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Minot from the northern districts of Marseille, this ex-model turned successful director plunges with his film “November” into the attacks of 2015 and the stress of a crisis unit.
Cédric Jimenez is a big annoying kid. We knock him out, and bing, he gets up, with the insistence of a video game hero. Glorious glossers of the big screen strangle his cinema, he digests without resentment, or obvious resentment. “It’s up to me to make them change their minds. Afterwards, I find it a shame when there is a systematism not to like”, concedes the person concerned, rebellious curls and Mediterranean gaze. Vampirized by the far right, his film North ferry, more than 2.2 million spectators on the clock, has been the subject of surreal polemics. From there to sticking to the director of guilty acquaintances, there is a crab approach that we are careful not to adopt. Growing up in the northern districts, the Marseillais wanted “show why, in this bubbling ecosystem, police officers slip”. “That should be possible, right?“, he lets go, revealing to us in a broad smile the gap of his teeth. November, his new feature, shows the women and men of the Anti-Terrorist Sub-Directorate (Sdat) during the five days following the November 13 attacks. A crisis cell that has only one mission: to find the sowers of death, these insane censors of the terraces, and prevent them from striking again. We will have understood, the kif of this lover of Henri Verneuil and Brian De Palma, who quotes the film …