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Thomas Kruithof and Jean-Baptiste Delafon: "The film tells a story that is not publicized"

2022-01-25T14:45:29.535Z


The director and his co-screenwriter look back on the genesis of the film Les Promesses, a feature film behind the scenes of local politics.


After

La Mécanique de l'ombre

, a paranoid thriller starring François Cluzet, Thomas Kruithof stages behind-the-scenes politics.

Alongside his co-screenwriter, Jean-Baptiste Delafon, co-creator of the

Baron noir

series

, with Kad Merad as PS deputy-mayor, he looks back on the genesis of

Promesses

.

LE FIGARO.

- What was the impetus for the

Promises

?

Thomas KRUITHOF.

-

I wanted to make a film about courage in politics.

I met Jean-Baptiste, who had already worked on a scenario and surveyed suburban mayors.

Degraded condominiums, unsanitary housing, slum landlords, all this social fabric was already there.

We didn't want to make a film about the conquest of power but to show the tortuous and chaotic exercise of local politics.

Read also

Our review of The Promises: last campaign

Jean-Baptiste DELAFON.

-

To imagine Clémence, we did not have a particular model, even if we evoke his profession of doctor before being mayor, as was Claude Dilain, the former mayor of Clichy-sous-Bois, great…

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Source: lefigaro

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