Gilles Lellouche hits the big screen at the Toronto Film Festival on Wednesday as the star of Cédric Jimenez ’s high-octane, sci-fi thriller Dog 51 , which makes its North American premiere as a special presentation after a Venice debut.

Adapted from the 2022 novel of the same by Laurent Gaudé, the movie unfolds in a dystopian near-future Paris, in which social order is controlled by a mysterious AI entity called Alma.

The French capital has been divided into the three zones comprising Zone 1, for the elite; Zone 2, for the well-heeled professional and entrepreneurial classes, and Zone 3, a crime-riddled area where people struggle to make ends meet.

Lellouche stars as unlikely hero Zem, a disillusioned Zone 3 cop with an idealistic militant past, who is teamed with haughty high

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