Icarus Films Preps The Domestic DVD Debut Of Director Emmanuel Poulain-Arnaud’s The Test For An Oct. 11 Launch

Icarus Films will be teaming up with France’s premiere film production and distribution company, Distrib Films, on Oct. 11 for the domestic DVD debut of director Emmanuel Poulain-Arnaud’s The Test.

The Castillon family has it all, a solid marriage between Annie (Alexandra Lamy — You Choose!, Vincent, Rolling to You) and her husband Laurent (Philippe Katerine — Sink or Swim, Petite Solange), who have two perfect older sons — Maximilian (Joaquim Fossi) and César (Matteo Perez) — a teenage daughter, Poupi (Chloé Gaillard), who never complains or whines about pitching in to help out with her younger brother Antoine.   Perfect … harmonious.

But then Annie finds that thing in the bathroom!   A mystery that might even put the great Sherlock Holmes to the test begins to unfold.   Or maybe the more descriptive word would be “unravel” … instead of unfold.  

Yes, that’s the word … the harmony of the Castillon household begins to unravel!!

What is the “thing” that sets Annie into mega-detective mode?   A positive pregnancy test left behind in the bathroom!!   Have the perfect sons been up to mischief with a girlfriend (or two … who, what, when and where, oh my)?   The perfect daughter, has she been too perfect; too wonderful?   And what of Laurent, has he gone off the reservation?

The Test, filmed in Marseille, Montpellier and other locations around France, is a delightful French comedy — something of a screwball throwback — that arrives in the domestic marketplace virtually unseen (thank you, DVD … that opportunity arrives on Oct. 11).  

The “mystery” of the “thing” is presented in French with English subtitles.