Amanda (2018 film)

Amanda is a 2018 French drama film directed by Mikhaël Hers.

Plot

Living in Paris, 24-year-old David is close to his sister Sandrine – a single mother – and her seven-year-old daughter, Amanda. Sandrine is an English teacher, while David looks after holiday lets and is a part-time gardener. He meets Lena, a piano teacher. Sandrine goes to the park with friends where, in a terrorist attack, she is killed and Lena injured. David looks after Amanda but, even with the help of his aunt Maud, he isn’t sure he can cope and considers sending her to a children’s home. Amanda initially wants to stay with Maud but, as she and David begin to bond, she changes her mind. Lena moves back home to Bordeaux but David asks her to move in with him. He then takes Amanda to London to meet his estranged mother Alison, and to visit the Wimbledon Tennis Championships. As their relationship deepens, David decides to become Amanda’s guardian and to adopt her.

Cast

Vincent Lacoste as David

Stacy Martin as Léna

as Amanda

Ophélia Kolb as Sandrine

Marianne Basler as Maud

Jonathan Cohen as Axel

Greta Scacchi as Alison

as the children's home director

Nabiha Akkari as Raja

Raphaël Thiéry as Moïse

Claire Tran as Lydia

Elli Medeiros as Eve

Zoé Bruneau as the social worker

Lily Bensliman as the journalist at the café

Lawrence Valin as the Indian father

Missia Piccoli as the mother at the lycée

David Olivier Fischer as the father at the lycée

Luke Tristan as the man beside the Thames

Jeanne Candel as the first young woman in the hospital

Lisa Wisznia as the second young woman in the hospital

Léah Lapiower as Emmanuelle

Carole Rochet as the guardian at the school

Christopher Koderisch as a tennis player

Lannart Zynga as a tennis player

References

External links

2018 films

2018 drama films

2010s French films

2010s French-language films

Films directed by Mikhaël Hers

Films scored by Anton Sanko

French drama films