Isaki Lacuesta directs Nahuel Pérez Biscayart, Noémie Merlant, Quim Gutiérrez and Alba Guilera in a brilliant drama based on true events.
Isaki Lacuesta has always had a predilection for people (rather than characters) when it comes to turning them into the protagonists of their own stories. That is why it is not surprising that the first adaptation of a book that he deals with in his career is precisely an autobiographical story. In ‘Peace, love and death metal’, the Spaniard Ramón González expressed his experience in the Bataclan room on the day of the jihadist attacks in a way that was as precise as it was crude, but most of the story took place later, during the long ordeal that went through in overcoming the trauma. The life he had led up to that moment stopped making sense, his relationship with his partner fell apart and his professional priorities changed.
Isa Campo and Isaki Lacuesta (together with Fran Araújo) absorb all this material to compose a deconstructed narrative that swings between the superimposition of the past (which is concentrated in one night, the terrible night) and the present (which takes place throughout one year). Time will pass, days will pass, but those images of horror will always accompany them.
The director avoids any sensationalism when approaching the massacre. We will never see the terrorists, nor the bodies, only the sensation of panic and desperation of the protagonists through those terrible fragments that are part of their wounded memory and that reach the viewer in the form of bursts, of unstructured memories, of sensations. It is one of the great discoveries of the film, that this cinematographic structure is, in addition to being very intelligent, enormously sensitive when it comes to approaching the ghosts of the characters and that all its complicated device is diluted and becomes a revealing experience in front of in our eyes. ‘One year, one night’ thus becomes a symphony of images that throb, that lead us from pain to hope, from frustration to catharsis, from the particular to the universal to talk about fear in all its forms.
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DATA SHEET
Address: Isaki Lacuesta Distribution: Nahuel Pérez Biscayart, Noémie Merlant, Quim Gutiérrez, Alba Guilera Country: Spain Year: 2022 Release date: 21–10-2022 Gender: Drama Script: Isa Campo, Isaki Lacuesta, Fran Araújo. Book: Ramon Gonzalez Duration: 120 minutes
Synopsis: Ramón and Céline are a young couple who meet at the local Bataclan in Paris on the night of November 13, 2015. During the terrorist attack, both manage, each on their own, to enter the musicians’ dressing room and take refuge there . When they leave they are no longer the same. And they don’t know if they can be again…
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