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U.S. Premiere \u2022 Drama, Thriller \u2022 France, 2015<\/strong><\/p>\n

DCP \u2022 2.35 \u2022 Dolby SRD \u2022 Color \u2022 94 min<\/p>\n

Directed by<\/strong>: Nicolas Boukhrief
\nWritten by<\/strong>: \u00c9ric Besnard, Nicolas Boukhrief
\nCinematography<\/strong>: Patrick Ghiringhelli
\nFilm Editing<\/strong>: Lydia Decobert
\nOriginal Score<\/strong>: Robin Coudert
\nProduced by<\/strong>: Cl\u00e9ment Miserez Radar Films
\nCast<\/strong>: Malik Zidi (Sam), Dimitri Storoge (Hassan), Fran\u00e7ois Civil (Christophe), Nassim Si Ahmed (Driss)
\n<\/strong>International Sales<\/strong>:\u00a0WTFilms<\/strong><\/p>\n

This darkly atmospheric shock-thriller takes you on a white-knuckle ride inside a cell of homegrown extremists dedicated to bringing jihad to the streets of Paris. Sam is a Franco-Algerian journalist hoping to write a tell-all exposing the threat of domestic terrorism. Using his knowledge of Islam, he infiltrates a small cadre of extremists led by Hassan, a disgruntled shoe salesman whose chief leadership credential is having met \u201cthe principals\u201d on his pilgrimage to Mecca. Hassan instructs everyone to \u201cbecome invisible.\u201d From the outside, it all appears frighteningly ordinary, except for Sam, who is now in the precarious position of a normal guy trying to look like an extremist trying to look normal. Sam discovers that the cell is comprised of young men who, far from marching in lockstep, have wildly different motivations. But as the plan moves closer to fruition, suspicion grips the conspirators, putting more than his book in immediate danger.<\/p>\n

When writer\/director\u00a0Nicolas Boukhrief<\/strong>\u00a0and his co-writer \u00c9ric Besnard (Babylon A.D.<\/em>) began to research this subject, their principal reference was the Paris commuter train bombing in 1995.\u00a0 They had no way of knowing just how prophetic the film would be, nor how much its commercial life would suffer for it. Slated initially for release in early 2015, the devastating attack on Charlie Hebdo gave the original distributor cold feet. Then the tragic Bataclan attack, coming just one week before the film\u2019s new release date, led to a second cancellation. For Boukhrief, a genre specialist, the film was conceived firstly as entertainment, but its subject matter struck raw nerves in France. Known for crime dramas like\u00a0Cash Truck<\/em>\u00a0(COLCOA 2004),\u00a0Cortex<\/em>\u00a0(2008), and\u00a0Sphinx<\/em>\u00a0(COLCOA 2010), Boukhrief began his career as a journalist, first as an editor for the genre film magazine\u00a0Starfix<\/em>, then creating the Canal + series\u00a0Le Journal du cin\u00e9ma<\/em>, which aired for more than a decade. His transition to filmmaking began in 1993, when he co-wrote\u00a0Tout le monde n’a pas eu la chance d’avoir des parents communistes\u00a0<\/em>with director\/co-writer Jean-Jacques Zilbermann.<\/p>\n

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\u201c\u2026a thoughtful and sobering \u2018what if\u2019 scenario\u00a0of home-grown, domestically targeted terrorism.\u201d
\n\u2013 Peter Debruge,\u00a0Variety<\/em><\/p>\n

\u201cThis unpleasant feeling to have in front of you a monster hidden under the usual mask is the great artistic success of\u00a0Made in France.<\/em>\u201d
\n– Thomas Coispel,\u00a0Le Blog Du Cinema<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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[vc_row][vc_column][mk_padding_divider size=”20″][vc_column_text css=”.vc_custom_1518203006409{margin-bottom: 0px !important;}”] MADE IN FRANCE [\/vc_column_text][mk_padding_divider size=”20″][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column width=”1\/2″][vc_column_text css=”.vc_custom_1518202988962{margin-bottom: 0px !important;}”] U.S. Premiere \u2022 Drama, Thriller \u2022 France, 2015 DCP \u2022 2.35 \u2022 Dolby SRD \u2022 Color \u2022 94 min Directed by: Nicolas Boukhrief Written by: \u00c9ric Besnard, Nicolas Boukhrief Cinematography: Patrick Ghiringhelli Film Editing: Lydia Decobert Original Score: Robin Coudert Produced […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"parent":16,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-1283","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theamericanfrenchfilmfestival.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1283","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theamericanfrenchfilmfestival.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theamericanfrenchfilmfestival.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theamericanfrenchfilmfestival.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theamericanfrenchfilmfestival.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1283"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/theamericanfrenchfilmfestival.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1283\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1288,"href":"https:\/\/theamericanfrenchfilmfestival.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1283\/revisions\/1288"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theamericanfrenchfilmfestival.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/16"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theamericanfrenchfilmfestival.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1283"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}