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In developing the film's screenplay, Vincent Le Port performed [[archival research]], diving into the papers of [[Alexandre Lacassagne]], a forensic physican who founded a school of modern criminology in Lyon. Lacassagne interviewed Reidal and took his testimony.<ref name="Libération">{{cite news|last=Chessel|first=Luc|date=13 July 2021|title=''Bruno Reidal'', la palme Doré|url=https://www.liberation.fr/culture/cinema/bruno-reidal-la-palme-dore-20210713_BGHQ5U4YXNDZHIPJZWEHTRLXZI/|work=[[Libération]]|language=fr|access-date=14 July 2023|url-access=subscription}}</ref>
In developing the film's screenplay, Vincent Le Port performed [[archival research]], diving into the papers of [[Alexandre Lacassagne]], a forensic physican who founded a school of modern criminology in Lyon. Lacassagne interviewed Reidal and took his testimony.<ref name="Libération">{{cite news|last=Chessel|first=Luc|date=13 July 2021|title=''Bruno Reidal'', la palme Doré|url=https://www.liberation.fr/culture/cinema/bruno-reidal-la-palme-dore-20210713_BGHQ5U4YXNDZHIPJZWEHTRLXZI/|work=[[Libération]]|language=fr|access-date=14 July 2023|url-access=subscription}}</ref>


Filming took place between 10 July and 21 August 2019, between the communes of [[Campouriez]], [[Thérondels]] ([[Aveyron]]) and [[Jabrun]] ([[Cantal]]), as well as [[Autun]] ([[Saône-et-Loire]]), [[Magnac-Laval]], [[Montrol-Sénard]] and the forest of [[Saint-Léger-la-Montagne]] ([[Haute-Vienne]]).<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.filmfrance.net/v2/fr/home.cfm?choixmenu=films2&filmsphotos=1&monidfilm=2749|title=Ça s'est tourné près de chez vous : ''Bruno Reidal''|website=Film France|language=fr|access-date=13 juillet 2021}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.fondation-gan.com/sur-le-tournage-de-bruno-reidal|title=Sur le tournage de ''Bruno Reidal''|website=Fondation Gan|language=fr|access-date=15 July 2021}}</ref> Filming resumed between 11 and 20 December 2019, including at the [[Chartreuse Saint-Sauveur]] in [[Villefranche-de-Rouergue]].<ref name="Bessou" />
Filming took place between 10 July and 21 August 2019, between the communes of [[Campouriez]], [[Thérondels]] ([[Aveyron]]) and [[Jabrun]] ([[Cantal]]), as well as [[Autun]] ([[Saône-et-Loire]]), [[Magnac-Laval]], [[Montrol-Sénard]] and the forest of [[Saint-Léger-la-Montagne]] ([[Haute-Vienne]]).<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.filmfrance.net/v2/fr/home.cfm?choixmenu=films2&filmsphotos=1&monidfilm=2749|title=Ça s'est tourné près de chez vous : ''Bruno Reidal''|website=Film France|language=fr|access-date=13 juillet 2021}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.fondation-gan.com/sur-le-tournage-de-bruno-reidal|title=Sur le tournage de ''Bruno Reidal''|website=Fondation Gan|language=fr|access-date=15 July 2021}}</ref> Filming took place again in Aveyron, between 11 and 20 December 2019,<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.fondation-gan.com/vincent-le-port-laureat-2018-poursuit-le-tournage-de-bruno-reidal/|title=Vincent Le Port, lauréat 2018, poursuit le tournage de BRUNO REIDAL|date=5 December 2019|website=Fondation Gan|language=fr|access-date=15 July 2021}}</ref> including in [[Rodez]] and at the Saint-Sauveur monastery in [[Villefranche-de-Rouergue]].<ref name="Bessou" /><ref>{{cite news|date=28 November 2019|title=Des figurants recherchés pour le film "Bruno Reidal"|url=https://www.ladepeche.fr/2019/11/28/des-figurants-recherches-pour-le-film-bruno-reidal,8568142.php|newspaper=[[La Dépêche du Midi|La Dépêche]]|language=fr|access-date=14 July 2023}}</ref>


