One year, one nightin competition at the 72nd edition of the Berlin International Film Festival, is the first feature film about the Bataclan attack on November 13, 2015. Heis signed by the Spanish director Isaki Lacuesta.
With our special correspondent in Berlin, Sophie Torlotin
One year, one night (“one year, one night”) delicately chronicles the journey of a couple of Bataclan survivors. Ramon and Cécile wander, haggard, in Paris, a survival blanket over their shoulders. They were in the pit of the performance hall, carefree attendees at the Eagles of Death Metal concert.
Isaki Lacuesta only shows the attack through the snatches of memories that assail them: gunshots, the jostling during the flight, the anguish of waiting in a dressing room: “ Every time I close my eyes, I see his face again. They arrested someone? »
The Spanish director, who here adapts the book of testimony by Ramon Gonzales, focuses on the return to life of two young people traumatized by what they have experienced. Ramon, a rock-loving computer engineer, has multiple anxiety attacks and needs to externalize his traumas. His companion Cécile, on the contrary, puts on a good face, going so far as to hide from those close to her that she was at the Bataclan.
One year, one night shows, without voyeurism or pathos, the intimate explosion of such trauma, the couple and love put to the test. But also the resilience and the life force of two young incomes from hell.
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