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Joachim Lafosse, who won the Silver Shell here for best director in 2015 has been inspired by the so-called Hissel Affair, concerning a lawyer acting for parents of children killed by the paedophile Marc Dutroux, to make his latest film Un silence which he presented yesterday in the Kursaal. “ I realised that I could make use of this case to describe this evil crime and its consequences” the director explained. He said he was aware that a news item couldn’t be automatically turned into a film and this is why he created three new fictional characters: a lawyer with a terrible secret; a son who knows nothing about this and a wife who has kept silent about it for 25 years. “I hope my cinema isn’t moralistic but I do have a moral compass,” Lafosse confessed after being asked about the wife’s possible complicity on not revealing her husband’s secret.
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