With the screening of the detective film “Roubaix, une lumière” on Arte this Sunday evening, focus on the shocking documentary that inspired Arnaud Desplechin.
Directed by Roshdi Zem and Léa Seydoux, Roubaix, Light marks Arnaud Desplechin’s first foray into crime fiction. For this realistic film broadcast on Arte this Sunday evening, the director drew on a story from 2002: the murder of an elderly man by a couple of young drug addicts, transcribed into a documentary where they confessed to the crime. “Rubai Central Police Station, current affairs”. This strong immersion, which also focuses on other types of business, has been implemented Moscow Buko in 2002 and then aired for the first time in 2008.
Because of their haunting authenticity, the documentary’s images particularly noted Arnaud Desplechin. “As the prologue of the script indicates: I wanted to offer nothing here for the imagination, to invent nothing, except for the recycling of images seen on television 10 years ago and which I have not stopped since.– says the director. “Why have I never been able to forget those pictures? It’s because I can usually only identify with the victims. I don’t like executioners very much. And for the first and only time in my life, in two criminals, I discovered two sisters.”
Reenactment of the murder of an old lady by the police and two criminals.
without comment or judgement, “Rubai Central Police Station, current affairs” There is a special documentary about police work and crime in this northern French city (where the unemployment rate is one of the highest in France). Like Arnaud Desplechin, Mosco Bucco did not want to show Roubaix in a too pathetic way: the investigators are firm but sympathetic and the accused appear terribly banal, even human (even in the case of the two murderers).
Released in 2019 Rube, the light It reached about 380,000 admissions in France. A pretty good score considering its anti-spectacular aspect. It was also very well received by the press and got people talking about it through various festivals, such as Cannes, where it was presented in competition. At the 2020 César, Arnaud Desplechin’s film was nominated in seven categories and was eligible Roshdi Zem The title of the best actor. A well-deserved award, as the actor excels in the shoes of this experienced and humane commissioner.
Antoine Reinartz invites “Rube, the light”:
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