Icarus Films announced this past week that they will be teaming up with France’s premiere film production and distribution company, Distrib Films, on Nov. 17 for the domestic DVD debut of director Antoine Raimbault’s true-crime drama, Conviction.
What happened to Suzanne Viguier? We do not know. She vanished one day, everyone agrees on that. Was she murdered — there was blood evidence to suggest that there was foul play. Or did she just grow tired of being married and walk away?
Raimbault’s Conviction is based on Viguier’s disappearance in 2000 and the subsequent legal problems that her husband, Jacques (Laurent Lucas — Haut les Coeurs!, I Hate Love, etc.), faced. Now, the procedural workings in such a case could be a bit dull and since this is not a documentary, Raimbault introduces a personnage fictive by the name of Nora (Marina Foïs — The Workshop, Faultless, Polisse, etc.), who becomes obsessed with the innocence of Jacques and moves heaven and earth to help prove his innocence. Is she on a fool’s errand?
And what of Olivier Durandet (played by Philippe Uchan — My Mother's Castle, Désiré, etc.), Suzanne Viguier’s lover … yes, Jacques was cheating on Suzanne and so she returned the favor. All true. Did Durandet have something to do with her disappearance?
Conviction, a mystery, a real whodunit with all of the courtroom trappings … and a wicked twist. All plucked from a famous French woman’s disappearance and the subsequent murder trial of her husband. To solve the mystery … Nov. 17 catch Conviction on DVD … in French with English subtitles.
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