Our review of One year, one night by Isaki Lacuesta: the Bataclan on Spanish time

Un an, une nuit

is being released in France more than twelve months after its presentation in competition at the Berlinale 2022. In the meantime, the attacks of November 13, 2015 have inspired other feature films.

by Cédric Jimenez, on the hunt for the Islamist commando,

by Kilian Riedhof, taken from the story by Antoine Leiris, and

by Alice Winocour, with Virginie Efira as a survivor of a shooting in a restaurant, demonstrated the cathartic virtues of cinema.

also recounts the trauma of the victims.

It's a little late, but not too late.

Fiction has not exhausted the event and its consequences.

Rehash the attack

The Spaniard Isaki Lacuesta transposes the autobiographical book of his compatriot Ramon Gonzalez,

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Ramon (Nahuel Perez Biscayart) and Céline (Noémie Merlant), a young Parisian couple, survived the Bataclan attack.

They didn't see the same thing.

He was in the pit, she hid in a lodge.

Read alsoOne year, one night, when the cinema sides with the victims of the Bataclan

Each in their own way...

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