A race against time to find a kidnapped child: Did you know that Six Days is a remake of a Korean thriller never seen before in France?

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Northern France, 2005: Malik, a police inspector, helplessly witnesses the death of a child after being kidnapped. Leading the investigation, he cannot find the killer. Ten years later, with no new information, no trace of a dangerous criminal, the case is finally closed.

But as new facts emerge in the case, Malik begins a race against time, hoping to solve the investigation before the statute of limitations expires. in six days. This is the time left to find the culprit.

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What if you started the year energetically? Of course, January 1st is a public holiday and even falls on some people’s holidays, which is not a luxury to escape the rigors of the holidays. It’s a race against time, though, where Sami Buajilla, Julie Gaye and director Juan Carlos Medina (Insensibles, GOLEM, London’s killer) challenge you not to miss the beat.

Set in northern France and over two time periods, the story begins in 2005 with the tragic outcome of a kidnapping and continues a decade later when Malik, the inspector in charge of the investigation, is faced with the abduction of a new child. operandi seems to rise from the past. A six-day window to find the culprit before the ten-year statute of limitations expires.

The temporal limitation that this feature film has in common with its model. Because Six Days , as its opening credits make clear, is inspired assemblyThe Korean thriller was released in 2013. Jeong Geun-seop’s only film to date, it grossed over $11 million and was even the subject of a Bollywood remake. T3enwhich was a sharp failure in 2016.

But it has never been released in France (on film, video or platform), nor in the United States, where it only received awards at the Palm Springs International Film Festival in January 2014. It’s too early to say whether or not. Six Days will make it possible to fix that, but in the meantime, if its story tells you anything, it’s that you’ve had a chance to see the montage and that the twist that happens at the dawn of the last act won’t surprise you.

Even if it moves its plot to the north of France, the film remains faithful to its model, even in the way in which the story serves as a critique of power. Adding a tail that turns into a chase, in the middle of a group of supporters of the Lille football club, which Korean cinema would not refuse. Like its towering poster, which recalls Endless Rain, the 2018 Chinese thriller that also tells the story of an investigation that turns into an obsession.

Also citing Jean-Pierre Melville (Le Cercle rouge, Le Samouraï) as an influence for this thriller, which focuses on the border between justice and truth, Juan Carlos Medina emphasizes the plausibility of his story, obtained thanks to the help of a former boss. BRI, met at the Beaune Crime Film Festival.

“If the story is justified, it is because the novel took place almost ten years ago”

“He taught me about the operational realism of the police units in the film: the operation at the bus station, the permutations, the layers of the onion in the police system, the way to communicate with the victim who carries the money to make the exchange. “– says the director in the press kit. “He also gave me very useful advice on prescribing.”

“What made the film possible was that until 2017, France had a ten-year statute of limitations for very serious cases like kidnapping that resulted in the death of a child. Then, the new law extended the period to thirty years, if the story is true, because the case happened almost ten years ago, this was an element that had to be ensured, because this legal reality had to be inviolable.

If you’re wondering why most of Six Days’ story takes place in 2015, now you have the answer. See the rest in cinemas. Even if that means starting the film year a little more intense than you planned.