"You will not have my hatred" shouts Pierre Deladonchamps as a widower of the Bataclan

• Pierre Deladonchamps slips into the skin of Antoine Leiris who lost his wife at the Bataclan.

• "You will not have my hatred" is based on a book in which the journalist evokes his first days of mourning with his young son.

• The brilliant performance of the actor does justice to this worthy and courageous man.

His performance is so strong in

of Kilian Riedhof that Pierre Deladonchamps completely makes you forget that he is not the real protagonist of this story.

The actor, seen recently in the excellent

by Gilles Perret, also confirms the solidity of his choices by playing Antoine Leiris, a journalist whose companion was killed at the Bataclan on November 13, 2015.

“I tried to live up to the greatness of this man.

I was impressed by his emotional intelligence in his interventions immediately after the attacks, ”recognizes Pierre Deladonchamps.

The moving message of Antoine Leiris in which he counterbalances the savagery of the terrorists with his love for his missing wife and his young son, like his books

(2016) and

(2019), fueled the actor's performance.

A man who does not give in to anger

“He concentrates the little energy he has left to take care of his 17-month-old son and give him joy, but he also has moments when he cracks up, explains Pierre Deladonchamps.

One cannot experience such a tragedy without wavering.

The story in no way angelizes this broken man trying to come to terms with an unacceptable loss.

His relationship with his son is shown very accurately both in its tenderness and in the moments when he loses patience with his rambunctious toddler.

This portrait of a man who refuses to give in to anger is heartbreaking, but the strength of character he shows in the face of horror is soothing.

The spectator shares his pain without the realization insisting in an embarrassing way on the manifestations of his pain.

“I was in contact with Antoine Leiris: he saw the film in private screening and he was happy with it, specifies Pierre Deladonchamps.

I can't imagine how he felt reliving it all as he tried to exorcise his pain in his books.

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A great political nobility

The generosity and courage of Antoine Leiris appear in this biopic of great humanity that makes you want to hug the journalist and his son.

“Antoine did not stop at his person, insists Pierre Deladonchamps.

He rose to talk to people, to heal their wounds before healing his own, which is a great political nobility.

“The one found in

, a particularly modest and dignified first film.

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