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PostED ON 13.10.2024

Narrated in the first-person, this powerful portrait of an actor plagued by soul-searching, doubt and a lack of love, is magnificently entitled Vincent Lindon, cœur sanglant.

THE SUBJECT: 1 hour and 22 minutes in the life of Vincent Lindon, 64, winner of the Best Actor award at the Cannes Film Festival in 2015, where he also chaired the Jury in 2022. He’s both a star ‘of the people’ and a demanding creator.

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THE METHOD: Innovative, surprising, based on the assumption that the person who speaks best about Vincent Lindon is Vincent Lindon. There is thus no outside testimony (which, let’s be honest, is often embarrassingly dull), but in its place archival footage, disjointed fragments of a long interview, a camera that sticks like glue to the protagonist, and crucially, little videos and voice memos recorded by the actor, in the style of Alain Cavalier. Hence, we are left with an intimate, even intimist approach, paradoxically blown up by the wide screen, placing the star at the centre of the universe.i

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BONUSES: Did you ever want to see the view from Vincent Lindon's flat? His wardrobe? His stationary bike? His Cannes suite during his stint as President of the Jury, the same suite from which he called his daughter Suzanne on the phone? It's all in there. But it also puts on display the loneliness, bordering on despair, of a proud yet ultra-fragile man, constantly questioning his place in the world and returning to his childhood, commenting on the lack of affection he felt from his parents, despite his strong love for them. The violence of this soul-baring documentary is at times so overwhelming that we are relieved to hear the verbose actor extolling the virtues of an American action movie, The Equalizer, claiming, “I would have starred in it, if I’d been  born on the other side of the Atlantic...”

Aurélien Ferenczi

Vincent Lindon, cœur sanglant by Thierry Demaizière et Alban Teurlai (Documentary, 2024, 1h23)

Villeurbanne Sun 13 4;30pm
Followed by a discussion with Vincent Lindon, Thierry Demaizière, and Alban Teurlai.

Pathé Bellecour Mon 14 11:15am
Followed by a discussion with Vincent Lindon, Thierry Demaizière, and Alban Teurlai.