well with her deceased mother, finds a new friend in a local woman named Pattie who introduces her to local gossip. While the traditional mid-summer dance is about to take place, the corpse disappears.

Cast

Isabelle Carré as Caroline
Karin Viard as Pattie
André Dussollier as Jean
Sergi López as Manuel
Laurent Poitrenaux [fr] as Pierre
Denis Lavant as André
Philippe Rebbot as Jean-Marc
Jules Ritmanic as Kamil
Mathilde Monnier as Isabelle

Accolades

Award / Film Festival	Category	Recipients and nominees	Result
César Awards^[4]	Best Supporting Actress	Karin Viard	Nominated
Lumières Awards^[5]	Best Actor	André Dussollier	Nominated
Lumières Awards^[5]	Best Screenplay	Arnaud and Jean-Marie Larrieu	Nominated
San Sebastián International Film Festival^[6]^[7]^[8]	Best Screenplay	Arnaud and Jean-Marie Larrieu	Won

References

^ "21 Nuits avec Pattie". JP's Box-Office.
^ "21 Nuits avec Pattie (2015) - JPBox-Office".
^ "21 nuits avec Pattie". unifrance.org. Retrieved 2015-11-03.
^ "'Golden Years,' 'Marguerite,' 'Dheepan,' 'Mustang' Lead Cesar Nominations". Variety. 27 January 2016.
^ "Prix Lumières 2016 : Trois souvenirs de ma jeunesse et Mustang en tête des nominations". AlloCiné. 4 January 2016.
^ "21 Nights with Pattie". San Sebastián.
^ "'High-Rise', 'Sunset Song' join San Sebastian Film Festival competition". Screendaily.
^ "Runar Runarsson's 'Sparrows' Tops San Sebastian". Variety. 26 September 2015.