A few days after the Bataclan terrorist attack, a moving voice, imbued with sadness and dignity, was raised.
Cultural journalist Antoine Leiris has just lost his wife, Hélène Muyal-Leiris, aged 35 and mother of a 17-month-old baby boy.
She was at the Eagles of Death Metal concert.
Antoine Leiris then publishes an open letter on Facebook entitled
You will not have my hatred.
It has more than 220,000 shares,
Le Monde
publishes it in its entirety in its columns, the foreign media take it over.
The impact is global.
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You won't have my hatred
of Antoine Leiris soon to be adapted into a film
A year later Antoine Leiris will make this letter the subject of a book that Benjamin Guillard will stage for the Théâtre du Rond-Point, in 2017, with Raphaël Personnaz in the role of Antoine Leiris.
Today, Pierre Deladonchamps lends him his features for the big screen accompanied by Camélia Jordana who plays Hélène.
Shot by the German Kilian Riedhof, the eponymous film looks back on its history.
“Thank you for finding the words”
In a few images, the trailer sets the tone.
Striking, it reveals a happy couple, the loss of the loved one, the aftermath, the reconstruction excluding anger to ensure a happy and free life despite everything for the very young child deprived of his mother.
These first images also evoke the gratitude of those who, having also lost a loved one, found in the journalist's poignant message posted on Facebook, the expression of their own grief:
"Thank you for having found the words",
thanks a young stranger crossed in the subway.
In his letter published three days after the attacks, Antoine Leiris expressed his categorical refusal not to give in to hatred, anger or fear:
"I forbid myself"
, he declared on November 17, 2015 on the tray of C to you.
The film will be released in theaters this fall on November 2.