03/04/2013 - The actor gives his latest performance in Philippe Godeau’s film, which tells the story of the appropriation, in 2009, of €11.6 million by a security van driver

Ever since Tell No One [+see also:
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In 2009, Toni Musulin, who is currently serving five years in jail, non-violently put his hands on €11.6 million (of which €2.5 million was never found). “I didn’t want to meet him in jail, it seemed more interesting to me to let my imagination go, take away his voice, make him into someone taciturn, which enriches his enigmatic profile,” François Cluzet explained for whom this robbery “is the response of a humiliated man. He was mistreated on the job, risking his life every day for €1,700 a month and they treat him like a dog. He sincerely believed his bosses could pay dearly for their mistakes. In this world, the realization of someone is often tied to his salary. There is a sense of values that has disappeared and we cannot get back.”  

Other films to hit movie theatres this Wednesday are Australian French coproduction Perfect Mothers [+see also:
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Non national European productions are being well represented with Kinshasa Kids [+see also:
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interview: Marc-Henri Wajnberg
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interview: Asli Özge
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Among documentaries of note are La maison de la radio by Nicolas Philibert (discovered at the Berlinale - Les Films du Losange in 75 cinemas), Free Angela & All Political Prisoners by Shola Lynch (France/USA - Jour2Fête in 23 cinemas), Jaurès by Vincent Dieutre (review) and Une jeunesse by François Caillat.

(Translated from French)