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Full Speed

Full Speed

19965.21h 25m

Overview

A brief extract of four kids' lives somewhere in France. Quentin, who won a writers contest and now pays more attention to his career as an author than to his friends, beautiful Julie, his girl-friend, much more mature than she looks, falling in love with Quentin's very best friend Jimmy, who is kind of stuck in his unability of self-expression and grown up under bad social circumstances. And there is the shy boy Samir, exiled from Algeria, who lost his "brother" and only friend some time ago. Samir heavily falls in love with Quentin, but he can't handle it...

Directed by Gaël Morel
Written by Catherine Corsini, Gaël Morel
Produced by Laurent Bénégui, Valérie Fumet, Philippe Missonnier
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Top Cast

Élodie Bouchez

Élodie Bouchez

Julie

Stéphane Rideau

Stéphane Rideau

Jimmy

Pascal Cervo

Pascal Cervo

Quentin

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Mezziane Bardadi

Samir

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Romain Auger

Rick

Salim Kéchiouche

Salim Kéchiouche

Jamel

Mohammed Dib

Mohammed Dib

Karim

Themes & Keywords

coming outadolescencelyonyouth gangsuburb

About Full Speed

Full Speed is a romance, drama film released in 1996 exploring themes of coming out, adolescence, lyon, youth gang, suburb. Directed by Gaël Morel, it stars Élodie Bouchez, Stéphane Rideau, Pascal Cervo. A brief extract of four kids' lives somewhere in France. Quentin, who won a writers contest and now pays more attention to his career as an author than to his friends, beautiful Julie, his girl-friend, much more mature than she looks, falling in love with Quentin's very best friend Jimmy, who is kind of stuck in his unability of self-expression and grown up under bad social circumstances. And there is the shy boy Samir, exiled from Algeria, who lost his "brother" and only friend some time ago. Samir heavily falls in love with Quentin, but he can't handle it...

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