L'affaire Seznec
| Title: | L'affaire Seznec |
| Year: | 1993 |
| Directors: | Yves Boisset |
| Writers: | Yves Boisset (writer) Denis Langlois (book) |
| Actors: | Christophe Malavoy | Nathalie Roussel | Madeleine Robinson | Jean Yanne | Jacques Spiesser | Roland Blanche | Maxime Leroux | Jean-Marc Bory | Didier Agostini | Bernard Bloch | Jean Bouchard | Philippe Brizard | Julien Bukowski | Jacques Chailleux | Agnès Château |
| Rating: | 7.2 | 31 votes |
| Languages: | French |
| Color: | Color |
| Country: | France |
| Company: | Club d'Investissement Média |
| Genres: | Biography | Crime | Drama |
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| 1) The Seznec affair is one of the biggest judicial affairs that France hasever known. Yves Boisset’s television movie is based on a story thatreallyhappened in 1923. It deals with a man, Guillaume Seznec who leads awealthyexistence. But one day, his life’s turning upside down when he’s underarrest. Indeed, he’s suspected to have killed Pierre Quemeneur, a rich manand one of his best friends. But the problem is that Quemeneur’s body hasdisappeared and the police’s got very few clues…
Although, Boisset’s work stands as a modest television movie, it deservestobe watched, especially if you are mesmerized by this Seznec’s affair thatcaused so much sensation in France and it divided the public opinion. Asforthe director, well we can say that Boisset feels compassion and pity forhismain character and he tends to despise the representatives of justice:policemen and judges during the trial because these last ones think he’sguilty about Quemeneur’s disappearance. His work is also a denunciation ofinjustice and miscarriage of justice. With all these remarks, you can qualify Boisset’s film as demagogicbecauseBoisset agrees with the public opinion that regards the Seznec Affair asthesymbol of miscarriage of justice. But by this way, he’s just giving us hisopinion and attempts to relate as precisely as possible the events relatedin Denis Langlois’s book about the Seznec affair. Moreover, Seznec’scharacter is very well built by Christophe Malavoy. An honest and by moments touching television movie. |
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