French filmmaker Dominik Moll returned to the Cannes Cannes competition on Thursday with the police drama File 137Who received a very enthusiastic ovation of eight minutes – where the public was actually being held.
The applause could have continued, but people were out of the theater just before the 12 -minute brand so that it could be authorized for the next screening.
The film features Léa Drucker as a police officer working for internal affairs who is assigned to a case involving a young man seriously injured during a tense and chaotic demonstration in Paris. Although she finds no evidence of illegitimate police violence, the case takes a personal turn when she discovers that the victim is from her hometown.
In his review for the deadline, Stephanie Bunbury described the film “police procedure for serious purposes and a sober delivery”. Moll and the co-series Gilles Marchand “involve their experience with the suspense and an insistent narrative rhythm so that, even if it is not really fun, it is captivating.” Drucker, she wrote, “gives vitality to each movement and counter-movement.”
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Moll’s Breakout Film, 2000’s Harry, he’s there to helpprojected in competition here before his thriller Lemming opened the festival in 2005. It was recently on the Croisette with 2022 The night of the 12th In the first section.
File 137 Generated the headlines earlier in the day when it was revealed that the delegate of the Cannes Film Festival, General Thierry Frémaux, had prohibited one of the film’s actors, Théo Navarro-Mussy, to walk on the red carpet after he emerged that he was accused of sexual assault by three women.
The complaint was rejected by the courts in April, but the complainants said they were planning to appeal as civil parties.
