99 Francs is a 2007

2007 in film

This is a list of major films released in 2007.-Top grossing films:Please note that following the tradition of the English-language film industry, these are the top grossing films that were first released in the USA in 2007...

 film

Film

A film, also called a movie or motion picture, is a series of still or moving images. It is produced by recording photographic images with cameras, or by creating images using animation techniques or visual effects...

 by the French

France

The French Republic , The French Republic , The French Republic , (commonly known as France , is a unitary semi-presidential republic in Western Europe with several overseas territories and islands located on other continents and in the Indian, Pacific, and Atlantic oceans. Metropolitan France...

 director Jan Kounen

Jan Kounen

Jan Kounen is a Dutch-born French film director and producer.In France, he is mostly known for his films Dobermann , Blueberry, l'experience secrete and 99 francs ....

 based on a novel with the same title written by Frédéric Beigbeder

Frédéric Beigbeder

Frédéric Beigbeder is a French writer and literary critic. He won the Prix Interallié in 2003 for his novel Windows on the World and the Prix Renaudot in 2009 for his book Un roman français...

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Plot

The film is a satire

Satire

Satire is primarily a literary genre or form, although in practice it can also be found in the graphic and performing arts. In satire, vices, follies, abuses, and shortcomings are held up to ridicule, ideally with the intent of shaming individuals, and society itself, into improvement...

 on the modern advertisement business. The plot mainly concerns the story of a commercial advertisement designer, Octave Parango (Jean Dujardin

Jean Dujardin

-Life and career:Dujardin was born in Rueil-Malmaison. Dujardin first became famous on the French talent show Graines de star in 1996 as part of the comedy group Nous C Nous, formed by members of the Carré blanc theater. From 1999 to 2003 he starred in the French version of the comedy television...

), who has an easy-going, highly paid job, and an active free life mainly consisting of drugs and random one-time sexual relationships. However, he starts growing weary of his job, and after having his first ever long-time relationship with fellow worker Sophie (Vahina Giocante

Vahina Giocante

-Movie roles:As Marie in Marie Baie des Anges , she is among a group of young wanderers who become enmeshed in love, hate, and violence on the French Riviera....

) fail miserably, he organises a revolt against the advertisement business.

Cast

• Jean Dujardin
  Jean Dujardin
  -Life and career:Dujardin was born in Rueil-Malmaison. Dujardin first became famous on the French talent show Graines de star in 1996 as part of the comedy group Nous C Nous, formed by members of the Carré blanc theater. From 1999 to 2003 he starred in the French version of the comedy television...
  
  
• Patrick Mille
• Vahina Giocante
  Vahina Giocante
  -Movie roles:As Marie in Marie Baie des Anges , she is among a group of young wanderers who become enmeshed in love, hate, and violence on the French Riviera....
  
  
• Elisa Tovati
  Elisa Tovati
  Elisa Tovati born Elisa Touati is a French singer and television celebrity.- Early years :Elisa Tovati was born in 1976 of Russo-Moroccan Jewish origins in Paris, France. She showed interest in theatre early in her life, and her teenage years saw her co-presenting a French programme Y'a pas d'lézard...
  
  
• Nicolas Marié
• Dominique Bettenfeld
• Antoine Basler
• Fosco Perinti
• Cendrine Orcier
• Dan Herzberg
• Arsène Mosca
• Niels Dubost
• Aurélie Boquien
• Mathias Jarnet