Address: Alice Winocour
Translators: Virginie Efira, Benoît Magimel, Grégoire Colin, Maya Sansa, Amadou Mbow, Nastya Golubeva, Ema Zampa
Year: 2022
premiere 11 November 2022
★★★
The attacks in Paris, like those in Madrid or Barcelona, have now become a part of our collective memory, and fictions are beginning to emerge that try to reflect the wounds these acts of violence and fear have inflicted on us. society. Inside ‘One year, one night’Isaki Lacuesta reflected the trauma rooted in the experience of a survivor of the Bataclan massacre and now the French director. Alice Winocour does something similar to this ‘Paris Memories’albeit from a different visual (and emotional) perspective.
Her heroine is Mia (Virginia Efira) will see how the little microcosm of security that seemed to be his life completely collapses after he emerges unscathed (physically) from one of the attacks at a ‘pub’. From that moment on, his old identity will be shattered and we will plunge into a process of inner searching in which the mental reconstruction of facts will become essential, as well as the need to share the pain with other victims.
‘Memories of Paris’ may not be as compact or clever in its structure as ‘One year, one night’, but it has the virtue of making images in a transparent and deeply empathetic way, a disgusting experience. in a very sensitive and humane way, with restorative testimony.
Source: Informacion
