Director: Jeanne Harry
Cast: Adele Exarchopoulos, Leila Bekhti, Elodie Bouchez
Premiere: 8/9/23
Punctuation: ★★★
Shortly after the movie begins, Denis Podalydès’ character assures that restorative justice is a combat sport. From this moment on, the story shows: two parallel stories about the complexity of this restorative justice It is an approach that pits victims against those who directly or indirectly harm them, for positive purposes.
One focuses on the interviews of three victims of violent robberies with the three inmates who perpetrated this violence; not necessarily about them. The other, more complex story concerns the reunion of a young woman (a perfect Adèle Exarchopoulos) and her half-brother, who had sexually abused her for years. Of course a movie about dialog based dialogueIt is fixed in the conversations between victims and criminals in the first case, and in the bodily expression of doubt, fear and uncertainty, not verbally in the second case.
We can say that one part is more thesis, the first conflict between the attacked and the attackers is a tense anger that gradually spreads from meeting to meeting, and the second part is more practical in terms of gesture and economy of suspicion. . The story of the young woman and her half-brother is well resolved. The film advocates restorative justice, but also makes clear the difficulties of the painful process.