Final Set

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Final Set

2021,

1h 45m,

Drama

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Once described as a young professional tennis prodigy, Thomas (Cesar-winner Alex Lutz) never had the career in the game he had hoped for. At 37, he decides to return to the French Open at Rolland Garros, in spite of his declining physical fitness and shattered knee. Although his wife Eve (Ana Girardot) and mother Judith (Oscar-nominee Kirstin Scott Thomas) advise him to give up on his unlikely ambition, Thomas obsessively perseveres. He will have to face his own demons as well as the intense competitive qualifying rounds to reach the tournament and eventually face a young tennis genius who disturbingly reminds him of his younger self.

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Randy Myers

San Jose Mercury News

Aug 26, 2021

3.5/4

"Final Match" is a winner, adroit at probing the obsessive mindset of a star athlete and his tortured battle with his ego and past failures on the court.

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Mark Dujsik

Mark Reviews Movies

Aug 27, 2021

2/4

[The] movie presents this character and this situation with little insight beyond his obsession and with an increasing reliance on assorted clichés.

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Avi Offer

NYC Movie Guru

Aug 25, 2021

8.91822/10

Genuinely poignant, captivating and profound. Like many great sports films, it's not really about the sport.

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Jen Johans

Film Intuition

Aug 25, 2021

As invested in the human story as it is in its tennis.

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Neely Swanson

Easy Reader (California)

Aug 25, 2021

Character studies don't get more intense or complex than Quentin Reynaud's new film, Final Set... Alex Lutz as Thomas Edison is a revelation.

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Bradley Gibson

Film Threat

Aug 23, 2021

8/10

Reynaud, in Final Set, achieves what few directors have in elevating the sports film genre to cinematic art.

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Thomas J. Edison

Ana Girardot

Eve

Kristin Scott Thomas

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Once described as a young professional tennis prodigy, Thomas (Cesar-winner Alex Lutz) never had the career in the game he had hoped for. At 37, he decides to return to the French Open at Rolland Garros, in spite of his declining physical fitness and shattered knee. Although his wife Eve (Ana Girardot) and mother Judith (Oscar-nominee Kirstin Scott Thomas) advise him to give up on his unlikely ambition, Thomas obsessively perseveres. He will have to face his own demons as well as the intense competitive qualifying rounds to reach the tournament and eventually face a young tennis genius who disturbingly reminds him of his younger self.

Director: Quentin Reynaud
Producer: Léonard Glowinski
Screenwriter: Quentin Reynaud
Distributor: Film Movement
Production Co: Ciné+, Taxshelter. be, Les Films du Crocodile, 22h22, GapBusters, Cofimage 31, StudioCanal, Shelter prod, Canal+, Praesens-Film, Ciné@, Tax Shelter du Gouvernement Fédéral Belge, Apollo Film
Genre: Drama
Original Language: French (France)
Release Date (Theaters): Aug 27, 2021, Limited
Release Date (Streaming): Oct 18, 2021
Runtime: 1h 45m

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