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Switch (2011)
In Montreal, the unemployed fashion designer Sophie Malaterre is shown a website, switch.com, where it is possible to switch houses with a stranger for vacation. Sophie seeks an apartment in Paris nearby the Eiffel Tower that belongs to Bénédicte Serteaux and they change apartments. Sophie arrives in Paris on Saturday morning. The next morning, policemen break in the apartment and arrest Sophie while she is having a bath. Detective Damien Forgeat interrogates Sophie believing that she is Bénédicte and she learns that a beheaded body was found in her room and all evidence of her life has been deleted.
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In Montreal, the unemployed fashion designer Sophie Malaterre is shown a website, switch.com, where it is possible to switch houses with a stranger for vacation. Sophie seeks an apartment in Paris nearby the Eiffel Tower that belongs to Bénédicte Serteaux and they change apartments. Sophie arrives in Paris on Saturday morning. The next morning, policemen break in the apartment and arrest Sophie while she is having a bath. Detective Damien Forgeat interrogates Sophie believing that she is Bénédicte and she learns that a beheaded body was found in her room and all evidence of her life has been deleted.
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Genre:Crime, Action, Thriller
Written By:Jean-Christophe Grangé, Frédéric Schoendoerffer
In Theaters:6/6/2011
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Runtime:104 minutes
Studio:France 2 Cinéma, Pathé, Carcharodon, L&G, Jouror Productions, Tercera Prod
Cast
Frédéric Schoendoerffer
Director
Éric Cantona
Damien Forgeat
Karine Vanasse
Sophie Malaterre
Mehdi Nebbou
Stéphane Defer
Aurélien Recoing
Delors
Karina Testa
Bénédicte Serteaux
Niseema Theillaud
Alice Serteaux
Bruno Todeschini
Verdier
Maxim Roy
Claire Marras
Sophie Faucher
Marianne Malaterre
Karim Saleh
Kourosh
Cyril Lecomte
Koskas
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