The Key (French: La Clef) is a 2007 French thriller film directed by Guillaume Nicloux.

The Key
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French: La Clef
Directed byGuillaume Nicloux
Written byGuillaume Nicloux
Pierre Trividic
Produced byFrédéric Bourboulon
Philippe Rousselet
Étienne Comar
StarringGuillaume Canet
Marie Gillain
Vanessa Paradis
Josiane Balasko
Thierry Lhermitte
Jean Rochefort
Françoise Lebrun
CinematographyChristophe Offenstein
Edited byGuy Lecorne
Production
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Les Films de la Suane
Distributed bySND Films
Release date
  • 19 December 2007 (2007-12-19)
Running time
115 minutes
CountryFrance
LanguageFrench
Budget$6.3 million
Box office$3.4 million[1]

Plot

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Eric Vincent is in his thirties and lives an uneventful life with his wife Audrey. They are talking about having a child. Eric is contacted by a friend of his biological father he never knew about the latter's death. Eric can come and collect his father's ashes. He is reluctant but then accepts.

Cast

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Production

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The Key closes the dark and complex detective trilogy of William Nicloux. We find in this film, in supporting roles populating the parallel plots that Eric Vincent (Guillaume Canet), the characters of François Maneri (Thierry Lhermitte), the investigator of a private matter, Une affaire privée, and Michèle Varin (Josiane Balasko), the police captain in That Woman, the second part.

References

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  1. ^ "La Clef (2007) - JPBox-Office".
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