Paris Memories

The story revolves around Mia who finds herself caught up in a terrorist attack on a Parisian brasserie one Saturday night in the autumn. Three months later, still unable to pick up where she left off and remembering only piecemeal details of the event, she decides to search through her memory banks. Memories of the man she hid with and whose hand she held throughout the ordeal float back up to the surface. Is he still alive? Is she herself still alive? Mia searches the whole of Paris for this hand which saved her life…

Keywords

  • Benoît Magimel
  • Cannes: Quinzaine des Cinéastes
  • City Trips: Movies with City names
  • César 2023
  • Festival de Cannes
  • Focus: Virginie Efira
  • TIFF - Toronto International Film Festival

Actors

  • Virginie Efira
  • Benoît Magimel
  • Grégoire Colin
  • Maya Sansa
  • Nastya Golubeva Carax

Director

  • Alice Winocour

Drama


1h 45min


-12

FR


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France
2022
Three months after being caught up in a Paris bombing, a woman tries to get on with her life.

Three months after being caught up in a Paris bombing, a woman tries to get on with her life.


The story revolves around Mia who finds herself caught up in a terrorist attack on a Parisian brasserie one Saturday night in the autumn. Three months later, still unable to pick up where she left off and remembering only piecemeal details of the event, she decides to search through her memory banks. Memories of the man she hid with and whose hand she held throughout the ordeal float back up to the surface. Is he still alive? Is she herself still alive? Mia searches the whole of Paris for this hand which saved her life…

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