==Release==
==Release==

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Bruno Reidal
Theatrical release poster
Directed byVincent Le Port
Written byVincent Le Port
Produced by
  • Roy Arida
  • Thierry Lounas
  • Pierre-Emmanuel Urcun
Starring
  • Dimitri Doré
  • Jean-Luc Vincent
  • Roman Villedieu
CinematographyMichaël Capron[1]
Edited byJean-Baptiste Alazard[1]
Production
companies
Distributed byCapricci
Release dates
  • 12 July 2021 (2021-07-12) (Cannes)
  • 23 March 2022 (2022-03-23) (France)
Running time
101 minutes[1]
CountryFrance
LanguageFrench
Budget€1.5 million[2]
Box office$51,641[3]

Bruno Reidal, subtitled Confession d'une meurtrier (English: Confession(s) of a Murderer), is a 2021 French crime drama film written and directed by Vincent Le Port in his feature debut.[1][4] The film premiered in the Critics' Week section of the 2021 Cannes Film Festival, where it competed for the Caméra d'Or and Queer Palm. It was theatrically released in France on 23 March 2022.

Synopsis

On an otherwise ordinary day in 1905, 17-year-old seminarian Bruno Reidal murders a 12-year-old boy in the woods near his village in the Cantal area. He then turns himself in. To understand why he committed the murder, a group of doctors led by Professor Lacassagne investigates the case. They question Bruno and ask him to write an account of his life from childhood through to the day of the crime.

During his childhood, Bruno was physically and sexually abused by his parents and had a distant relationship with his siblings. At some point, dark murderous fantasies had arisen in him. The seminary seemed to be the only way for Bruno to escape from his family and his violent thoughts and feelings. But he couldn't resist the desire to harm or kill his male classmates, and agonized silently in his guilt. He projected his thoughts primarily onto the handsome seminarian Blondel, but chooses François Raulhac as his victim that day.

Cast

  • Dimitri Doré as Bruno Reidal
    • Roman Villedieu as Bruno Reidal, age 10
    • Alex Fanguin as Bruno Reidal, age 6
  • Jean-Luc Vincent as Alexandre Lacassagne
  • Tino Vigier as Blondel
  • Nelly Bruel as the mother
  • Ivan Chiodetti as the father
  • Dominique Legrand as Doctor Papillon
  • Antoine Brunel as Doctor Rousset
  • René Loyon as le supérieur
  • Rémy Leboucq as the shepherd
  • Tristan Chiodetti as François

Production

Bruno Reidal was produced by Thierry Lounas for Capricci and by Roy Arida and Pierre-Emmanuel Urcun for Stank. It was co-produced by Arte France Cinéma.[4][5]

In developing the film's screenplay, Vincent Le Port performed archival research, diving into the papers of Alexandre Lacassagne, a forensic physican who founded a school of modern criminology in Lyon. Lacassagne interviewed Reidal and took his testimony.[6]

Filming took place between 10 July and 21 August 2019, between the communes of Campouriez, Thérondels (Aveyron) and Jabrun (Cantal), as well as Autun (Saône-et-Loire), Magnac-Laval, Montrol-Sénard and the forest of Saint-Léger-la-Montagne (Haute-Vienne).[7][8] Filming took place again in Aveyron, between 11 and 20 December 2019,[9] including in Rodez and at the Saint-Sauveur monastery in Villefranche-de-Rouergue.[2][10]

Release

The film was selected as a special screening in the Critics' Week section at the 74th Cannes Film Festival,[5][11] where it had its world premiere on 12 July 2021.[12][13] It had its theatrical release in France through Capricci on 23 March 2022.[14] International sales are handled by Indie Sales.[4]

