MOKA with Nathalie Baye and Emmanuelle Devos opens in San Francisco

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In Moka, the latest movie by Swiss director Frédéric Mermoud, Nathalie Baye and Emmanuelle Devos give a tremendous performance.

Frédéric Mermoud directed MOKA and co-wrote the scenario based on the novel by French author, Tatiana de Rosnay whose work regularly inspires film makers.

The duel Emmanuelle Devos / Nathalie Baye is the pilar of the movie. They both give an outstanding performance contributind to the suspense and the emotion. You don't want to mess with them. Emmanuelle Devos has a gift to share and deliver oddness, emotion, grief and sorrow, strength and distress. Nathalie Baye is strong, sharp, and beautiful.

The story briefly...

A grieving woman pursues a couple whom she suspects of killing her son in a hit-and-run. To find the driver of the vintage mocha-colored Mercedes, which she thinks, hit her son and devastated her life, Diane Kramer (Emmanuelle Devos) embarks on a trip to take revenge. She goes to Évian, where she has learned the driver of the Mercedes lives, but she now has to face another woman, Marlene (Nathalie Baye) – a beauty salon proprietor and owner of the car. In order to get closer to her, Diane pretends to be a potential buyer for the car, but the path of revenge is more tortuous and complicated than it seems.

The trailer...