the true story behind the film with Vincent Cassel and Reda Kateb

For its famous Sunday evening cinema meeting, TF1 has decided to delight its viewers by offering a new film, this Sunday, October 16. In effect, the television channel planned to broadcast Outstanding, a feature film released in 2019 and directed by Olivier Nakache and Éric Toledano. Worn by Vincent Cassel and Reda Kateb, this romantic comedy risks to move the most sensitive. And for good reason: the story is inspired by the journey of Stéphane Benhamou and Daoud Tatou, two educators who are committed to caring for adolescents and young adults with severe autism through two associations, Le Silence des Justes (The Voice of the Righteous, in the film) and Le Relais Île-de-France.

In the film, Vincent Cassel plays Bruno Haroche, the director of La Voix des Justes, an association suspected by the General Inspectorate of Social Affairs of employing unqualified staff. The character must then wage a double battle: that of maintain its structure at arm’s length and that of integrating young people with severe disorders into society. And even if it seems insurmountable, the protagonist and his sidekick Malik, director of another association, go make every effort to achieve their ends.

Movie scenes inspired by reality

Obviously, in order for his work to best illustrate reality, Olivier Nakache has bet on film scenes that actually happened. To do this, the director called on real autistic people and real supervisors for total immersion. “It was unthinkable that we have actors who play young people with autism“he said to justify his choice, before returning to the performance of Benjamin Lesieur, a young autistic man who took the role of Joseph: “They say that actors act. Benjamin, we have the feeling that he had fun playing with us.” A poignant film.