Alice Winokur’s fourth feature film, inspired by the attacks of November 13, 2015, deals with post-attack traumatic memory.
The critically-acclaimed film during Directors’ Fortnight at the 2022 Cannes Film Festival; See Paris again released its trailer this week on the Pathé YouTube channel. Alice Winokur’s film, for which it is her fourth feature film as a director, features the Virginie Efira-Benoît Magimel tandem sharing the screen for the first time.
As he tries to shield himself from the rain and take shelter in a Parisian brasserie, Mia (Virginie Efira) is caught in the crossfire. Three months later, the young woman remembers only the parts of this attack that she survived. Unable to resume a normal routine, he then decides to embark on a guilt-inducing quest to find memories in hopes of finding happiness and peace. “Everything faded from my memory. What happened next?” he asks in the trailer’s intro. He meets Thomas (Benoit Magimel), who is present at the same place that evening when the terrorists arrive. He remembers the events very accurately. “I’m not sure remembering that can help you,” he then begins in a clip from the trailer.
Virginie Efira sings “Que je t’aime” at the opening ceremony of the Cannes Film Festival.
This film questions survivors’ post-assault traumatic memory. “I wanted to tell the story of someone who not only wanted to survive, but above all to live,” confided Alice Winokur on the evening of the film’s screening in Cannes. It was through his brother, who himself was present at the Bataclan during the November 13, 2015 attacks, that the director was able to meet with survivors who were working through post-traumatic shock.
The November 13 trial ended just a few weeks ago. The only survivor of the terrorists, Salah Abdeslam, was sentenced to indelible life imprisonment.
See Paris again will appear in theaters on September 7.
Source: Le Figaro
