Icarus Films will be joining forces with France’s premiere film production and distribution company, Distrib Films, on Mar. 14 for the domestic DVD debut of Frédéric Tellier's based-on-real-events thriller, Goliath.
It is often said that the best characters in movies are the villains. Pierre Niney (five-times nominated for César Awards, with a win for Best Actor for his performance as Yves Saint Laurent in filmmaker Jalil Lespert’s biopic Yves Saint Laurent) plays Mathias Rozen, a big shot with Phytosanis, the maker of Tetrazine, and he is the face of it … the face of corporate greed, corruption and, dare say it, villainy; evil in Tellier’s Goliath.
It begins with France (Emmanuelle Bercot — Best Actress César Awards-winner for My King in 2015) wanting answers about the relationship been Tetrazine and cancer, a commonly-used weed killer that is used in agriculture. She recruits environmental attorney Patrick Fameau (played by five-time César Awards nominee Gilles Lellouche — Sink or Swim, The Stronghold) to investigate and bring action against the corporate giant … it seems all but hopeless (think: Grisham’s The Rainmaker).
Slowly the case is put together as we move back and forth between the main players in the story. The forces against uncovering the truth seem daunting; over-whelming … designed by the very nature of corporations and law to be so.
Goliath is a riveting suspense tale; a powerfully-told drama that has an edge-of-your-seat feel to it. One thing is sure, you will come to dislike profoundly the character that Niney plays (expect another César Awards nomination for his performance).
Presented in French with English subtitles.
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