The Student and Mister Henri

Oct 7, 2015

1h 40m

★ 6.6

Overview

Because of his wavering health, Monsieur Henri can no longer live alone in his Paris appartment. Particularly grumpy, he ends up nonetheless accepting his son Paul's suggestion that he let one of his rooms out to a young female student. Far from falling for her charms, Henri uses her to orchestrate utter family chaos...

Genres

Drama

Comedy

Production Companies

StudioCanal

France 2 Cinéma

Canal+

OCS

Mandarin Cinéma

The Student and Mister Henri Trailers

Cast

Henri Voizot

Claude Brasseur

Paul Voizot

Guillaume de Tonquédec

Constance Piponnier

Noémie Schmidt

Valérie

Frédérique Bel

Mathieu

Thomas Solivérès

Constance's mother

Valérie Kéruzoré

Constance's brother

Antoine Glemain

Arthur, driving school instructor

Grégori Baquet

Driving school examiner

Anne Loiret

Simon, disk jockey

Nicolas Guillot

Paul's assistant

Paula Brunet-Sancho

Client at the market

Agnès Pichois

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