Cannes Review: Alice Winocour Drama Film ‘Paris Memories’
deadline.comThis year has produced several films if terrorist attacks in France. One Year and One Night by Isaki Lacuesta (which premiered in Berlin this year) and November by Cedric Jimenez which is being shown out of competition at Cannes, and Alice Winocour’s deeply personal Paris Memories (Revoir Paris) which was inspired by Winocour’s own brother who was in the midst of the November 2015 attacks at Bataclan.
The film follows a woman’s journey to recovery after surviving a mass shooting. Mia (Virginie Efira) walks through Paris aimlessly trying to put the pieces of her life after the incident.
She’s looking for someone, anyone that was there that day who she can connect with and help recall her dissociated memories of that day.
Her mind is fractured and can’t seem to move on from post-traumatic stress. Before the incident, she worked as a translator.
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