A feature film that promises to provoke a reaction. March 27, 2024 will be released in theaters No wavesthe new film by Teddy Lussi-Modeste with François Civil
, Shaïn Boumedine, or even Mallory Wanecque, inspired by the director’s own experience as a teacher. In this film, François Civil plays Julien, a French teacher very popular with his students.
However, he is accused of harassment by one of them. The older brother of the allegedly harassed teenager will then threaten the professor who will try to find comfort among his colleagues… without success. The teaching staff does not in fact wish “not make waves” and expresses his desire to avoid any scandal.
The roles played by François Civil provoke reactions
Although the film has not yet been released, it has already caused reactions on the Web. Indeed, many Internet users criticize the positions taken by François Civil in the roles he has played in recent years. Some even say that he would put forward the ideas of the extreme right depending on his roles. “What does François Civil do apart from acting in films that reinforce the fantasies of the extreme right??”, “François Civil if he doesn’t make films that benefit incels or the extreme right, he dies?”, “François Civil always makes weird (right-wing) films whereas when he was doing the suburban guy at the start of his career he was as hot as coal”criticized a number of X users.
As a reminder, in October 2020, the film by Cédric Gimenez, North Bac, sparked many reactions. In this one, François Civil played the role of a Marseille Bac police officer. A feature film which describes the violent daily life of the BAC Nord police officers in Marseille and has been analyzed as putting forward the theses of the French extreme right.
Notably “on the very difficult management of neighborhoods that have become ‘lost territories of the Republic’ plagued by trafficking”, recalled our RTL colleagues. Between North Bac, An area to defendand soon No wavesInternet users seem visibly convinced of the actor’s political ideas.
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