Reception

Critical response

Bruno Reidal received an average rating of 4.1 out of 5 stars on the French website AlloCiné, based on 27 reviews.[15]

Reviewing the film following its Cannes premiere, Luc Chessel of Libération called it a "pretty incredible film: first, with a diabolical frankness, which strikes as mastery and commands our admiration, but also, as it progresses, reveals itself much more devious than it seems."[6] Voici described it as a "gripping, awkward and masterful debut feature." Sophie Avon of Sud Ouest wrote that the film has a "sharp beauty that mixes the savagery of the act and the splendor of nature, the atrocity of murder and the fragility of childhood."[16] The film's staging was praised by Stéphanie Belpêche of Le Journal du Dimanche,[17] Thomas Bauras of Première[18] and by Emily Barnett of Marie Claire, the latter of whom wrote, "The pictorial and ultra-precise staging dazzles with its virtuosity."[19] Marie José Sirach of L'Humanité wrote, "There is something fascinating in Vincent Le Port's filming. The beauty of this filmed primitive nature evokes the works of master painters. The compositions of groups, within the school, the family farm, the reconstructions of the black-and-white postcards of yesteryear [...] come as close as possible to the condition of the peasants of that time."[20]

The film was panned by The Playlist's Kevin Jagernauth, who criticized the character development of Bruno: "There is a certain horror about an otherwise banal adolescent who is capable of such harm, but Le Port's film is never insightful enough to draw that out, or rich enough to penetrate beyond its surface layer. It leaves us with a criminal portrait that, for all of its carefully selected hyperfocus, completely fails to see the big picture."[21] Olivier Delcroix of Le Figaro wrote, "Cold, fetishistic, tortured, this stiff psychiatric study is boring to the highest degree."[22]

Awards and nominations

Awards and nominations for Bruno Reidal
Award Date of ceremony Category Recipient(s) Result Ref.
Cannes Film Festival 17 July 2021 Caméra d'Or Vincent Le Port Nominated [23][24]
Queer Palm Vincent Le Port Nominated [25][26]
Lumières Award 16 January 2023 Most Promising Actor Dimitri Doré Won [27]
Best First Film Nominated
César Awards 24 February 2023 Best First Feature Film Nominated [28]
Most Promising Actor Dimitri Doré Nominated

