TROIS JOURS ET UNE VIE

by Nicolas Boukhrief

(THREE DAYS AND A LIFE) 

Nov 

27

Drama, thriller | 2020 | 120 min | France | French (English subtitles) | Unrated | 18 and over

Cast:  Sandrine Bonnaire, Pablo Pauly, Jeremy Senez, Philippe Torreton, Margot Bancilhon, Charles Berling, Dimitri Storoge, Arben Bajraktaraj, Yann Blanc, Igor Van Dessel, Murielle Texier, Léo Lévy

1999. A child has just disappeared in Olloy, in the Belgian Ardennes. The suspicion that falls on various villagers, one by one, quickly brings the whole community to a boiling point. But an unexpected, devastating event will suddenly reshuffle the cards of fate...

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FESTIVALS:  

• Richmond French Film Festival (USA, 2020)

• Rendez-vous with French Cinema in Paris (2020)

• La fête du cinéma French Film Festival UK (2020)

• Tübingen-Stuttgart International French-language Film Festival (Germany, 2019)

• Rome Film Fest (2019)

• Helvetia French Film Festival (Switzerland, 2019)

• COLCOA French Film Festival (Los Angeles, 2019)

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PRESS:  

Director Nicolas Boukhrief exhibits extraordinary elegance and psychological restraint in bringing master crime writer Pierre Lemaitre’s own adaptation of his haunting 2016 novel to the screen… A taut, suspenseful character study.

— Lost in Frenchlation

Three Days and One Life is a heartbreaking, gripping thriller about missteps and terrible secrets, and the enormous toll they take on one boy’s life.

— City of Lights, City of Angels French Film Festival

Nicolas Boukhrief directs a compelling provincial thriller based upon Pierre Lemaître’s bestseller, where the line between innocence and guilt becomes irreversibly blurred. (…)

Between lies, omissions, hidden love and double crossing, the subtle line between innocence and guilt forms the focus of this film noir, a very well-interwoven and well-acted work (Charles Berling and Philippe Torreton also star in the cast) which slowly but surely uncovers unmentionable secrets involving those we’d least expect.

— Cineuropa

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