Revoir Paris (2023)
Revoir Paris
”Mia, a shooting survivor, returns to the bistro to remember the attack and forms bonds with fellow survivors.”
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Directed by acclaimed filmmaker Alice Winocour (Proxima), Revoir Paris is a powerful drama that tackles the French capital’s recent past with terrorist attacks. The plot follows Mia (the wonderful Virginie Efira, from Waiting for Bojangles), a woman that manages to survive one of such attacks. However, months later, she hasn’t managed to recover psychologically, so she decides to seek out other survivors to rebuild her memories of that day. It’s a sensitive portrayal –albeit a teary-eyed one– of grief and psychological trauma, that lets us see how our minds –and the people around us– struggle with situations such as this one.
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A gunman opens fire on a Parisian bistro. Mia survives with no memory of the attack. Determined to remember what happened that night, Mia finds herself repeatedly returning to the bistro where the shooting happened. In the process she forms bonds with fellow survivors, reliving the worst night of her life through the eyes of the only other people who could possibly understand.
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