Matt Damon gives the reply to Camille Cottin in Stillwater, film by Tom McCarthy which takes place in Marseille. The intrigue can resonate with the Historia of Amanda Knox.
Matt Damon set down his suitcases in Marseille, during a film by Tom McCarthy (Spotlight). Stillwater is a thriller in which the American actor gives the reply to Camille Cottin and Abigail Breslin. The film, released on September 22, 2021, retraces the wandering of an American oil driller in the Marseille city in order to prove the innocence of his daughter, accused of murder on French soil.
The team of Stillwater Ensures: If the film script looks like the true story of Amanda Knox, the feature film is a very free adaptation of this affair. At that time, the 20 -year -old American student, was accused of having killed her roommate, Meredith Kercher, found dead in the bathroom of the apartment they shared in Pérouse, Italy. Amanda Knox continues to proclaim her innocence, but she is still found guilty at first instance and sentenced to 25 years in prison. But four years later, in 2011, she was finally acquitted on appeal, due to lack of sufficient evidence.
The scenarios were freely inspired, while retaining many differences with what Amanda Knox experienced. This American journalist was sentenced in 2007, in Italy, for almost four years for the murder of Meredth Kercher, with whom she shared an apartment. In 2015, it was definitively acquitted by the Supreme Court of Italian Cassation, recognizing “important failures” in the investigation. Subsequently, it was a burglar, Rudy Guede, who was arrested and found guilty of the murder. He was sentenced to 16 years in prison, and released definitively on November 23, 2021. He hinted at that time that Amanda Knox was involved in the murder.
Tom McCarthy did not hide having inspired the Amanda Knox affair to write the script for Stillwater. The main interested party did not appreciate the film. To which the director responded in interview to Variety “having a lot of empathy for Amanda and what she experienced […] But, from what she says of it, she did not see the film. Stillwater is a fiction, and does not tell his personal experience “, in particular the global intrigue and the characters are” invented “.
Synopsis – Bill Baker, an oil driller from Oklahoma goes to Marseille to find her imprisoned daughter, accused of a murder she swears that she did not commit.
This title refers to the city of Oklahoma, where Bill comes from, the protagonist embodied by Matt Damon. In English, Still Water can result in calm water (or more practically by flat water). An ironic metaphor for the adaptation of Bill and his daughter in Marseille? It is up to the public to discover it in front of the film.
Opinions are shared on Stillwaterbetween those who are seduced by “a thriller Effective “(Télérama) and those who qualify the feature film as” too long and too verbose “(first). If the film is not free from faults (the hesitation between genres and a story too long according to Paris-Match), many media greet” an American thriller that is skilled with clichés “(Le Monde),” a intrigue overflowing with humanity “(JDD) Marseille “(Le Parisien) and” An unexpected drama on uprooting “(here).
Matt Damon’s performance seems to be unanimous, even among the disappointed. LCI greets the performance of the American actor “in redneck plagued by the regrets” who “illuminates” Stillwater. Same point of view for Télé-Loisirs, which believes that “Matt Damon delivers a solid performance in this successful film, mixing judicial thriller and intimate drama.” Camille Cottin is not outdone according to Public, who believes that the actress “delivers a fair, sober and impeccable performance, as always”.