When Pierre Nin meets Gilles Lelouch in an exceptionally well-crafted legal thriller

Three years after the moving Save or Perish, Frédéric Tellier reunites with Pierre Nin on the screen in a high-tension legal thriller. its title? Goliath.

Set in 2021, this 120-minute feature film warns viewers about the agricultural environment and what we eat. We follow three personalities who should never have crossed paths, but instead, they collide, crash and burn.

These three closely related destinies are France (Emmanuel Bercot), a sports teacher by day and a worker by night, against the use of pesticides, Patrick (Gilles Lelouch), a lonely Parisian lawyer, a specialist in environmental law and finally. Mathias (Pierre Nin), brilliant and busy lobbyist, defender of the interests of the agrochemical giant.

A powerful and captivating thriller, brought to the screen by a powerful trio, which saw the light of day thanks to the filmmaker’s five years of research Frederick Tellier : “This investigative work in any case gave birth to the first version of a 70-page story with about ten characters, with the idea that it would be a mosaic film where everything fits together to observe how the power of evil interferes with men. General.”

The essential environmental thriller

based on a true story, Goliath is a powerful legal thriller, the title of which clearly refers to the biblical giant that David fights against.

Here the colossus is none other than the almighty agrochemical group represented by A Pierre Nin as a determined, arrogant and hateful lobbyist, while David is played by farmers, as well as Gilles Lelouch who wears a lawyer’s robe.

An intense encounter from which we do not come out unscathed, as revealed by the many reviews posted on AlloCiné: “A fascinating and thrilling drama that will be both depressing and brutal.”, “Amazing, disorienting, we thought we knew, but we knew almost nothing!”, “A perfectly executed and successful science thriller”or even “Gilles Lelouch and Pierre Nin They are amazingly skilled at weaving this fascinating web, which is sure to trouble some large spiders.

And it wasn’t just AlloCiné internet users who won. On its first day in theaters, Goliath topped the national box office. Overall, the feature film had 779,470 admissions, which is less of a success, but which has the merit of raising collective awareness.

while leaving GoliathThe main actor of “The Count of Monte Cristo” especially said: “We hope this can renew that debate and challenge politicians to their lies.” Did you really win the bet?

Tonight on France 2 at 21:10.