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#MeToo Cinema: Laurent Lafitte invites us not to confuse “justice” and “revenge”

In full promotion of Count of Monte Cristo In Cannes, Laurent Lafitte, who plays one of the characters in the film, invites us not to confuse revenge and justice in the #MeToo cinema theme.

Fiction at the service of reality. In full promotion of Count of Monte Cristo In Cannes, alongside Pierre Niney, actor Laurent Lafitte drew a parallel between the film and the #MeToo movement, which is sweeping French cinema.

HE Count of Monte Cristo by Dumas is one of the most famous revenge stories in literature. The ultra-popular Pierre Niney takes on the role of Edmond Dantès, unjustly imprisoned in the Château d’If. His revenge, meditated for decades during which he became Count of Monte Cristo, will be relentless.

“The more he gets revenge, the more he realizes that this will not solve his injury,” analyzes Laurent Lafitte. (…) It is a story of revenge, but it is also a story that opposes justice to revenge. When we take revenge, we do not have the same satisfaction as when we do justice. “And he continues:

“It is very important, right now, with so many things happening in the cinema. It is very important that justice is done, that justice is done. Otherwise it is revenge, but it is not the same victory,” he comments without going into more details. . .

This 77th edition of the Cannes Film Festival is marked by the #Metoo movement, whose new wave is reaching French cinema, in particular thanks to Judith Godrèche. The actress, who denounced the controlling relationship that director Benoît Jacquot had with her when she was 14 years old, has become a figure for the liberation of the word in cinema.

Great adventure fresco

A great fresh adventure, carried by the romantic breath of Alexandre Dumas, this new adaptation will premiere in theaters on June 28.

To condense the nearly 2,000 pages of the original work, the film, which lasts almost two hours, takes some liberties regarding the plot, multiplying the ellipses. But it retains the epic breath and the pleasure of adventure, even with some Indiana Jones-style scenes.

Alexandre de La Patellière and Matthieu Delaporte, the scriptwriters of the two parts of the Three Musketeersreleased last year, he is at the helm of direction, this time with one of the biggest budgets of the year in French cinema.

In the rest of the cast: Anaïs Demoustier, in the role of Mercédès, Anamaria Vartolomei (revealed in The event and also present in Cannes in Maria) or the Italian actor Pierfrancesco Favino, member of the Cannes jury in the role of Abbot Faria. Laurent Lafitte completes the cast, in the role of Gérard de Villefort.

Author: Claire Fleury with Magali Rangin
Source: BFM TV

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