relive after the attacks of November 13, 2015
CRITICISM – Carried by Virginie Efira, Alice Winocour's film is inspired by November 13, 2015 to talk about the trauma of survivors of an attack in the capital. A film far above its competitors on the subject.
Rebuild, she says. Others cannot understand. Mia survived an attack. One evening, this Russian translator had taken shelter from the rain in a brasserie. Killers tumbled, shot at the customers. Since then, the survivor's memory is in tatters. Nothing is like before. His companion wonders what is happening to him. How to explain to him?
Grégoire Colin is torn. Words don't exist to describe the horror, the absurdity. Mia feels guilty. She participates in a support group, meets other survivors. A woman accuses him of having locked himself in the restroom of the restaurant without thinking of his neighbors at the table. Mia has no memory of this episode. She remains silent, casts perplexed, astonished, incredulous looks. At these meetings she meets a banker whose leg bristles with external fixators. Benoit Magimel, intense and penetrating, decidedly impeccable, with a serene humor and a vibrant warmth. You have to see him embed himself in a marriage, first...