A French: “The controversy has no place” – Screenrush

The director Diastème and Alban Lenoir actor back on the controversy surrounding the theatrical release of “A French” …

This is the 10 next June that viewers will discover a French theatrical, the story of redemption, that of Mark, a young skinhead who will give up hatred and violence within him. Told over a period of 28 years from 1985 to 2013, the film directed by Diastème obviously has a political dimension and explores the rise of the extreme right in France but especially evokes an entire era through the eyes of his hero. While a route, first made violence and encounters, insights and humanism.

I have not felt like making a film that casts a stone into the pond

Because it concerns a matter never really addressed by the French cinema, film was the target of various attacks on social networks from the launch of his trailer. In front of this wave of hatred and, at the approach of the theatrical release, several premieres deprogramming were held, along with a reduction of the originally planned number of cinemas. Diastema and Alban Lenoir, the hero of the film, come back to this controversy that had no reason to be, what it says but also for the support received by those who actually saw the film and not his stringer ad …

= & gt; Back on the controversy surrounding the release of a French