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Directed by | Valérie Donzelli |
Produced by | Edouard Weil |
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Jérémie Elkaïm Valérie Donzelli |
Starring | Valérie Donzelli |
Cinematography | Sébastien Buchmann |
Edited by | Pauline Gaillard |
Distributed by | Wild Bunch Distribution |
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100 minutes |
Country | France |
Language | French |
Budget | €1.5 million |
Box office | $6.5 million |
Declaration of War (French: La Guerre est déclarée) is a 2011 French film directed by Valérie Donzelli, and written by and starring Donzelli and Jérémie Elkaïm; it is based on actual events in their lives together, when they were a young couple caring for their dangerously ill son. It was released on the 31 August 2011 and received very positive reviews; Allociné, a review aggregation website gave it an average of 4.3 stars out of five.Le Monde gave it a full five stars, saying "Against cancer, an undoubtable force of happiness". The film was selected as the French entry for the Best Foreign Language Film at the 84th Academy Awards, but it did not make the final shortlist.