Eva & Leon
# Eva & Leon

Eva & Leon (French title: L'Echappée Belle) is a 2015 French drama film written and directed by Émilie Cherpitel. The movie was a submission to the 82nd Academy Awards for Best Foreign Language Film.

## Plot

The movie is about a privileged woman and an orphaned boy who become friends.

Leon and his older brother, Arnaud, were abandoned in a park in Lyon.

They are seen as outcasts by a social worker, who considers both the brothers mentally ill and the only solution is sending them to a children’s home.

With the help of two teachers, Leon and Arnaud are put in an English-language school run by a kind but rough-around-the-edges teacher called Isabelle (Nicole Delecroix).

## Cast

* Clotilde Hesme as Eva
* Florian Lemaire as Léon
* Peter Coyote as The father
* Keziah Jones as John
* Clotilde Courau as Lucie
* Yannick Choirat as Simon
* Idit Cebula as Madame Agostini
* Grégoire Bonnet as a psychiatrist
* Joséphine de La Baume as Simone
* Christophe Dimitri Réveille as Jérôme
* Frédéric Beigbeder as Richard
* David Serero as the Italian Crooner
