2023-04-27 10:39:20
In an attempt to move forward or to survive, delinquents in prison and victims of aggression dialogue and try to to understand each other. By the director of Pupila film that takes you by the hand and comforts you.
It’s the very type of film that shouldn’t work. A dozen characters seated around a table, who talk, rehash their misfortunes for nearly two hours. And yet I will always see your faces is a resounding success. At the heart of the film, restorative justice. Huh, what, kezako? Since 2014, in France, restorative justice has offered victims of aggression and offenders behind bars the opportunity to dialogue in secure facilities, supervised by professionals and volunteers. In the film, Grégoire, Nawelle and Sabine, victims of homejacking, robbery or snatching, will listen, discuss and try to understand three small bosses or big losers, in the amniotic fluid of a prison room. For her part, Chloé, victim of a series of rapes over several years, also embarks on the path of restorative justice, before being confronted with her brother. A path made of doubts and tears, anger and hope, with perhaps at the end, a promise of resilience, even of repair…
WORDS ABOUT ILLS
In the script and behind the camera, the ultra-talented Jeanne Herry, 44, daughter of Miou Miou and Julien Clerc, already author of a luminous and unforgettable film, Pupil, where it was a question of childbirth under X and adoption. His narration follows two axes that will never intersect: the sessions in prison between three victims and three aggressors, and the journey of the victim of incest. It’s superbly knitted, the characters are all admirably written, and like with Renoir, everyone has their reasons. Jeanne Herry puts words on evils. Both exchange their feelings, expose badly sutured scars, sometimes empathy can take precedence over the fear of the other, and the shattered beings will perhaps be able to return one day to the side of the living.
As the director says, ” the objective of restorative justice is the release of emotions through speech “. She proposes a release of emotions through images and invents restorative cinematography. Because I will always see your faces is beautiful, great cinema. With Nicolas Loir, op’ chef from , already responsible for the image of Novembershe films classic, shot/reverse shot, no tic, no knock, and captures a look, a body that curls up, a smile that blooms, and above all silence… She sublimates her actors, whom she frames tightly , all absolutely exceptional: Leila Bekhti, Dali Benssalah, Suliane Brahim, Jean-Pierre Darroussin, Gilles Lellouche, Miou Miou, Fred Testot or Adèle Exarchouplos, who irradiates the film.
I will always see your faces is a luminous odyssey towards happiness, a film that takes you by the hand, makes you cry, comforts you and whispers blue words, sweet words, words of sharing and resilience. And in the end, there is a miracle. I will always see your faces is a film that repairs.
I WILL ALWAYS SEE YOUR FACES
JEANNE HERRY
THEATER RELEASE ON MARCH 29
By Marc Godin
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