Alice Winocour‘s “Revoir Paris,” or its English title “Paris Memories,” bowed at the Cannes Film Festival last May to general acclaim. And later on, star Virginie Efira nabbed a César for her performance. Now the film finally hits stateside, with a brief screening period at Film At Lincoln Center before it debuts in theaters in June.
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“Revoir Paris” sees Winocour further explore how trauma affects both personal and national bodies. The film follows a woman as she tries to put her life back together after surviving a terrorist attack in Paris.
Here’s a synopsis for “Revoir Paris”:
One Saturday evening in autumn, Mia is caught in a terrorist attack on a Parisian bistro. Three months later, still unable to pick her life back up and remembering only fragments of that night, Mia decides to investigate her memories to find a way back to happiness.
Alongside Efira, “Revoir Paris” also stars Benoît Magimel, Claire Denis regular Grégoire Colin, Maya Sansa, Amadou Mbow, and Nastya Golbeva. Anne-Lise Heimburger and Sofia Lesaffre round out the main cast.
“Revoir Paris” is Winocour’s first film since 2019’s “Proxima,” with Eva Green and Matt Dillon. The film had its North American premiere at TIFF last September. The Playlist reviewed “Revoir Paris” at Cannes. Our reviewer calls it “a moving healing journey, but one that feels almost too smooth, a best-case scenario with few bumps in the road and, more significantly, very few surprises.” Read the full review here.
After “Revoir Paris” opens Film At Lincoln Center’s “Rendez-Vour With French Cinema” series this weekend, it hits US theaters on June 23. Watch a trailer for the film below.