aka TOURNEE

Year: 2010
UK: Artificial Eye
Cast: Miranda Colclasure, Suzanne Ramsey, Linda Marraccini, Julie Ann Muz, Angela de Lorenzo, Alexander Craven, Mathieu Amalric, Damien Odoul, Ulysse Klotz, Simon Roth, Joseph Roth, Aurélia Petit, Antoine Gouy, André S Labarthe, Pierre Grimblat
Director: Mathieu Amalric
Country: France
Language: English / French (English subtitles)
UK: 111 mins
UK Certificate: 15 contains strong language and sex
UK Release Date: 24 December 2010 (Limited Release – Scotland)
UK Release Date: 10 December 2010 (Limited Release)

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Synopsis

Joachim, a former Parisian television producer had left everything behind - his children, friends, enemies, lovers and regrets - to start a new life in America.
He comes back with a team of New Burlesque strip-tease performers whom Joachim has fed fantasies of a tour of France, of Paris!

Travelling from port to port, the curvaceous showgirls invent an extravagant fantasy world of warmth and hedonism, despite the constant round of impersonal hotels with their endless elevator music and the lack of money. The show gets an enthusiastic response from men and women alike.

But their dream of a tour culminating in a last grand show in Paris goes up in smoke when Joachim is betrayed by an old friend and loses the theatre where they were due to perform. A quick return journey to the capital violently reopens old wounds.