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When the French director Bertrand Bonello began to write Nocturama back in 2010, the terrorist attacks in Paris that were to shock public opinion all over the world were still five years away. Today, however, it is tempting to establish a link between these terrible events and the story that his film tells that was presented in the O fficial Section yesterday.
Nocturama is the chronicle of the events on the day when 4 youngsters aged from 18 to 21 meticulously carry out a terrorist attack in the French capital. Nonetheless Bonello claims that there is absolutely no connection between the terrorism carried out by ISIS and a story that he began to write well before the attacks took place. It became quite clear from the questions that the journalists asked at the press conference that Bonello gave yesterday that current events have inevitable influenced how people see the film, but as the director pointed out, there is a fi ne line between reality and fiction.
“The sources are elsewhere”, Bonello said. His story is not so much about terrorism as about an impossible uprising. It’s a story that is constructed as, “a Greek tragedy in which fate is stronger than utopia.” Bonello thinks that it is logical for French society to need time to assimilate the tragedy it has su ered so recently, but “there’s nothing wrong with this; it is a good thing to have time to reflect.”
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