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Director: Olivier Meyrou
Screenplay: Olivier Meyrou
Awards :
Best Documentary Film, Berlin Film Festival (2006)
Running time: 86’
Production: France, 2005
Rating: Not Rated
Gauge: 35mm (color)
Genre: Documentary
Distributor: First Run Features
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"Viewers expecting daytime-TV style histrionics
from such emotive material will be struck by the quiet,
contained dignity of Chenu's family, none of whom ever
raises his or her voice. Film requires auds not just
to look but to listen, and deploys sound in an imaginative
and exemplary way."
Leslie Felperin, Variety
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Twenty-nine-year-old
François Chenu, openly homosexual, was murdered on
the night of September 13, 2002 in a park in Reims, France
by three skinheads. Olivier Meyrou’s camera follows
François’ parents, sisters and brothers as each
member tries to deal with his or her grief. In the course
of filming, the family changes. The grief is gradually replaced
by a desire to understand the murderers, who come from socially
and culturally underprivileged families. The young murderers
were exploited by right-wing radical groups. As a filmmaker,
Meyrou did not want to make a documentary about homophobia,
but a universal film about tolerance and intolerance. He arrived
in Reims before the skinheads’ trial in order to meet
the attorneys for both parties, but especially François’
family. His tact and sensitivity lead them to accept him.
After a few months Meyrou brought his camera along. Soon,
all those involved forgot that the camera was there and spoke
with great dignity and natural authority, and without the
least tendency to pathos.
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