With Le Fil, Daniel Auteuil creates a captivating trial film with thriller overtones. The film is expected in theaters on September 11, 2024. Discover our review and the trailer.
Daniel Auteuil is back in court. For several years now, the actor and director has been moving from one side of the courtroom to the other, sometimes as a civil party (In the name of my daughter, on the Dieter Krombach affair), accused (The Adversaryin the guise of Jean-Claude Romand), lawyer (The Brio) and sometimes a bit of both at the same time (A silence). In his new movie, Thread, presented at the last Cannes Film Festival and expected in theaters on September 11, 2024, it once again wears the black dress with a white bib.
After his various adaptations of Marcel Pagnol (The Puisatier’s Daughter, Marius, Fanny) and that of the play Behind the scenes by Florian Zeller (In love with my wife), Auteuil this time signs the adaptation of a collection of stories, On the ambush: chronicles of ordinary criminal justice, written by the criminal lawyer of the Lille bar Jean-Yves Moyart alias Master Môwho became famous on the Internet with his blog ‘Little judicial chronicle, ordinary and subjective’.
Auteuil embodies Master MonierA criminal lawyer whose last trial at the assizes, the Portal affair, dates back 15 years. He then succeeded in acquitting a man who, once released from detention, had resumed killing elderly people. Enough to cut him off any desire to set foot again at the Draguignan foundations. However, this is what he will do by agreeing to defend Nicolas Milik (Grégory Gadebois), father of five children and poor fellow of his kind, accused of murdering his alcoholic wifefound with her throat slit.
True trial film with accents of thriller, Thread takes place in three stages, operating narrative back and forth between the Milik trial, three years after the events and scheduled to last three days; THE flashbacks which show (or not?) the stated truths, and thepost-trial. First of all court clerk in defense of Nicolas Milik, the cador of the bar will quickly set out to demonstrate the innocence – he is deeply convinced of it – of this nice, naive, clumsy-looking person, undeniably in good faith. While one clings to the box so as not to flinch, the other is ready to cross the red line to “save him”.
If trial films have made a comeback (Anatomy of a Fallthe Dog Trial, the Goldman Trial, the Red Chambers), the new Auteuil film has this in addition to placing the spectator in the shoes of one of the trial jurors. Also, when Auteuil-actor asks them for their intimate conviction, it is in reality to the spectators that Auteuil-director is addressing. And it is true that the trial is filmed throughout, step by step, providing the keys to making a built review.
Very well writtenThe movie is captivating in the manner of a whodunit very rhythmic – or rather a… did-he-do-it. As to flashbacksthey ask the following question: certainly illustrative, are they also representative of reality, constitutive of truth ? Thread succeeds in calling into question numerous convictions, starting with the very interest of a film which sows doubt about the guilt of a husband in the murder of his wife, at a time when feminicides are finally starting to have a name.
But the (double) final twistof which we will reveal nothing to you so as not to spoil your amazement, rewrites the work and thereby the initial ambition of Daniel Auteuil : Thread is a real advocacy for victims of violencewhatever they may be.
The trailer for Thread by Daniel Auteuil:
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