A fan of powerful subjects, director Joachim Lafosse returns with Un Silence, a drama about incest and pedophilia. The film opens in cinemas on January 10.
In Un Silence, Daniel Auteuil plays François, a high-profile lawyer who is defending a case of pedophilia and incest that is making all the headlines. But when similar accusations arise in François's family, they fall apart, starting with his wife, played by Emmanuelle Devos, and his youngest son, played by Matthieu Galoux. Off-screen is the key word in this film, and we'll stay away from it throughout. On the one hand, the filmmaker avoids the sordid images that the characters view, but even in his device, the off-screen remains. And this does the film a disservice.
Yes, by eliding its subject, by wanting to start almost in the middle of the plot, and by remaining vague about the links between the characters, Un Silence ends up missing its markers, and the viewer ends up not understanding it at all. In fact, the film is only exciting in its final third, when tensions explode. Before that, Joachim Lafosse's film is a drama that isn't always well-handled, and that blurs the lines a little too much.
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