9 Month Stretch

Ariane Felder is pregnant. This is all the more surprising since this examining magistrate is an old-fashioned single person. But even more surprising is the fact that, according to DNA tests, the father is no other than Bob, a criminal prosecuted for atrocious assault and battery. Ariane, who does not remember anything, tries to understand what happened.

• Sandrine Kiberlain as Ariane Felder
• Albert Dupontel as Bob Nolan
• Nicolas Marié as Attorney Trolos
• Philippe Uchan as Judge Bernard
• Gilles Gaston-Dreyfus as Monsieur De Lime
• Christian Hecq as Lieutenant Édouard
• Philippe Duquesne as Doctor Toulate
• Laure Calamy as Daisy
• Terry Gilliam as Charles Meatson, Famous Man Eater
• Yolande Moreau as Bob's mother
• Bouli Lanners as policeman
• Michel Fau as gynecologist
• Jean Dujardin as sign language interpreter
• Ray Cooper as CNN journalist
• Gaspar Noé as bald inmate #1
• Jan Kounen as bald inmate #2
• Babetida Sadjo as The victim of the sink

Dupontel was inspired by 10e chambre, instants d'audience, a documentary by Raymond Depardon in which judge Michèle Bernard-Requin appears. Bernard-Requin also plays a judge in Neuf mois ferme.

Dupontel originally intended to make Neuf mois ferme his first English-language film, with Emma Thompson playing Ariane Felder.

The name of the coroner Toulate ("too late") character comes from this first intention.[4] He chose to name his main character Ariane in reference to Ariadne as this character loses the thread. Attorney Trolos' name means stutterer in Ancient Greek.

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