In See Paris again, Alice Winocour is freely inspired by the attacks of November 13, 2015 to tell the difficult reconstruction of the victims whose memory fails. Mia, Virginie Efira, is by chance in a restaurant where terrorists are wreaking havoc. Less affected than others, it recovers in the countryside.
When she returns to Paris, she wanders, absent from her own life, from her couple, she returns to the scene of the tragedy and meets other victims there. A teenager who has lost her parents, and a man, Benoît Magimel, who is injured in the legs but strong in survival humor. Mia has forgotten almost everything, she picks up the pieces of her memory which resurfaces, slowly, and absolutely wants to know who held her hand when the terrorists were sowing death.
Alice Winocour chooses tenderness, delicacy, to evoke this sensitive subject, and it is undoubtedly the right approach. Dented and lost characters, one who wants to know, to remember, to pick up the pieces at all costs, and the other that the drama has made lighter and more amateurish, and this duo works very well, thanks to the two amazing actors. We also recognize the director for filming a city as groggy, frozen, injured, and finally having a social perspective on the fate of workers, declared or not, in the kitchens of the capital.
In this first film which seduced Cannes in the spring, we are glued to the main character, Julie, who rushes on the stretchers and vociferates, breaking away from everything and with everyone, but who comes to life again and lights up, literally, when she steals motorcycles and indulges in cross bitumenwhich consists of making the most elaborate artistic figures on linesisolated and abandoned sections of highway, and in parallel, we follow both a love story and another, more of an urban thriller, a punchy, feminist film, a story of emancipation.
Lola Quivoron transmits her passion for cross bitumen which she also practices, like her main actress, Julie Ledru, to whom we wish the best for the future, it would be deserved. The mixture of genres: western, social, fantastic, and the influences of the director, also works rather well, there is in this first film a real desire for cinema.