We take the same and start again. After Amin by Philippe Faucon in 2016, Rodeo by Lola Quivoron and The Committed by Émilie Frèche in 2022, The Rascals by Jimmy Laporal Trésor, My France To Me by Benoît Cohen and Before the flames go out by Mehdi Fikri last year, the fascist sphere once again targeted a French film, that of Julie Navarro, A few days no morein theaters since April 3 where Benjamin Biolay agrees to host an Afghan migrant to curry favor with Camille Cottin, a former lawyer converted into head of the Solidarité Exilés association, whom he covets.
It is obviously not the quality of the film that is being discussed in the hateful and racist comments from far-right Internet users — who organized raids to watch the film without having seen it under the trailer published on Facebook and on the film’s website — but its subject, that of welcoming migrants. “Something pro-migrant. Disgusting”, “The French first”, “We first help our French and the migrants we leave them on their floating boat”we can read in the messages aimed at the film.
The bashing then continued on AlloCiné which had to close the comments section of the film’s page where hundreds of bad ratings (0/5 – 0.5/5 – 1/5) poured in before and on the day of its release. exit to dissuade spectators. At the time of writing, three weeks after the release of A few days no more, the comments are open again and the spectator rating is currently 2.9/5 (3.5 for the press). If negative comments are visible, they relate to the quality of the film and not its message.
In a press release, the SRF (Society of Film Directors) indicated that BAC Films, the film’s distributor, deleted 971 hate messages and denounced “the same process, the same messages, the same blind, anonymous and self-conscious hatred” [qui] “hinders the distribution of films” [et] “creative freedom”. She also calls on AlloCiné to do “everything in its power not to leave works and their authors helpless in the face of such easily identifiable raids”emphasizing that currently “the safeguards are insufficient”. On Instagram, the director of the film denounces the absence of moderators on the site. “No possibility of filtering, or even responding to these people with hateful comments who had not seen the film since it had not yet been released! So… To muzzle the extreme right, we muzzle everyone”protests Julie Navarro.
However, an investigation of Telerama dating from November 2023 indicates that the site is giving itself the means to deal with these raids by subcontracting to a specialized company the task of identifying all content that does not meet its charter. According to the magazine, “a team is at work from 8 a.m. to midnight seven days a week, with the mission of deleting comments (and the note that goes with it) that are hateful, off-topic, without argument or clearly betraying that the film has not been seen ”sifting through 15,000 to 25,000 reviews per month, with particular vigilance for a list of works classified at risk at the start of each month.
But as the site allows notes without any text, it is always possible for the same Internet user to multiply bad notes with several different accounts. To combat these repeated attacks from the fascist sphere, AlloCiné is currently working to implement new rules, such as not allowing ratings without comments or having to scan a movie ticket to give one, as is the case on Rotten Tomatoes , the American alter ego of AlloCiné, always indicates Telerama.
