Broadcast tonight on France 2, Erick Zonca’s thriller, Black River, worn by Vincent Cassel, Romain Duris, Sandrine Kiberlain and Elodie Bouchez, had a complicated start to filming. Explanations.
black riverpolar shadow d’Erick Zonca released in 2018 and adapted from the book “A worrying disappearance” by the Israeli Dror Mishani, is broadcast this evening on France 2. The story: Solange Arnault (Sandrine Kiberlain), worried regarding the disappearance of her son Dany, confided her fears to Commander François Visconti (Vincent Cassel). The officer, a police commander worn out by his profession, is put on the case. The man goes in search of the teenager when he is reluctant to take care of his own son, Denis, sixteen years old, who seems to be involved in drug trafficking. Visconti is contacted by Yann Bellaile (Romain Duris), a teacher who gave private lessons to Dany. The interest that the teacher shows for his investigation begins to arouse Visconti’s suspicions… For his fourth film, Erick Zonca signs a murky and tense thriller, uneven, sometimes dazzling, dominated by the intense confrontation between two great popular actors: Vincent Cassel and Romain Duris.
Change of actor during filming
However, it is not Tina Kunakey’s husband that the director had chosen to embody the character of the investigator. The shooting of the film had indeed started with Gérard Depardieu invested in this role. But the thesis widespread everywhere is that the actor with a fifty-year career was hospitalized three days following filming began. But the words of journalist Patrick Cohen, on the set of C à vous in 2018, tell another version. According to the latter, the filming had gone badly and Gérard Depardieu would have left him “following six days”before adding that “It (had) never happened to him in his entire career.“Erick Zonca therefore had to find a replacement for the deposit. “Vincent Cassel agreed to play the main character, Commander Visconti. He came directly from Brazil, he jumped into the story with both feet and suddenly put on the clothes of this commander without any prior preparation”said the director of The dream life of angels.
