The cinema outings of the week with Thierry Fiorile and Matteu Maestracci: “I will always see your faces” by Jeanne Herry and “Grand Paris” by Martin Jauvat.
“I will always see your faces” by Jeanne Herry
Supervised and prepared by mediators, victims go to prison to meet detainees, convicted for comparable acts, not those obviously suffered by these victims. The word as a link, as a bandage, also as a means of awareness. It’s fragile, uncertain, but it’s a way to go further than the sanction and the material reparation offered by justice at the time of the trial.
The film follows one of these workshops: three victims, three prisoners and at the same time, a young woman who wants to meet her brother who raped her when she was younger and who has just served his sentence. The subject is fascinating, for Jeanne Herry it is a way of showing her mastery of directing actors in an austere universe, a few chairs in a prison room. Contract completed for the director, who brings out beautiful moments of humanity, with a varied cast: Miou-Miou, Leïla Bekhti, Gilles Lellouche, Fred Testot, Birane Ba and Dali Benssalah give flesh to all these characters.
“Grand Paris” by Martin Jauvat
It’s a kind of road movie but ecological, since almost all trips are made by public transport, and a buddy movie film of friends which embarks us with Renard and Leslie, two young people of our time, a little dreamers and galley slaves. They have to carry a mysterious package and find themselves stranded in the Chevreuse valley. The short film (1h12) will accompany them all night.
The opportunity to pay homage to this Parisian suburb, at the same time very extended, impersonal but so recognizable, its qualities, its faults and even its mysteries, and a deceptively light and schoolboy film, with a political background according to its director. We are therefore at the same time in the pure regressive comedy, the film with social anchoring, a declaration of love for the Île-de-France region and sidesteps eyeing science fiction or adventure film , the supporting roles like William Lebghil or Sébastien Chassagne are very endearing and lunar.