BLACK BOX
2021 – 129′ – Thriller, Film Noir
Written by: Yann Gozlan, Nicolas Bouvet, Jérémie Guez, Simon Moutairou.
Directed by: Yann Gozlan.
Starring: Pierre Niney, Lou de Laâge, André Dussollier, Sébastien Pouderoux, Olivier Rabourdin, André Marcon.
Official Competition COLCOA 2021.
In French with English subtitles.
A Distrib Films US release.|
Following in the tradition of Antonioni’s Blowup or Coppola’s The Conversation, writer/director Yann Gozlan — and an excellent cast led by the ever-impeccable Pierre Niney — crafts a taut, suspenseful intrigue, unraveling the events behind a tragic incident, this time in the aeronautics industry. Matthieu, a brilliant young black-box analyst with an extraordinarily acute ear is charged with investigating a deadly plane crash. Progressively obsessed by inexplicable evidence that doesn’t add up, and spiraling further and further into the realm of paranoia, he gradually loses credibility at the BEA, the bureau that investigates aviation safety in France. So he’s forced to go rogue, risking both career and life, but determined to uncover the sordid truth.