Driving Madeleine (2022)
A seemingly simple taxi ride across Paris evolves into a profound meditation on the realities of the driver, whose personal life is in shambles, and his fare, an elderly woman whose warmth belies her shocking past.
Top billed cast
Line RenaudMadeleine
Dany BoonCharles
Alice IsaazMadeleine, jeune
Gwendoline HamonDenise
Hadriel RoureMathieu jeune- Elie KaempfenMatt
Christophe RossignonLe Président du tribunal
Jérémie LaheurteRaymond Haguenot, dit Ray
Julie DelarmeKarine- Thomas AldenMathieu (adulte)
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