November by Cédric Jimenez, it is a dive into the five days of investigation that followed the attacks of November 13, 2015, with the anti-terrorism police, a film as breathless as it is sober. Obviously we are seized, projected into the memory of this nightmarish evening, and like the police officers we discover on the screen, flabbergasted. Except that they don’t have time to have emotions.
Cédric Jimenez, fan of action cinema, reconstructs hour by hour the hard work of these men and women, first lost, disoriented, then who put themselves in battle order to find the last terrorists of the commando.
Sandra, Léa Seydoux, is a single mother, a translator by profession, who must both face the dependence of her father, a former philosophy teacher adored by her family and her students, but suffering from a neurodegenerative disease, and compose with the return of a former love, now a married man, whom she sees when she has time. It’s inspired by the filmmaker’s own life, whose father also suffered from the same ailments, and in the role of this well-read man who is gradually losing his mind, the great actor Pascal Greggory.