A DIFFICULT YEAR (Une Année Difficile) by Olivier Nakache and Eric Toledano

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A DIFFICULT YEAR is the new heartwarming, witty and subtle comedy by Nakache & Toledano, the most famous French duo of directors. It tells the story of a pair of broke compulsive spenders that join a group of young eco-activists, more attracted by the free snacks than by their ideals. While they first join the movement to take advantage of every action to make a profit, they will, despite it all, take them on the way of another possible world. 12 years after the box-office smash INTOUCHABLES and 4 years after the award-winning and box-office hit THE SPECIALS, Nakache & Toledano are back and true to form with a new comedy in the spirit of the times. They invite the audience to discover two delightful and lovable losers as they meet a radical ecologist advocate. Highlighting growing contradictions within our society, A DIFFICULT YEAR is Nakache & Toledano’s eighth film together and their follow up to their TV debut EN THERAPIE, whose first and second season reached record ratings for a scripted series on Franco-German network Arte. A compelling, compassionate comedy that packs punches of pure joy! Not only a social nor committed comedy, but heartwarming, light and human: a film about people left-behind. Never lecturing, never mocking and condescending, and driven by a European cast with crackling comedic chemistry: Noémie Merlant, Pio Marmaï, Jonathan Cohen and Mathieu Amalric. It addresses meaningful and current topics of over indebtedness, consumerism, global warming, while in its core is a story of unexpected friendship and romance, with a satirical and comical approach with a very European-centered point of view. In words of the directors: A DIFFICULT YEAR was triggered by a desire to return to theaters and hear audiences laugh once again. We would like to go to Madrid, Warsaw, Roma, to reconnect with audiences and theater exhibitors. It’s not a done deal, but we will do everything in our power to make encounters like that come true. It’s as simple as that!