What is it about?
Laura, twenty years old, very beautiful and needy, returns home to find her father Max, an ex-boxer, and Mary, Quentin Le Bars, a driver in the sixties. To facilitate her installation, Max asks the mayor to help her daughter find a place to live…
Between Laura and Quentin Le Bar, a treacherous spiral of desire and infatuation quickly begins to form. From the bodies, the story unfolds like a plea that combines social injustice and political arrogance.
Friday 13 October from 20:55 at Arte. The fiction is available until January 22 at arte.tv.
who is he with
Directed and co-written by Charlene Favier, whose feature debut Slalom was selected in Official Competition at the 2020 Cannes Film Festival, The Girl We Called is a feature film by Alba Gaia Belluji, a young actress seen in Manon, The Legends. The Office and more recently Into The Night.
For the occasion, he stars opposite Pascal Gregory (La Reine Margot, Jeanne du Barry), who plays the violent mayor Quentin Le Barry. The young woman’s father is played by Jean-Pierre Martins, who notably stepped into the shoes of boxer Marcel Cerdan in Olivier Dahan’s La Môme.
Patrick D’Assumsao (Police 1900, Tap), Anne Suarez (Zone Blanche, Cain) and Omar Mebrouk (who plays Karadek’s brother in HPI) round out the cast.
Is it worth checking out?
Adapted from Tang Viel’s 2021 novel, Charlene Favier presents The Girl We Called, a powerful drama about control. “I was the girl they call me“… These are the words that Laura Corret, who came to the police to file a complaint against Quentin Le Bars, introduces herself to the police.
Recently a minister, the man had long been the mayor of the small town in which Laura grew up and where she had returned to live after several years of hardship in Paris. Hosted by her father Max, the mayor’s driver and former boxer, she agrees to go to a meeting with the town councilor to get housing.
Perceiving in the behavior of a young woman all the characteristics of a simple predator, he asks one of his subordinates, the manager of a local casino, to give Laura one of the studios in his establishment. However, this kindness is not free.
It is through the statement that Laura Coret gives to the police that Charlene Favier and her co-author Antoine Lacomblez (Jeux d’influence, Laetitia) reveal the mechanisms of control and domination that make her character a powerless and willing victim.
Because if the young woman really didn’t say “NoTo his executioner, he also did not accept the nature of the counselor’s visits to his small apartment. A gray area that doesn’t work in Laura’s favor, who will have trouble hearing her voice.
Opposite Pascal Gregori, a power-hungry man willing to do anything to satisfy his basic needs, Alba Gaia Baloji imbues the character of Laura with a strength and vulnerability that makes her mesmerizing.
She skillfully transcribes the dissociation of a character who becomes a kind of zombie who no longer has control over her body when Mary abuses her. Faced with silence and hypocrisy from both her colleagues and her father, who seems unwilling to see what his daughter is going through, Laura must find the courage to denounce the former mayor, even if it means losing everything. Because the news repeatedly proved to us: condemning a politician is not in vain…
If the fiction is somewhat lost in the third part, The Girl We Call remains an intense drama that takes on a strong theme and that, thanks to a well-crafted script, manages to get inside the head of the heroine.
Source: Allocine
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