Black box : a success for Pierre Niney and Yann Gozlan
Before becoming Edmond Dantès in The Count of Monte Cristo (whose release was brought forward by six months), Pierre Niney it has proven that it can transport any type of film. Even a paranoid thriller is nice Black box, which marked the year 2021 when it hit theaters. In fact, the film had garnered more than 1 million viewers. It was then the 21st biggest hit of the year in France. A figure that is all the more respectable in a period that is still complicated for cinemas due to the Covid pandemic.
Furthermore, French genre films don’t reach this score that often. Moreover, Black box is its far ahead director Yann Gozlan’s biggest success to date An ideal man (670,000 registrations). Suffice it to say, the arrival of the film on Netflix (from March 13, 2024) should give another big spotlight to this thriller that is worth the detour.
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The first interest of Black box it is the original universe in which it takes place. In fact, it’s inside the BEA (Office of Investigation and Analysis for Civil Aviation Safety) that we discover Mathieu Vasseur (Pierre Niney). After a plane crash, is tasked with investigating the device’s black box. Tasked with analyzing the sound recordings, Mathieu, a very rigorous man, will detect sounds that will make him conclude that it could be a terrorist attack. But after the end of his investigations, the technician begins to doubt. Could there be a conspiracy behind this story? Or is Mathieu simply becoming more and more paranoid?
A realistic thriller that convinced everyone
Pierre Niney excels in this almost autistic role, constantly closing himself in a sound bubble. Sound work by Yann Gozlan is remarkable and creates an increasingly worrying atmosphere as the minutes pass. It must be said that the filmmaker adopts a very realistic approach, which is also noted by some experts. What if viewers responded during the theatrical release of Black boxeven the press applauded the director’s proposal.
In our review, we presented the film as “an extremely effective thriller” (see our opinion), while Marie Claire he saw it as “a harrowing and totally gripping thriller”. TV for leisure he went in the same direction, speaking of an “engaging, exciting and above all exciting” film. And if we mentioned the sobriety of the staging as a real quality, this was also the case with CinemaTeaser: “An effective, timely and paranoid thriller a nice formal dressIn the end, with an average of 3.8/5 out of 33 press publications grouped together for Allociné, and 4.2/5 for spectators, Black box seems to be one of the best French thrillers of recent years. Furthermore, the film was nominated 5 times for the César in 2022.
Source: Cine Serie
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