Eva & Leon (French title: L'Echappée Belle) 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 (Nicole Delecroix).
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
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