Per the cycle Voila le cinéma, Tonight at 9.20 pm on the first TV on Rai 3 it airs The heir, great thriller French directed by Xavier Legrand. The story revolves around a young designer that, on the day of the parade destined to launch it in high fashion, receives the news that the father died. Returned to Canada, his homeland, He will discover more than rough truths about his family.
The heir: The plot of the film Tonight 17th July on Rai 3
Ellias Barnès (Marc-André Grontin) is a 30-year-old acclaimed Canadian designer who has just reached the culmination of his career as artistic director of a famous fashion house in Paris. Just as his success now seems consolidated, A sudden called by Quebec forces him to return to Montréal for his father’s funeralwith whom he had no longer had relationships for some time. Back in his hometown, Ellias is in face not only the pain for mourning, but also a shocking revelation.
While he starts to suffer from chest pains, and to suspect he has heart problems just like his father, he discovers he had inherited much more than a simple predisposition to heart disease. A chilling secret hidden for years in fact he will change his life forever forevermarking his destiny in a way he would never have imagined.
A psychological thriller on male violence
Second film directed by Xavier Legrandwinner in 2017 of Silver lion in Venice with Foster care, The heir ISPIRA freely to the novel The ascendant of the writer Alexandre Postel, released in 2015. Presented in the world at the San Sebastián Festival in 2023, The film is a family drama on the weight and legacy of Patriarchate: it is full of thriller and horror elements and well -orchestrated twists and turns that keep the tension constant.
Marc-André Grontin in a scene of the film “The heir”. (Theodora Film)
At the center of the plot, ithe Father-Figlio relationshipyet another variation on the theme of Family as a casket of terrible secrets and unconfessable. Cnarratively obstructed with great balance and intelligence, The heir stages a tale tense in a way as essential as it is effective. Influenced by Shakespeare but also by the cinema of Alfred Hitchcock, the director enters the darkest parts of the human soul, wondering if evil can really inherit from father to son. Icing on the cake, The interpretation of Marc-André Grondin, Canadian actor It would deserve more consideration by international cinema.
The talented Marc-André Grondin leads the cast to lead the cast
Canadian actor born in 1984, Marc-André Grondin debuts at just three years Thanks to an advertising spot and a few years later he appears to the television series Les Intrépides And Sous a ciel variable.
In 2005 he obtained his first leading role in the cinema in CrazyJean-Marc Vallée’s film (Awarded at the Venice Festival) where he interprets A homosexual young man from the 70s which must face the discovery of its orientation in a family atmosphere marked by Catholicism And from traditional values.
Later, Marc-André recites in Canadian films such as La Belle Bête while in France, after his participation in the show Les Cerfs-Volatsinterprets Raphaël Duval in the film Premier Jour du Reste de Ta Vie directed by Rémi Bezançon. Thanks to this role gets the César prize for the best male promise. Married to the actress Sarah-Jeanne Labrosse, she has two children born in 2022 and 2023.
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