Netflix: this thriller starring Guillaume Canet based on true events will make your blood run cold

Next time I’ll aim for the heart: Guillaume Canet chilling

Released ten years ago, the thriller Next time I’ll aim for the heart directed by Cédric Anger has just arrived on Netflix. And knowing the public’s appetite for thrillers based on sordid news events, there is no doubt that the film directed by Guillaume Canet risks quickly rising to the top of the most watched feature films.

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The plot takes place in the late 1970s in the Oise, where the tranquility of the region is brutally disturbed by the actions of a maniac. The latter, by attacking young women, creates a climate of anxiety and terror among the inhabitants. First by trying to run over several people with his car, then he moved on to more violent acts, injuring and killing random hitchhikers.

This killer seems elusive and escapes detectives and checkpoints with disconcerting ease, especially because he is, against all expectations, a young and shy gendarme. Leading a seemingly mundane life within his brigade, he is even responsible for investigating his own misdeeds. A model of discipline and dedication to work, his position allows him to always stay one step ahead of the investigation, until the situation gets out of his control.

For his chilling and double interpretation, Guillaume Canet was nominated for the César as best actor in 2015 (award ultimately won by Pierre Niney for the film Yves Saint Laurent).

The true story of Alain Lamare

The film Next time I’ll aim for the heart by Cédric Anger is inspired by the true crime story of Alain Lamare, a French gendarme who committed a series of attacks against women in the late 1970s in the Oise region. The film adaptation is based on the book “A murderer above suspicion” written by Yvan Stefanovitch.

The book details Lamare’s crimes, his double-dealing as a gendarme investigating his misdeeds, and how he was eventually caught. The film, like the book, explores the dual personality of the gendarmebetween the appearance of a man respected by the community and the reality of his actions as a serial killer.

After his arrest, Lamare underwent several psychiatric evaluations to determine his mental state. Reports were conflicting, with some experts declaring him psychotic and therefore criminally irresponsible, while others claimed he was fully aware of his actions. Finally, on the basis of the conclusions of an expert report which diagnosed Lamare with paranoid schizophrenia, the court decided he was unfit to stand trial. This decision prevented the trial from taking place, leaving the victims and their families without a sense of justice. Alain Lamare was treated in a specialized institution and will never be released again.

The Alain Lamare case in chronological order

• May 1978: Discovery of an abandoned car in the Chantilly forest, with a broken window, a blood-stained handkerchief, bullet casings and a robbery plan. This event initially seems harmless, but is actually a prelude to what’s to come.
• July 1978: Alain Lamare commits his first known violent act by shooting a 17-year-old girl three times in the streets of Pont-Sainte-Maxence, wounding her in the leg. This act marks the beginning of a series of attacks against individuals, especially women. Shortly thereafter, he trapped the stolen car used in this attack, causing the vehicle to explode and seriously injuring a peace officer.
• August 1978: Lamare sends an anonymous letter to his colleagues, threatening to “aim for the heart” (which inspired the film’s title) rather than the legs in his next attacks, illustrating his determination to kill.
• November 1978: Deliberately runs over a 20-year-old woman on a bicycle, using a stolen vehicle. Shortly thereafter, the same vehicle was found trapped, injuring another police officer. These acts are followed by a robbery in a post office, where Lamare flees again at the wheel of a stolen car. The footprints found at the scene of the robbery are linked to those left at the sites of other crimes.
• December 1978: A 19-year-old woman is found with gunshot wounds and dies from her injuries. Before she died, she described being picked up by a man who matched Lamare’s description of her. Shortly after, another young woman aged 19 was caught hitchhiking and then killed by Lamare. She survives but remains paralyzed, the victim of spinal injuries.

• April 1979: After stealing the car of minister Georges Gorse and posing as the latter’s son, an identikit is released that increasingly resembles Lamare. This last daring act precedes his arrest, following the recognition of his graphic signature on the anonymous letters and the correlation between his days off and the dates of the crimes.

Source: Cine Serie

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