JE VERRAI TOUJOURS VOS VISAGES

A film about repair and the importance of relationship, where direct encounters bring about potentials for mending, and where every attempt is a leap.

A film still from Je verrai toujours vos visages (2023), Jeanne Herry

Jeanne Herry’s commitment to theatricality makes for a production celebrating the triumph of dialogue and where speech is action, and gives story its full depth. At stake are sensibly staged interviews curious of fragility, sensitivity and virility, and delivered with commendable unguarded execution. Two protagonists will never meet but are each engaged in a strenuous process of restorative justice. A film about repair and the importance of relationship, where direct encounters bring about potentials for mending, and where every attempt is a leap. In France, restorative justice is free, and complementary to criminal justice since 2014. In the adroitly narrated script, Herry’s hand places the collective centre stage, because belief in the individual is not barren. A fascinating subject all the more significant as it reflects something of the times.