CRITIQUE – Co-writer, director and actor, Daniel Auteuil offers a tense and effective courtroom film which explores the notion of intimate conviction.
Sometimes, the truth hangs by a thread. You have to know how to grab it and not let go. This is the whole job of a lawyer played by Daniel Auteuil in The Threada dark and sunny psychological thriller at the same time. Based on a true story, told by the lawyer Jean-Yves Moyart in a book of memoirs entitled In the ambush, chronicles of ordinary justicethis sixth film directed by Auteuil (after his Pagnolesque trilogy), tackles a cinematographic genre in itself, the trial film.
Of Twelve Angry Menby Sidney Lumet, at Anatomy of a fall by Justine Triet, passing by The False Guiltyby Hitchcock, or the recent ones Saint Omer by Alice Diop, or even The Goldman Trialby Cédric Kahn, courtroom cinema has the advantage of having its own codes as well as a very marked dramaturgy.
Auteuil complies with the exercise without superfluous flourishes. With sobriety and finesse. The plot of the Fil takes place when a squad of gendarmes comes to arrest a…
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