Areas: Between Drama and Thriller, the first very trusted movie in the world of football

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At the age of 18, Brahim, a promising young player, represented his agent and cousin Mehd. He intends to realize his dream: to sign his first professional contract in Lyon. But the arrival of a strong foreign agent will update the cards. In this world, where all blows are allowed, even devotion is price.

Dream

Football is popular in the cinema at this time and in various forms, from popular comedy to 4 zero, in Thriller Mercato with Jamel Debbuz, which was released last February. The feature film, from which the first film signed Camila Perton, approaches several aspects, including the existence of agents in the story. In the plural, because the arena orchestrating the prospective player (Ilia’s shot) by two men: his cousin Mehdi (Sophian Khami), who has long been operating his work and a great figure from abroad (Edgar Ramires), who promises Mouns, Wonders and Champions League.

Family and capitalism. Coeur Club vs disproportionate ambition. Oppositions are classic, but they are well organized by a director who gives his drama a thriller atmosphere (without the slightest element of the police) and signs a film that sounds at all levels. Including several football in the Achilles’ heel in almost every opus in the community, where staging is unable to make a real match uncertainty and unpredictability.

Success, which is largely affected by numerous studies by its filmmaker: “It was more stimulated after it was younger, I hesitated to consider the journalism and the cinema!” Said Camila Perton in the press. “With this movie, I really had the feeling that they were approaching writing as an investigation.

“The world of football has no interest that we look at it very closely”

“So, I have added a lot about preliminary surveys and reports, such as” Football Leak “published by Der Spiegel and Mediapart (this is more than 18.6 million documents related to the work of international football instances that have led to the aspect of the results). Ascend: “I have focused on the back of the decoration on the back of the young players, those who have not yet been decorated.”

“They were told when they return to the training center that they only have one dream, and if they scatter, they are doomed to failure. What he has seen higher is obstructed between the drama and the thriller, without the desire to decline all the price of the genre: “I noticed that the environment was very permissible, not really supervised.

“This collision is born with stories, a romantic, tragic and mafia dimension. It was immediately caught. In fact, very fast, I went out of an overly realistic approach.

Quotes Francis Ford Coppola and its leader Gordon Willis on the godfather (“The mafia is very elegant, the temptations”), The director spent three months at the Grand Club Training Center to complete his approach and allow the neophytes to stop their delays for those who already know the stories of many owners and can cite the names of the players who left their formal subject to sign the contract.

Do not wait for the arena that he is moving the profession as he shows both players and capitalism instruments, and, without the refusal of fiction, develops a trusted vision of what remains the wonderful vector of the social ascent, as well as the giant basket of crabs in which everyone wants to share his cake. “Football is a game before the product is. Sports before you become a market. Show before the business turns”He says this quote from Michel Platinum, which opens the film, the latter manages to connect all these aspects.