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Under the guise of a Parisian comedy hides a great political film – and a formidable social thriller. Epic and exciting.
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Raphaëlle wants to believe that all is not over between her and Julie. She floods her partner with text messages, in love or in despair. She even chases her into the street, where she extorts the promise that “maybe, something could remain”. Then, feverish, she falls and breaks her elbow very badly. The Parisian bobo artist finds himself in the hospital, in an absolutely crowded emergency room. And for good reason: tonight is demo night, and the yellow vests are there on the screen which muted images of JT. A yellow vest, there is also one in the room, in a wheelchair because of his leg, badly damaged by a police shot at point blank range. Yann absolutely wants us to turn up the volume, because President Macron is going to speak, and he wants to know what he could say in his defense. Raphaëlle, exhausted by the pain and the waiting, asks that the TV be left silent, “for pity”. While the class struggle begins to rumble around the remote control, the medical profession, bloodless, parries the most in a hurry, and tries to come to the aid of the too many candidates for health – physical and mental.
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“We have set up a very free filming system, which respects real medical time, to favor real gestures, real looks.”
Catherine Corsini
Director
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“It all started with a personal experience”, tells us the director Catherine Corsini. “I really broke my elbow on December 1, 2018. I saw the hospital as a great symbolic place of mixtures, discussions, stress… a great mixing. To create authenticity, we posted a classified ad and cast real nurses. 300 people answered the call, I made discussion groups to find out who would be comfortable in the game. Then, we set up a system of very free shooting, which respects the real medical time, to privilege the real gestures, the real glances that I had been able to observe during the nights, in the sorting room. “
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From small personal issues to major social issues
And the least we can say is that it works. The director slips slowly but surely from a “satirical bohemian comedy” tone to a real immersion in the exhausting drama of this kind of night where everything changes. Through laughter, she opens a door on subjects that are very difficult to tackle head on. Extremely varied themes, which collide constantly to better challenge us, such as the violence of a breakup after 45 years or the place of the spouse “parent without real status” in a homosexual couple with a teenager … These personal issues are woven broad social issues: the absurd, even suicidal, pressure of a supposedly modern country on its hospital staff, the lack of dialogue between the majority of a population and its political “elite” …
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“Politics is that: get close enough to see people’s dreams.”
Catherine Corsini
Director
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“I wanted to show the enormous desire for dialogue, to exist in the eyes of decision-makers, to be seen, to be heard. Yann is not just a loudmouth. When he says he wants to go to the Elysee Palace to talk to the president “even if it means going through the sewers”, he is absolutely sincere. When we discuss, we see people’s dreams. Politics is this: get close enough to see people’s dreams. Take off his comfortable shoes and put on the other’s, for an hour, for a night. “
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Maze and chaotic hospital
As the arena for this tragicomedy with antique accents: the hospital. Maze and chaotic hospital, matrix hospital where everyone ends up failing – but where the impulses of life remain powerful. And as a pivotal moment: at night, when a certain madness unfolds, when everyone crosses their peers and finds themselves facing themselves between the metal bars of an anonymous bed.
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During his 98 minutes, “The fracture” takes us hostage. Drawn into the spiral, the spectator undergoes a salutary, refreshing, deep immersion in the point of view of the Other. Between despair and contempt, empathy and triumph, we travel on sight, and until the end of the night.
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