How do you survive when you are constantly attacked for no reason? In “Vincent Must Die”, Stéphan Castang responds by making his hero, played by Karim Leklou, wear the trappings of a man forced to switch to survival and self-defense mode. The result is both distressing and optimistic.
Vincent (Karim Leklou) is a graphic designer from Lyon, a little elsewhere, who launches into a not very friendly tirade towards the company’s new intern during a meeting. When he starts hitting him a few minutes later, it’s hardly surprising. But when Vincent is attacked again by one of his colleagues, everyone wonders, him first and foremost. Vincent must die by Stéphan Castang, in theaters on November 15, is a distressing journey in the footsteps of a man who does not understand why he inspires so much violence in his fellow citizens. In his quest for answers, he also meets Margaux (Vimala Pons), a waitress with whom he will gradually become friends.
Stéphan Castang’s effective direction allows us to quickly empathize with the character of Vincent who must face, with each attack, an unprecedented surge of violence. If the attacks are repeated, they mainly contribute to moving the story forward. Each of them, choreographed in a unique way, allows us to better understand the psychology of the character and to explain the sequence of decisions that Vincent takes to protect himself from an environment that has become lethal.
Seek to understand, but explain nothing
Karim Leklou brings to his character a candor that rhymes with astonishment. But it quickly gives way to an implacable survival instinct, which questions the limits of self-defense. The meeting with Margaux confirms this state of mind and appears as a bright spot in Vincent’s solitary journey. In fact, despite his many problems, the young man has not given up on finding his soul mate. Hope thus seems not to have left the apocalyptic and gray world, the photo ensures this, imagined by the screenwriter Mathieu Naert and put into images by Stéphan Castang.
The first feature film by the French actor and filmmaker is a conceptual zombie film which addresses the issue of violence in all its forms: from that to which an individual can be a victim in a company or in the street to collective violence, including those committed Women’s. Vincent must die is a genre film built around an ambient evil, violence, which is transmitted and spread like a bad virus. The metaphor is quite well found in a society where violence seems to have become unavoidable and spares no aspect of daily life.
The tour de force of Vincent must die is in its initial postulate: not to explain anything.
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The sheet
Gender : drama, fantasy
Director: Stéphan Castang
Distribution : Karim Leklou, Vimala Pons, François Chattot
Country : France, Belgium
Duration : 1h48
Exit : November 15, 2023
Distributer : Capricci
Synopsis : Dovernight, Vincent is attacked several times and for no reason by people who try to kill him. His existence as a man without history is turned upside down and, when the phenomenon worsens, he has no other choice but to flee and change his way of life.