On the eve of the release of Revoir Paris, starring Virginie Efira and Benoit Magimel, here are five things you need to know about this drama that throws attacks into the post-traumatic prism.
See Paris again by Alice Winokur
Virgin with Efira, Benoit Magimel, Grégoire Colin…
What is it about? 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.
The witness is the film director’s brother
Revoir Paris is fiction, but certainly reminds us of the attacks of 2015: Charlie Hebdo, especially the Bataclan. Alisa Vinokur confides: “My brother was in the Bataclan on November 13. While he was hiding, I stayed on the SMS link with him for part of the night.”
“The film is built from the memories of this traumatic event, then from my brother’s story in the days following the attack. I experienced firsthand how the memory was distorted and often reconstructed.”
Psychology of trauma

During the documentation phase, Alisa Vinokur met with psychiatrists who spoke to her about the concept of “a diamond in the heart of trauma.” These are the positive things that happen around a traumatic event (such as strong bonds between people that are formed that would not have happened without the event). The director explains:
“I was also told about the phenomenon of flashbacks and the disorder of ‘involuntary recurrent memory’, which is very different from memory and the classic flashback in cinema. Here we are talking about reviving a traumatic experience of the past, which suddenly and unintentionally. It conjures up mental images that burst into consciousness like a flash, a kind of psychic attack.”
Presented at the Cannes Film Festival

The film was screened at the Quinzaine des Réalisateurs at the 76th Cannes Film Festival. Alice Winokur knows the Croisette well because she introduced Augustine and Maryland there. He was also a member of the Critics’ Week jury in 2016.
During the trial of the explosions

Filming for Revoir Paris began shortly after the trial began on November 13, 2021, in the fall of 2021. Alisa Vinokur recalls: “It was quite dizzying. When we shot scenes like flowers in honor of the victims, the passers-by were so excited that we had to put up big ‘filming’ signs to avoid confusion. In my head, during the filming of the film, reality and fantasy merged very much.”
Capture the attack…

Alyssa Winokur filmed the bombing series with a radical bias. The director wanted the audience to see only the feet of the terrorists and hear (almost) only the sound of the machine guns: “I decided to take the strict point of view of Mia, who is on her stomach and only sees the feet of the attackers. That’s all he remembers clearly. More generally, how do you show an attack?”
“My brother told me that an attack is unimaginable. An attack is a denial of thought, it cannot be shown. He told me to go to the fantasy, to the fantasy. Even if Mia’s memories do not match, in the presence. The ghosts, the victims are still there, in her head.”
Source: allocine

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