DOMINIK MOLL | FRANCE | 2025 | 115 MIN | FRENCH
In fall 2018, a populist movement swelled across France to denounce increasing prices of common goods, stagnant minimum wages, and a frighteningly familiar wealth gap. This storm of discontent culminated in protestors flooding the streets of Paris only to be met with riot gear, tear gas, and rubber bullets to the head. When one such bullet strikes a teen bystander and leaves him in critical condition, French internal affairs officer Stéphanie Bertrand (Léa Drucker) must wade through dissenting accounts and shaky cell phone footage for answers — because in co-writer/director Dominik Moll’s tightly wound, real-life-inspired thriller, no one is on Bertrand’s side. Fiercely performed by Drucker, Bertrand can’t shake the pleas for justice from the wounded teen’s mother, yet faces obstacles and threats of violence from her own peers when pursuing leads. Despite a world where body cams and iPhones have created Big Brother by willing participation, Moll’s nail-biting and rage-inducing Cannes Palme d’Or nominee asks: How can we expect to see justice when those administering it are blindly corrupt?
Cast: Léa Drucker, Yoann Blanc, Guslagie Malanda
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