Valeria Bruni Tedeschi and Marina Foïs in a scene from the film “Paris, all in one night” (photo by Carole Bethuel).
P.ARIGI, ALL IN ONE NIGHT
Kind: Socio-psychological drama
Directed by Catherine Corsini. With Valeria Bruni Tedeschi, Marina Foïs, Pio MarmaÏ, AÏssitou Diallo Sagna, Jean-Louis Coulloc’h, Camille Sansterre
Raffaella and Julie are a ten-year couple on the verge of a breakup that the former does not want to accept.
That’s why he chases her down the street when he wants to leave, but falls and breaks an arm (la fracture of the original titlenot the foolish one she has in Italy) ending up in the emergency room, where the case will make her wait next to Yann, a jaune vest wounded by a police grenade.
Pio MarmaÏ in a scene from the film “Paris, all in one night” (photo by Carole Bethuel).
While the waiting room is filled with new cases and everyone demands attention and care, the camera makes its way through the many possible stories that those patients are hiding, including medical personnel.
To hold the attention and the tension is the skill of staging (and editing) that mixes private glimpses and political outbursts, class conflicts (Raf and Yann will inevitably end up declaring themselves on opposite positions) and gestures of solidarity.
And if Bruni Tedeschi knows how to make unforgettable that mixture of anger and madness, aggression and weakness that characterizes her RAF, the attention is gradually conquered by the humanity of the nurses who know how to direct the film towards a reading of social limits. of the national health service, in a non-Manichean and undoubtedly engaging way.
For those who want to know the many faces of France.
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