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Everything is going for Daniel Auteuil of the discovery of a blog kept by the now deceased lawyer Jean-Yves Moyart. A diary in which he recounted his solitude, his relationship with the accused whom he often had to defend alone against everyone. The Thread is an adaptation of one of these stories. That of Nicolas Milik, a father accused of the murder of his wife, whose certainty of his innocence brings Jean Monier out of his “retirement”, he who, after wrongly exonerating a repeat murderer, had decided to no longer accept criminal cases.
The Thread is obviously experienced as a suspense on the guilt or otherwise of Milik, through a trial which constitutes its backbone and cleverly orchestrated twists and turns, each expressing a facet of justice told as the face to face between contradictory truths, too subjectively human, while we expect objectivity and THE truth from it.
Forgotten The Well-Digger's Daughter, Marius, Fanny… Auteuil signs here his first real film as a director. The first where we feel in each shot a desire for cinema, a desire to get away from the pure trial film with all these scenes outside the walls where Monier searches for himself and gets lost in a Camargue far from the postcard clichés. The first where the power of his direction of all crazy actors (Gregory Gadebois, Alice Belaidi… and even a beginner named Gaëtan Roussel!) is deployed to this point. His joy of acting with them joins that of filming them. Because in a complex and tortuous role, the actor Auteuil succeeds once again in amaze us. A complete artist!
Of Daniel Auteuil. With Daniel Auteuil, Gregory Gadebois, Alice Belaïdi… Duration 1h55. Released on September 11, 2024