PARIS (Reuters) – A film chronicling French President Nicolas Sarkozy's 2007 election and the subsequent collapse of his marriage is creating a buzz -- and plenty of controversy -- ahead of its showing at Cannes this year.
"La Conquete" (The Conquest) by director Xavier Durringer, to be screened out of competition at the May 11-22 Cannes Festival, is billed as a fact-based account of Sarkozy's election victory and his quest the next day to locate his wife Cecilia, as their marriage fell apart.
While few outsiders have seen the movie as the producers' have striven to keep it secret, trailers for it show Sarkozy as a volatile personality, alternately morose and impulsive as he swears at advisers -- "I am surrounded by idiots!" -- and pleads with Cecilia not to leave him.
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