The Great Game

Pierre Blum has seen decidedly better times, some fifteen years ago when he made the big time with his debut novel. Since then he's an also-ran of the belles lettres, as well as a failure in his private life. While attending the wedding of an ex, he meets a charismatic elder gentleman gambler, Joseph Paskin, who offers him a strange but decidedly intriguing-sounding job: he will pay him to ghost-write a book for him – a call to arms-cum-manual for insurrection. (International Film Festival Rotterdam)