Released in cinemas on September 7, 2022, Revoir Paris looks back on the journey of resilience of victims of attacks inspired by those of November 13, 2015, played by Virginie Efira and Benoît Magimel. Reviews of critics.
[Mis à jour le 7 septembre 2022 à 10h58] How do you continue to live when you have survived the worst? Revoir Paris, released in cinemas on September 7, 2022, is inspired by the journey of several survivors of the attacks of November 13, 2015, including two played by Virginie Efira and Benoît Magimel. The director, Alice Winocour, was inspired for this fictional story by the memories she had of the night of November 13 and the story of her brother, present at the Bataclan, of that night and the months that followed. However, she reminds franceinfo, “there is something unrepresentable in an attack. The objective was to shift things into fiction.” And to focus its plot not on the attack in question, but on the journey of resilience of its characters.
Has the difficult challenge of Revoir Paris been won? Yes, according to most critics, who salute a film “which avoids sensationalism” (Télé-Loisirs), “powerful” (franceinfo), “moving” (Le Parisien) and “both simple and profound” ( The Inrocks). The performance of the duo of main actors, Virginie Efira in the lead, is one of the main strengths of the feature film: “Virginie Efira imposes her great accuracy in this character of a woman determined to move forward without forgetting”, notes the Journal du Dimanche , when Télé-Loisirs finds that she “bursts the screen in the skin of a disoriented survivor.”
Synopsis – Mia manages to escape unscathed from an attack in a Parisian brasserie but finds herself living with short and intense flashbacks. Three months after the tragedy, she decides to carry out the investigation in order to find her memories and try to resume the course of a somewhat normal life. It begins with the scene of the tragedy, and gradually seeks to gather clues about the tragic events of that evening: find the people present at that time, put the pieces of the puzzle back in place in order to succeed in rebuilding themselves. and put an end to this psychological state to allow him to move forward in his life…
