French actor and director Daniel Auteuil makes a remarkable return behind the camera and stages himself as a lawyer who tries to discover whether his client is guilty or not in The thread.
Freely adapted by Daniel Auteuil and Steven Mitz of Master Mô book de Jean-Yves Moyart, The thread The lawyer Jean Monier follows, played by Daniel Auteuil, who has as a client Nicolas Milik (Grégory Gadebois). The man is accused of having brutally killed his alcoholic wife. But Jean Monier is convinced that Milik is innocent and, in order to prepare the trial and the interrogations of the witnesses, he investigates.
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Daniel Auteuil, the director, uses all the means at his disposal to transcribe the doubt that lives in his character. The actor’s face, filmed in close -up (especially during audiences) gradually expresses the uncertainty that wins him and the suspicions that end up gnawing at him.
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-It is in the scenes of the trial – and those of the back returns which are associated with it – that Daniel Auteuil, the director, proves how he has evolved since Lovers of my wife In 2018. His compositions are more guaranteed, his plans more neat and more precise, all helping to create a tense and captivating atmosphere.
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The thread is also a film of actors, it is impossible to tell a story like this without ensuring talented actors. Whether it is the filmmaker, perfect as a lawyer (we will obviously make the parallel with his freezing role in A silence), from Grégory Gadebois to accused or Aurore Auteuil, the actor’s daughter, in sister of the victim, the whole team is invested in his roles, which makes the suspense of The thread all the more breathless.
Note: 3.5 out of 5
The thread Questions moviegoers from April 18.
