Zsuzsi Bánkuti Appointed Head Of Locarno’s Open Doors
04.08.2022 - 09:31 / variety.com
Leo Barraclough International Features EditorIn Christoph Willibald Gluck’s opera “Orpheus and Eurydice,” Orpheus must travel to the underworld to reunite with his dead wife, Eurydice. To do so, he must placate the Furies, the goddesses of vengeance, and hold onto his love for his wife.German director Kilian Riedhof had the opera in mind when adapting Antoine Leiris’ autobiographical book “You Will Not Have My Hate.” The film world premieres on Aug.
12 in Piazza Grande at the Locarno Film Festival.The book is based on Leiris’ experiences following the murder by Islamic State jihadists of his wife, Hélène Muyal-Leiris, on Nov. 13, 2015, at the Bataclan night-club — one of 130 people killed that evening in a string of terrorist attacks across Paris.
The film begins on that fateful day with Hélène preparing food for their toddler, Melvil, and the couple discussing a holiday in Corsica that they had to abandon so Hélène could pick up some freelance work. Later Hélène leaves with a friend, Bruno, for the Bataclan.We follow journalist and author Leiris, played by Pierre Deladonchamps, as he learns of the attack on the club, and his mounting sense of dread after he hears from Bruno that Hélène had been injured.
Leiris and his brother set off on a frantic tour of hospitals looking for Hélène, but eventually discover that she did not survive.Three days later, after seeing his wife’s body in the morgue, Leiris posts an open letter on Facebook. In moving words, he addresses the assassins and denies “the dead souls” his hatred – and that of his son.
Zsuzsi Bánkuti Appointed Head Of Locarno’s Open Doors
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German director Kilian Riedhof’s drama You Will Not Have My Hate is inspired by the experiences of French writer Antoine Leiris, whose wife was killed in the Bataclan nightclub during the November 13, 2015 Paris terror attacks, leaving him to raise their young son alone.
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