“Athena”: Dali Benssalah succeeds in his post-James Bond

"The first time I saw

, it was a shock," says Dali Benssalah with a shy smile.

We are always embarrassed to see ourselves in the image, so to see my head huge like that… ”With his profile of a Greek god and his build of an athlete, the 30-year-old actor is one of the heroes of the new film by Romain Gavras.

He plays Abdel, the second of the four brothers in this tragedy, the soldier returned from Mali who tries to bring peace while the young people of the city have declared war on the police after the death of a child.

And in this feature film with impressive crowd scenes, his magnetic gaze takes the viewer on a feverish sequence shot.

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