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Romain Duris is playing an american?


The IMBD summaries make it sound as though he is... i wasn't aware he could do an american accent, though clearly he speaks english... so is he playing american or french in this film?

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His character could just be a French man who emigrated from France to the USA.


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Evangeline Lilly said in her latest Jimmy Kimmel interview that she spoke a little bit of french in the movie, so you could be right about Romain Duris's character being a French emigrant to the US. Maybe Evangeline's character is also a french emigrant??

Evangeline also said in another recent interview that she is going to see the movie for the first time in two weeks and that she is really excited to see it and also that she didn't have any scenes in the movie with John Malkovich but hung out with him off camera quite alot.

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I just saw the trailer of this movie in France and the whole trailer was in French. Is there a trailer in English? I read part of the book (which is a French book) the movie was based on and the book definitely takes place in the US. However is Romain Duris speaking mostly French or English in the movie? Is his character American?

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Hi, I watched the movie today (in France). Romain Duris plays a French who always lived in USA actually. He went there when he was a young boy.

The movies is almost entirely in english, but Romain speaks a little french sometimes. As far as Evangeline is concerned, she only has a line of french, although she is fluent in french. Too sad for us :-)

By the way, good movie !

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this is one of the worst movies I've seen in my life.

and as far as Duris is concerned, he was awful. the guy speaks a perfect English with a deep French accent ... it sounded very artificial, pretty much like a machine that doesn't understand what it's saying

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Yeah the backstory is his character moved to the USA from France when he was young.

I understood most of what Duris said. But that's because I grew up with a French father who speaks English with a French accent so I'm used to it. However my dad's accent is definitely not as thick!

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agreed. He's really not outstanding as an actor in French but his totally unconvincing performance totally ruined the movie. If they wanted a French guy who can speak English like he understands what he's talking about, they could have hired Canet... i don't get it.

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As i got it he is an american jew with french origins.

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