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A DECENT MAN \/<\/strong>Je ne suis pas un salaud<\/h2>\n[\/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_1518205373166{margin-bottom: 0px !important;}”]\n
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West Coast Premiere \u2022 Drama, Film Noir \u2022 France, 2015<\/strong><\/p>\n

DCP \u2022 1.85 \u2022 Dolby 5.1 \u2022 Color \u2022 111 min<\/p>\n

Directed by<\/strong>: Emmanuel Finkiel
\nWritten by<\/strong>: Emmanuel Finkiel, Julie Peyr
\nCinematography<\/strong>: Alexis Kavyrchine
\nFilm Editing<\/strong>: Sylvie Lager
\nOriginal Score<\/strong>: Chlo\u00e9
\nProduced by<\/strong>: Christine Gozlan, David Poirot (Thelma Films)
\nCast<\/strong>: Nicolas Duvauchelle (Eddie), Melanie Thierry (Karine), Driss Ramdi (Ahmed), Maryne Cayon (Estelle)
\n<\/strong>International Sales<\/strong>: Bac Films \u2022 bacfilms.fr<\/p>\n

The modern world is changing too fast for people like Eddie, an unemployed, underachieving 30-something separated from his wife and son. Morose and aimless, Eddie sees few opportunities for improvement from his barstool perch in the soul-sucking concrete gloom of the housing projects. Yet when Eddie is stabbed and beaten while attempting to stop some hoodlums from stealing a car radio, his life changes unexpectedly, and for the better. He\u2019s proclaimed a hero. His wife takes him back in and even finds an entry-level job. In a police line-up, Eddie fingers Ahmed, an Arab youth whom he recognizes, not from the attack, but from a sales training video. He can\u2019t say exactly why he lied, but as the law comes down hard on a man whose only crime is being an Arab with a good job, Eddie is trapped in his own downward spiral of volatility and rage.<\/p>\n

Due to the film\u2019s themes and violence, some may see it as a reaction to the November Paris attack but, in fact writer\/director\u00a0Emmanuel Finkiel<\/strong>has been working on the project for a decade. Finkiel began as an assistant director for Krzysztof Kieslowski and Jean-Luc Godard before winning a C\u00e9sar for his short film,\u00a0Madame Jacques on the Croisette<\/em>(1999). His Holocaust-themed debut feature\u00a0Voyages<\/em>\u00a0(1999) won the Best First Work C\u00e9sar and was praised for its \u201csubtlety and restraint\u201d.\u00a0A Decent Man<\/em><\/strong>\u00a0may be more hard-hitting than his earlier work, but it shows the same measured precision and studied naturalism. The film was inspired in part by a real incident in which a friend of Finkiel, named Ahmed was falsely accused after the police rounded up everyone in the area with that name. Finkiel collaborated on the screenplay with Julie Peyr, noted for her work with director Arnaud Desplechin.<\/p>\n

QUOTES:<\/p>\n

\u201cThis is a powerful \u2026 and superbly acted film, rich in messages about class, ethnicity, and the trap of wage poverty.\u201d
\n\u2013 Chris Knipp,\u00a0Filmleaf<\/em><\/p>\n

\u201cDuvauchelle\u2019s intensity is perfectly calibrated, weaving together nervous tension with a tripwire pleasantness.
\n\u2013 \u00a0Jay Weissman,\u00a0Variety<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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[vc_row][vc_column][mk_padding_divider size=”20″][vc_column_text css=”.vc_custom_1518207088019{margin-bottom: 0px !important;}”] A DECENT MAN \/Je ne suis pas un salaud [\/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_1518205373166{margin-bottom: 0px !important;}”] West Coast Premiere \u2022 Drama, Film Noir \u2022 France, 2015 DCP \u2022 1.85 \u2022 Dolby 5.1 \u2022 Color \u2022 111 min Directed by: Emmanuel Finkiel Written by: Emmanuel Finkiel, Julie Peyr Cinematography: Alexis Kavyrchine Film […]<\/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-1311","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theamericanfrenchfilmfestival.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1311","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=1311"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/theamericanfrenchfilmfestival.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1311\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1328,"href":"https:\/\/theamericanfrenchfilmfestival.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1311\/revisions\/1328"}],"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=1311"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}