Tonight on TV: Anatomy of the Fall is great, but this Cesar-winning film deserves kudos, too!

Tonight on TV: Anatomy of the Fall is great, but this Cesar-winning film deserves kudos, too!

2023 was the year of the experimental film. Of course, with the anatomy of the fall, which caused a world sensation, but also, in the shadow of the latter, with the masterful Goldman court.

Directed by Cédric Kahn, this work of great intensity, brilliantly written, and which won Arie Vorthalter a César for Best Actor, is not to be missed. Good news: The Goldman trial Can be held tonight in your living room.

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Pierre Goldman, the face of far-left activism championed by Simone de Beauvoir, Jean-Paul Sartre, Simone Signore, and other cultural luminaries, is an intellectual who turned to gangsterism in the 1970s.

Convicted at first instance of criminal imprisonment for a robbery, one of which left two victims, the man, who is the older half-brother of a certain Jean-Jacques Goldman, was in the spotlight during his second trial.

It was the latter, which occurred between November 1975 and May 1976, for four armed robberies, including one that resulted in the deaths of two pharmacists. The Goldman trial come back.

This is from his book, Vague memories of a Polish Jew born in Francethat Cedric Kahn Discovered by Pierre Goldman, about fifteen years before he dedicated a film to it.

“It’s not his innocence that stands out for me, it’s his language, extraordinary. His style, his dialectic, his thinking. I tell myself that we have to do something with this book, in cinema.”says the director, who rejected the idea of ​​a biopic to concentrate on the trial.

Impressive Arieh Worthalter

What impresses you the most? The Goldman trialHe is the one who plays the activist and intellectual on screen: a Franco-Belgian actor Arie Waralter. “He had everything to play Goldman: physique, intelligence, strength”Note Cedric Kahn.

“The word that comes to me spontaneously to sum up Arie’s work is density. He brings that density to everything he does. We see it from the very first shot of him sitting in his cell with his eyes raised.”

Now it’s up to you to keep an eye on it The Goldman trial inevitable.

Tonight on Canal+ at 21:10.

Trailer for “Anatomy of the Fall,” 2023’s other big experimental film:

Source: Allocine

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