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In “I will always see your faces”, her latest film, Jeanne Herry evokes a mediation procedure still little known in France, tested since 2014.
Par Nicolas Bastuck
“I will always see your faces” features several dialogues between offenders and victims. Sometimes repairing exchanges, on one side or the other.Published on
Reading time: 11 mins
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Ua dreary, soulless activity room, lit by dim neon lights and derisively decorated, as there are in all prisons. Six chairs arranged in a circle like a group of Alcoholics Anonymous; men and women speak in turn, passing around a “talking stick” to avoid interrupting each other. Three detainees, sentenced for burglary, robbery with violence or armed robbery, face three victims of similar offences, the perpetrators of which are imprisoned elsewhere, released or on the run.
There is Nawelle (Leïla Bekhti), a former supermarket cashier, at whose temple a handgun was pointed, and who never recovered from those “ten minutes” that ruined her life. Grégoire (Gilles Lellouche), a coachbuilder…