What are "Human Things" in a Rape Case?

• “Human Things” is inspired by a novel by Karin Tuil about a rape.

• A young girl accuses a boy from a good family of having assaulted her during a party.

• Yvan Attal lets the spectator form his own opinion on the facts that justice is trying to decide.

When Yvan Attal tackles a serious subject, it succeeds!

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, discovered in Venice then at the end of the Deauville Festival, he sends back to back a boy (played by his son Ben) and a girl (Suzanne Jouannet who is making her screen debut) in a rape case. .

She accuses this young man from a good family of having raped her during a student party.

He denies outright.

It's word against word.

"I immediately saw the cinematographic potential of Karin Tuil's novel," Yvan Attal tells

.

Especially at a time when people are condemned in four seconds on social media.

The lawsuit which results from these accusations puts young people on the spot, but also their close relations embodied by Charlotte Gainsbourg, Pierre Arditi, Mathieu Kassovitz, Benjamin Lavernhe or Audrey Dana.

A matter of points of view

On a theme close

to Ridley Scott's

, Yvan Attal chooses not to take sides for either of them, which makes his film as original as it is thrilling. “As the father of a girl and two boys, I was constantly roused between the two young protagonists and their parents. This is what confirms the need to judge in court and not elsewhere. It is not for nothing that it takes thirty months of instruction before a trial. We quickly understand that even in a rape case, nothing is simple. It is all this subtlety that makes

very engaging, as the secrets and weaknesses of both parties are revealed little by little.

The story then takes the form of a thriller to confront the different versions of the facts, leaving the viewer to form their own opinion. The film speaks of consent but also of social pressure and differences of environment to paint a complex picture. “The truth is not always uniform, notes Yvan Attal. It varies depending on where you stand. I, for example, can change my point of view, including politics. When I act as an actor and want to go home early to find my family, I am on the left. While as a director, I am on the right because I am ready to make my collaborators work more! "

If he jokes in his statements, Yvan Attal tackles this theme with seriousness and sobriety on the screen.

places the characters and the audience alike in front of their contradictions, which makes it a very rich work.

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