Johnny, a local activist, is wanted by the police after a robbery gone wrong. Paul, his childhood friend, comes back home after 15 years to find him before the police. Investigator Anna Radoszewski is also on Johnny’s trail. Thus begins a search in which memo- ries and secrets resurface. In a social context that shakes the town, everybody is looking for Johnny, who soon becomes the symbol of a revolt.
Acting
Bouillon and Lottin's fractured chemistry carries every scene
Direction
Debraux turns a factory town into a pressure cooker
Director
Baptiste Debraux
Bastien Bouillon
Paul Ligre
Léa Drucker
Anna Werner
Pierre Lottin
Johnny Laforge
Marion Barbeau
Charlène Sorbier
Théo Navarro-Mussy
Yohan Delaunay
Anne Consigny
Elizabeth Ligre
Philippe Frécon
Christian Ligre
Wim Willaert
Jan Carels
Paola Valentin
Hélène Guerrand
Éric Godon
Carbolet
Zoé Bruneau
Johnny's mother
Mohamed Kerriche
Karim Belkacem
Giovanni Pucci
Paul, 10 years old
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
The film deliberately mirrors 2018's Yellow Vest movement, with Johnny as a fictionalized composite of working-class protesters demonized then mythologized by media.
The climactic factory confrontation was shot in a functioning plant; workers were given speaking roles and rewrote their own dialogue.
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