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The New Life of Paul Sneijder

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The New Life of Paul Sneijder
Directed byThomas Vincent
Written byThomas Vincent
Yaël Cojot-Goldberg
Produced byPierre Forette
Thierry Wong
StarringThierry Lhermitte
Géraldine Pailhas
Pierre Curzi
Guillaume Cyr
CinematographyRonald Plante
Edited byMike Fromentin
Music byPhilippe Deshaies
Lionel Flairs
Benoit Rault
Production
company
Cine Nomine
Distributed bySND Films
Christal Films
Release date
June 8, 2016
Running time
114 minutes
CountriesCanada
France
LanguageFrench

The New Life of Paul Sneijder (Template:Lang-fr) is a Canadian/French drama film, directed by Thomas Vincent and released in 2016.[1]

Based on the novel Le cas Sneijder by Jean-Paul Dubois, the film stars Thierry Lhermitte as Paul Sneijder, a man who is injured in an elevator accident which has also killed his daughter. Suffering an existential crisis which leads him to question the values on which he has based his life, he begins to rebuild his spirit by taking a new job as a dog walker.[1] The film's cast also includes Géraldine Pailhas, Pierre Curzi, Guillaume Cyr and Aliocha Schneider.

Cyr garnered a Prix Iris nomination for Best Supporting Actor at the 19th Prix Iris in 2017.[2]

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