References

  1. ^ a b c d Heyrendt, Hubert (3 March 2023). ""Bruno Reidal" : ce jeune séminariste de 17 ans vient avouer le meurtre sauvage d'un jeune garçon de 12 ans, qu'il a décapité..." La Libre (in French). Retrieved 14 July 2023.
  2. ^ a b Bessou, Marie-Christine (5 January 2020). "Décor d'un film sur un séminariste assassin". La Dépêche (in French). Retrieved 14 July 2023.
  3. ^ "Marinette (2023)". Box Office Mojo. IMDb. Retrieved 14 July 2023.
  4. ^ a b c Keslassy, Elsa (7 June 2021). "Cannes' Critics' Week Title 'Bruno Reidal – Confession of a Murderer' Boarded by Indie Sales (EXCLUSIVE)". Variety. Retrieved 14 July 2023.
  5. ^ a b "Bruno Reidal Bruno Reidal, Confession of a Murderer". Semaine de la Critique. Retrieved 14 July 2023.
  6. ^ a b Chessel, Luc (13 July 2021). "Bruno Reidal, la palme Doré". Libération (in French). Retrieved 14 July 2023.
  7. ^ "Ça s'est tourné près de chez vous : Bruno Reidal". Film France (in French). Retrieved 13 juillet 2021. {{cite web}}: Check date values in: |access-date= (help)
  8. ^ "Sur le tournage de Bruno Reidal". Fondation Gan (in French). Retrieved 15 July 2021.
  9. ^ "Vincent Le Port, lauréat 2018, poursuit le tournage de BRUNO REIDAL". Fondation Gan (in French). 5 December 2019. Retrieved 15 July 2021.
  10. ^ "Des figurants recherchés pour le film "Bruno Reidal"". La Dépêche (in French). 28 November 2019. Retrieved 14 July 2023.
  11. ^ Tartaglione, Nancy (7 June 2021). "Cannes: Critics' Week Unveils 60th Anniversary Lineup – Full List". Deadline. Retrieved 14 July 2023.
  12. ^ "Le goût de Cannes, jour 7". Vanity Fair (in French). France. 12 July 2021. Retrieved 14 July 2023.
  13. ^ Morel, Jean-Baptiste (13 July 2021). "Cannes 2021. Carnet de bord, jour 7 : une place en orchestre, Franck Dubosc et du punk". Actu.fr (in French). Retrieved 14 July 2023.
  14. ^ "Bruno Reidal, De nos frères blessés, Plumes... : les sorties ciné de la semaine". CNC.fr (in French). 21 March 2022. Retrieved 14 July 2023.
  15. ^ "Critiques Presse pour le film Bruno Reidal, confession d'un meurtrier". AlloCiné (in French). Retrieved 14 July 2023.
  16. ^ Avon, Sophie (16 March 2022). "Cinéma : Bruno Reidal, petit paysan, séminariste et tueur". Sud Ouest (in French). Retrieved 14 July 2023.
  17. ^ "Ambulance, La Brigade, Le Temps des secrets… Les critiques des films en salles cette semaine". Le Journal du Dimanche (in French). 19 March 2022. Retrieved 14 July 2023.
  18. ^ Baurez, Thomas (22 March 2022). "Bruno Reidal : un premier film impressionnant sur un fait divers terrible [critique]". Première (in French). Retrieved 14 July 2023.
  19. ^ Barnett, Emily; Coquebert, Vincent; Peiteado, Maëlys (14 March 2022). "Les films à ne pas louper au cinéma en mars". Marie Claire (in French). Retrieved 14 July 2023.
  20. ^ Sirach, Marie-José (23 March 2022). "Bruno Reidal, paysan du Cantal, assassin ordinaire". L'Humanité (in French). Retrieved 14 July 2023.
  21. ^ Jagernauth, Kevin (14 July 2021). "'Bruno Reidal, Confession Of A Murderer' Is An Empty, Misguided True Crime Provocation [Cannes Review]". The Playlist. Retrieved 14 July 2023.
  22. ^ Delcroix, Olivier; Neuhoff, Éric; Sorin, Etienne; Harmange, Albane; Kennedy, Douglas (23 March 2022). "L'ombre d'un mensonge, Le Temps des secrets, Ambulance... Les films à voir ou à éviter cette semaine". Le Figaro (in French). Retrieved 14 July 2023.
  23. ^ Goodfellow, Melanie (30 June 2021). "Cannes unveils Caméra d'Or jury, confirms 31 eligible first features". Screen International. Archived from the original on 14 July 2023. Retrieved 14 July 2023.
  24. ^ "Festival de Cannes : la Française Julia Ducournau remporte la Palme d'or pour son film Titane". Le Monde (in French). AFP. 17 July 2021. Retrieved 14 July 2023.
  25. ^ Lucia, Thibault (28 June 2021). "Cannes 2021 : les 26 films en compétition pour la Queer Palm". Les Inrockuptibles (in French). Retrieved 14 July 2023.
  26. ^ "Festival de Cannes : La Fracture de Catherine Corsini, Queer Palm 2021". Le Figaro (in French). AFP. 17 July 2021. Retrieved 14 July 2023.
  27. ^ Goodfellow, Melanie (16 January 2023). "Dominik Moll's 'The Night Of The 12th' & Albert Serra's 'Pacification' Lead Prizes At French Lumière Awards". Deadline. Retrieved 14 July 2023.
  28. ^ Jamet, Constance (25 January 2023). "César: La Nuit du 12, En Corps, L'Innocent, en tête des nominations". Le Figaro (in French). Retrieved 27 January 2023.
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