Young French Cinema 2024: First Case (2024)
Director: Victoria Musiedlak Run Time: 98 min. Rating: NR Release Year: 2024
Starring: Alexis Neises, Anders Danielsen Lie, Noée Abita
Country: France
Language: French
Young French Cinema 2024
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About the film:
Official Selection of the Locarno Film Festival
Nora, a 26-year-old lawyer fresh out of law school, has the impression that she doesn’t have any real life experience when she finds herself thrown into her first criminal law case. From her initial meeting with her client in police custody and throughout the investigation, Nora discovers the cruelty of the world that surrounds her private and professional lives. Quickly carried away by the frenzy of her new life, she starts making mistake after mistake, leading her to wonder about her life choices.
“An unsettling film showing the behind-the-scenes of an often dehumanizing justice system.”
— Muriel Del Don, Cineuropa
About the filmmaker:
Victoria Musiedlak is a French scriptwriter and director. She studied contemporary literature and screenwriting at Sorbonne in Paris, working as the university’s first assistant director for seven years. Meanwhile, she wrote and directed three short films and wrote scripts for TV. In 2021, she directed her fourth short film, Laetitia 35 (2022), produced by Ligne 2 (Camille Deleau and Antoine Denis) and broadcasted on French public network.
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