Persecution

A Feature film of

Patrice Chéreau

Produced by

Move Movie

Production year2009

French release09/12/2009

Runtime1 h 40 min

Synopsis

For his friends, of whom there are many, Daniel is a guy who is doing fine and who always exits unscathed from any situation. Struggles to keep everything on an even keel, difficult situations that require careful consideration and composure - Daniel has a talent for managing these that leaves others envious.

So much the better, because for some time now, he has needed a fair degree of determination to deal with a guy who is hassling him. A guy who came out of nowhere and who seems to think that Daniel is a gift from God and the man of his dreams. Hassling him: which means walking behind him down the street, knowing his schedule, entering Daniel's work places. Daniel is doing work for a buddy, renovating an apartment. He thinks he's alone. But right from the beginning, there have been two of them.

Daniel works regularly, but always in different places. He's his own boss; this allows him to live, free, without any constraints. He stops when he feels like it; he takes on another job when it suits him. Sometimes it's difficult, but he doesn't complain.

At least when it comes to work, that is. Sometimes Daniel gets worked up and complains about... Sonia. He's loved her for three years. She also loves him. He only just manages to recognize the latter at certain moments during the day, whereas at other times, he fails to recognize it at all. Sonia gives him few reasons to worry or doubt. Of course her timetable can sometimes be complicated, but nothing impossible, and there's the fatigue brought on by too much work, because the firm that employs her keeps giving her more and more tasks to do. He knows that deep down everything is okay. Even so, when she is there right in front of him, suddenly out of the blue, all certainty is swept away: Daniel's anxiety and anger get the upper hand. They make him become unjust, a persecutor; he becomes this hostile, hateful man who keeps nitpicking at every little thing that they've been in agreement about for ages. Suffering invades everything.

Perhaps it is this suffering that initially made Sonia love Daniel. Now it has become an insurmountable wall between them. And then there's this stranger who's ruining Daniel's life, who keeps turning up and who is no longer happy just to observe. Now he's got an opinion about everything, particularly about love. This troublesome and obsessive stranger knows how one should love and says it out loud and clear; Daniel could kill him for it.

Daniel, this man who suffers too much to love, without persecuting, the woman he has chosen.

Credits

Director (1)

Patrice Chéreau
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Production and distribution (4)

Executive Producer : Move Movie

Co-production : Azor Films

Film exports/foreign sales : mk2 films

French distribution : Mars Films

Full credits (17)

Executive Producer : Bruno Lévy

Screenwriters : Patrice Chéreau, Anne-Louise Trividic

Director of Photography : Yves Cape

Assistant Director : Antoine Garceau

Editor : François Gédigier

Sound recordists : Guillaume Sciama, Stéphane Reichart

Costume designer : Caroline De Vivaise

Producer : Nicolas Royer

Co-producer : Rémi Burah

Production Manager : Nicolas Royer

Press Attaché (film) : André-Paul Ricci

Sound editor : Nadine Muse

Continuity supervisor : Suzanne Durrenberger

Production Designer : Sylvian Chauvelot

Casting : Pascale Béraud

Sound Mixer : Olivier Dô Hûu

Still Photographer : Luc Roux

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15 NOVEMBER 2023

Presentation of "Persecution" - Rendez-Vous with French Cinema (New York, 2013)

American director James Toback and French actor Romain Duris introduce a special screening of Persecution (by Patrice Chereau) at the Brooklyn Academy of Music (BAM) in New York.

Event : Rendez-Vous with French Cinema
Location : New York City
Date : March 1st, 2013

More info : http://en.unifrance.org/festivals-and-markets/588/new-york-rendez-vous-with-french-cinema-today/2013