The Abandonment of Samuel Paty
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Without ever giving in to caricature, Vincent Garenq's film bears witness to a weakened institution.
After the opening ceremony on Tuesday, the race at the Palme d'Or begins on Wednesday in Cannes, where will also be screened a shock film tracing the last days of Samuel Paty, professor of history-geography killed in 2020.
The Abandonment of Samuel Paty
An unexpected film is screened outside of competition at the Cannes Film Festival this Wednesday, May 13th. Called L’Abandon (The Abandonment), it recounts the days leading up to the death of Samuel Paty, the history teacher who was beheaded on October 16, 2020, for showing his pupils cartoons of Muhammad as part of a lesson on freedom of expression. The announcement of the film’s release came as a surprise, as it was important for the film’s te…
First shock at the festival: this rigorous and upsetting narrative of the teacher's last days, incarnated by Antoine Reinartz After a start all in joy and fantasy Tuesday night with "La
Presented at the Cannes Film Festival this Wednesday, "Abandon" traces the last days of Samuel Paty, the professor murdered, in 2020, by an Islamist, in front of his college of Conflans-Sainte-Honorine. His sister Mickaëlle sees it as a way of reviving the man behind the symbol.
Mickaëlle Paty was a consultant on Vincent Garenq's film, in which Antoine Reinartz embodies the professor beheaded in October 2020 and released in the theaters this Wednesday.
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