Eva & Leon
Eva & Leon is a 2015 French drama film written and directed by Émilie Cherpitel. The movie was a submission to the 82nd Academy Awards for Best Foreign Language Film.
Plot
The movie is about a privileged woman and an orphaned boy who become friends.Leon and his older brother, Arnaud, were abandoned in a park in Lyon.
They are seen as outcasts by a social worker, who considers both the brothers mentally ill and the only solution is sending them to a children’s home.
With the help of two teachers, Leon and Arnaud are put in an English-language school run by a kind but rough-around-the-edges teacher called Isabelle.
Cast
- Clotilde Hesme as Eva
- Florian Lemaire as Léon
- Peter Coyote as The father
- Keziah Jones as John
- Clotilde Courau as Lucie
- Yannick Choirat as Simon
- Idit Cebula as Madame Agostini
- Grégoire Bonnet as a psychiatrist
- Joséphine de La Baume as Simone
- Christophe Dimitri Réveille as Jérôme
- Frédéric Beigbeder as Richard
- David Serero as the Italian Crooner