Virgin Broadcasting is one of the essentials of this return to cinema. In anticipation of “Other People’s Children,” he plays Alice Winokur’s drama loosely inspired by the Nov. 13 attacks at the Revoir in Paris this Wednesday.
In Paris, Mia is attacked in a brasserie. Three months later, when she has still not managed to recover the course of her life and only remembers the events, Mia decides to explore her memory to find a way to life. Possible happiness.
After Proxima, with Eva Green in an astronaut suit, filmmaker Alyssa Winokur tackles the theme of the attacks in Revoir Paris, a film far from being inspired by the Bataclan. This fiction makes the decision to show the issue of traumatic memory first. In other words, how can such drama affect memories.
This year, the film presented at the Directors’ Fortnight at the Cannes Film Festival was warmly received.
Alyssa Winokur, originally from Paris, set her camera in Paris for the first time and showed the city in a way rarely seen on film. He takes on a bruised Paris, injured by the attacks, as the character himself.
We all remember this tonight
“I was inspired by my own memory– the director told us during an interview at the Cannes Film Festival. It was inspired by the overnight, November 13, 2015, attacks in Paris. We all remember that tonight. For me it was a bit special and maybe traumatic in my memory because my little brother was in the attacks. He survived. He was at the Bataclan and I was on the SMS link with him. So I was inspired by the conversations I was able to have with him in the days and months that followed.
“The special thing is that in the meantime I made a movie called Proxima, which was set in space and had nothing to do with it. But the desire, the need for this film caught mehe continues. I decided to go into fiction so it wouldn’t be the Bataclan attack or any other real attack. Let it be a dummy attack. Because I don’t care about the attack.”
It’s more of a healing, resilience film. It is more about life than death
“What I’m interested in is the mark that he left on the city, among the victims. On the other hand, he was really nourished by meetings, as I was able to do for my other films. Man, I really discovered the world of survivors that created. I went to these people. It’s a mix with these people , with psychiatrists, with specialists. It’s a topic that I’m very interested in, it was already a Maryland topic that I presented a few years ago in Cannes, about post-traumatized soldiers who come back. From Afghanistan, with Matthias Schnoaerts. I really wanted to talk about resilience. It’s more of a healing, resilience film. It is more about life than death“, he emphasizes.
The heroine of Revoir Paris is, of course, first and foremost Virgin Efira, attractive in almost every frame of this feature film, which offers her a beautiful, dense and complex new role. His connection with Benoit Magimel is wonderful and works very well on screen.
We were able to interview Virgin Efira at the Cannes Film Festival. The interview, which you can find in the video above (compressed version) or the longer version below, in audio podcast format:
In this new school year, Virgin Efira is also waiting for Rebecca Zlotowski’s The Children of Others, which will be released on September 21. As for Benoît Magimel, he can be seen in the adventure comedy Jack Mimoun and the Secrets of Val Verde by Malik Bentalha and Ludovic Colbaud-Justin on the big screen on October 12, and then Albert Serra’s Quiet Mastery – Tour sur les îles. competition in Cannes this year and which will be released in cinemas on November 9.
Interview at the 2022 Cannes Film Festival
Source: allocine
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