6 years after the comedy Amoureux de ma femme, his last film behind the camera, Daniel Otey returns this year with a new feature film directed by him and he is the first to be surprised. “Although it is a great pleasure for me, I honestly thought that I would never direct a film again. If you don’t feel overwhelmed by the overwhelming need to say something, he says in the press kit.
And so it happened that day when my daughter slowwho made this movie Hugo GelinHe introduced me to a blog run by a late lawyer, Jean-Yves Moyart, under the pseudonym Maître Mô. That’s how he wanted to return to directing and start a project that was very far from his previous films. Presented at a special screening at the 77th Cannes Film Festival and opening in theaters on September 11, The Wire is a painfully experimental film inspired by a true story.
After he acquitted a repeat murderer, Meister Jean Monnier no longer prosecutes criminal cases. A meeting with his father, Nikolas Milik, accused of murdering his wife, affects him and breaks his uncertainty. Convinced of his client’s innocence, he is willing to do anything to help him win the case, thus rediscovering the meaning of his vocation.
Daniel Auteuil pulls a double hat here and even triples by writing the screenplay, playing the lawyer in charge of the case. A very popular actor in French society, in recent years we have seen him in the films Un Silence, Le Nouveau Cadeau and Adieu Monsieur Haffmann.
To accompany him on the screen, he was surrounded by Grégoire Gadebois (Les Choses simples), Sidse Babett Knudsen (Children), Alice Belaïdi (Un P’tit truc en plus), Soulian Brahim from Comédie Française (Je will always see your faces). ) and Gaitan Russel.
In addition to being selected at the Cannes Film Festival, the film was also presented at several festivals and most notably won the Audience Award at the La Baule Film and Film Music Festival last June.
Discover the drama at the Le Fil cinema on September 11, 2024.
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