“We are quick to categorize the victims and then forget them, all that comes next, the complexity of continuing to live with this trauma,” says the French actress Noemie Merlant. Known for Portrait of a Woman on Fire, she is one of the protagonists of the film Un año, una noche, in which the Girona filmmaker Isaki Lacuesta tackles the terrorist attack in the Bataclan room in Paris. After its premiere at the Berlinale, it will hit theaters on October 21st.
“At first I was afraid to accept this project,” says the performer. “You don’t know how legitimate it is. with the director and Ramón González, survivor of the attack and author of the book on which the film is based, which investigates not so much the event itself as the imprint left by the victims and the different ways of dealing with trauma.
“There are people who need to talk and others who prefer not to, but it’s important to have the possibility of a dialogue about what happened,” said the actress, one of the most sought after names on the French scene. currently. It now presents Paris, the 13th arrondissement of Jacques Audiard, a film that celebrates romantic love today and is awaiting TD release, Todd Field, starring Cate Blanchett.