Le Fil: The Sordid True Story Behind Daniel Auteuil’s Thriller

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For this end of summer, French cinema offers a good number of highly successful films. Among them, some come from the 2024 Cannes Film Festival, for example Jim’s novel AND Emilia Perezas well as The threadnew production by Daniel Auteuil. This, a dark and twisted legal thriller, after the warm welcome on the Croisette, is in theaters from September 11, 2024 (our review here).

Brilliantly driven, The thread tells the story of Jean Monier (Daniel Auteuil), a criminal lawyer who returns to a murder case, years after having acquitted a guilty and repeat offender. Marked by this experience, he has not defended anyone accused of murder since then, but the case of Nicolas Milik (Grégory Gadebois) touches and obsesses him. He, accused of the murder of his wife, proclaims his innocence. But nothing indicates that he is innocent, and the few pieces of evidence in the file seem to prove the opposite, deeming him guilty. Against all odds, convinced of his innocence, Jean Monier will defend him and hope for his acquittal.

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A Terrible True Story (SPOILER)

The thread It is inspired by a first story, published by Maître Mô on his blog in 2011 and titled In ambush. Lawyer Jean-Yves Moyart told this story as he did with others, assuming his subjectivity, his doubts, explaining his relationship with his “client”. So, more than the case itself, the idea is to tell emotions, a thought process, the humanistic studies in a court, the confrontation with crimes and the judicial machine that deals with these crimes. It is therefore this personality, that of a lawyer and his defects, that constitute the common thread of Daniel Auteuil’s film.

But the facts of this subjective story, the question that Jean Monier deals with The thread and Jean-Yves Moyart himself in his text, is in fact at true storyoccurred about ten years before the 2011 incident. The facts are real, but the names have been changed.

This murder case concerns, one morning in a small village in the North, the discovery in a ditch of the body of Geneviève, whose throat had been cut during the night. Suspicion immediately falls on the husband Ahmed, the couple and the parents of 6 children who had argued violently – and again – the day before. Ahmed went to his friend Roger’s bar to complain, and Geneviève, drunk and furious, was then left alone in the night. In front of the police Ahmed openly denies. He did not kill his wife, neither alone nor with Roger, with whom he did however speak, late at night in his bar, on the night of the murder, of wanting to “get rid of” her.

Total denial

Ahmed will never stop denying. The testimonies pile up, Roger’s partner says he came home drunk the night of the murder, and collapsed on the bed, fully dressed, huffing and puffing.I did it, damn it, I did it…” In his bar, the weapon that everyone indicates as the murder weapon is immediately found, a serrated survival knife with an “American” handle, just cleaned. But both men deny it.

The investigation of the case takes time and during the investigation Ahmed and Roger are detained, each in a different prison. During the detention, before the trial, Roger dies. The lawyer, taking the opportunity to make Ahmed admit that Roger killed his wife – material elements that tend to accuse Roger more gesture that Ahmed – then tries to convince him to “accuse” his former friend. An effort in vain, because Ahmed refuses to allow Roger to be accused and claims that Roger did nothing.

Ahmed does not defend himself very well and does not make a good impression on the jurors of the Assize Court. But the dossier is very fragile. No motive emerges: if Ahmed had once thought about divorce, he would not have followed through with the idea. And he would not have gained any economic advantage from the divorce or from the death of his wife. And above all, to the lawyer he appears to be very much in love with his wife and protective of his children. The evidence against him is real and well-established, but the proof is lacking. mobile : because it is not irresponsible or unreasonable, “Why“Would Ahmed have killed his wife? The lawyer feels it too deeply, he is convinced: Ahmed is innocent.

Initially mysterious confessions… (SPOILER)

At the end of the deliberations, the jurors and magistrates of the Assize Court found Ahmed guilty and sentenced him to 20 years of criminal imprisonment. Devastated, stunned, disappointed, the lawyer goes to Ahmed’s side, in the courthouse, before his departure for prison. When he arrives to try to cheer him up and suggest that he appeal the decision, he is violently stunned. Smiling, Ahmed then makes a terrible confession to him..

Come on, Master, I couldn’t tell you, I know I would have disappointed you… But yes, I did. I did… That’s why I didn’t want you to accuse Roger, when he was still alive, poor guy: he was there, he saw everything, but all he did was let me take his knife…

Stunned, the lawyer nevertheless articulates a “Why ?Ahmed does not answer this question and simply shakes his head. Destroyed by his illusions, devastated by the confession of his client who he believed viscerally innocent, the lawyer thinks that the matter ends there, and that he will never get the truth. motive for Ahmed’s murder.

A late complete resolution

But seven years later, the juvenile brigade contacted the lawyer’s office, stating that they had Ahmed in custody and that he had asked to speak to him. Since Ahmed is detained after his conviction for murder, the lawyer realizes that it is probably for previous acts that he was put in police custody. Ahmed will then tell him a family history as secret as it is terrifying, and will explain why he killed his wife…

This is what it looks like, insidea terrifying and gripping epiloguewhich concludes The threadthe movie is very faithful to the true story of Master Mô, the final and terrible elements of which will not be revealed here.

Source: Cine Serie

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