“There is nothing sadder than a life without chance
,” wrote Balzac.
We are not sure that Mia, the heroine of
Revoir Paris
, by Alice Winocour, can appreciate this Balzacian maxim.
Embodied with sobriety and accuracy by Virginie Efira, Mia is a Russian translator.
She is having dinner with her husband who was rushed to the hospital.
She is surprised on her motorbike by a violent storm and takes refuge in the café L'Étoile d'or.
In this Parisian bistro, Benoît Magimel spotted her when he was bored with his team, who wished him a happy birthday.
As she prepares to leave, a man armed with a submachine gun enters the room.
We know the rest.
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Alice Winocour used her own experience to feed her film.
His brother was at the Bataclan on November 13
Presented at La Quinzaine des Réalisateurs,
Revoir Paris
approaches the afterlife with tact and emotion.
Seven years after the Paris attacks of November 2015, this moving film, built like a kaleidoscope of suffering, spends its time looking for light at the end of a long tunnel of tears.
What Alice Winocour makes perfectly feel…
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