Every day, AlloCiné recommends a film to (re)watch on TV. Tonight: a legal thriller that looks back on the second trial of Jacques Viguier, suspected of the murder of his wife, Suzanne, who disappeared in 2000.
It was in 2009, through his friend the director Karim Dridi, that screenwriter Antoine Raimbault heard about Jacques Viguier. Nine years earlier, the latter was accused of the murder of Suzanne, his missing wife. Antoine Raimbault attends the trials against him, meets the couple’s children and thus discovers the fate of a man accused without evidence. The Viguier case becomes, in his eyes, the symbol of the dysfunctions of French justice.
The director takes it as the subject of his first feature film. Released in 2019, An intimate conviction relates the highly publicized appeal trial of Jacques Viguier, notably defended by Éric Dupond-Moretti (played here by Olivier Gourmet), which took place in March 2010 at the Tarn assizes. While borrowing codes from the thriller, Antoine Raimbault delivers a deliberately realistic, quasi-documentary film. The names, the eavesdropping, the exchanges at the hearing… Everything is true. Only the character of Nora, interpreted by Marina Foïs, is fictitious. Constructed from numerous jurors, from Jacques Viguier’s second companion, or even from Antoine Raimbault himself, this character creates a link between the reality of the facts and the spectator through his relentlessness in bringing the truth to light.
A meticulous dive into the mysteries of justice, An intimate conviction has an average viewer rating of 4/5 on AlloCiné.
An intimate conviction of Antoine Raimbault with Marina Foïs, Olivier Gourmet, Laurent Lucas…
Tonight on France 3 at 9:10 p.m.