November: Does the film faithfully retrace the investigation into the attacks of November 13, 2015 ?

“November: does the film faithfully retrace the investigation into the attacks of November 13, 2015?”

Réalisé par : Cédric Jimenez Avec : Jean Dujardin , Anaïs Demoustier, Sandrine Kiberlain , Jérémie Rénier , Lyna Khoudri, Cédric Kahn Genre : Film dramatique Sorti en 05/10/2022 Durée 01h40 0 /5 Donnez votre avis Synopsis Voir la bande-annonce Regarder en streaming Photos Vos avis

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Réalisé par Cédric Jimenez, "Novembre" est un film qui relate les cinq jours d'enquête qui ont suivi les attentats du 13 novembre 2015.

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On November 13, 2015, attacks hit Paris and the Stade de France in Saint-Denis, killing 130 people. An anti-terrorism investigation was immediately launched to find the terrorists on the run. This true story, still fresh in the minds of many French people, gave rise to a film released in 2022, seven years later. Directed by by Cédric Jimenez, November does not focus so much on the attacks as on the police investigation between Paris, Brussels and Morocco and the five days that followed the tragedy. 

In the cast, the director of Bac Nord surrounded by the cream of French cinema: Jean Dujardin, Anaïs Demoustier, Sandrine Kiberlain, Jérémie Renier, Lyna Khoudri and Raphaël Quenard are among the cast of this film inspired by real events, and above all very recent ones. All the characters of the investigators have certainly been invented to protect their identity, but “they are all inspired by real people,” reveals Cédric Jimenez.

The director and screenwriter Olivier Demanger also met some of the police officers involved in the investigation of the November 13 attacks and members of the anti-terrorist sub-directorate (Sdat), in order to make the film as authentic as it is precise. “I transcribed their gestures, the way these units operate,” the filmmaker tells Allocin. They didn't give me access to all their files of course, but everything about the operation, the organization chart and the way they operate is true.”

What's true, what's false ?

November traces the five days of investigation that followed the attacks of November 13, 2015. While the scriptwriters have researched the investigation, the police officers are still bound by the secrecy of the investigation. Several elements of the plot are modified. This is the case of the false leads pursued by the Sdat, and in particular the arrest of an infiltrator or the arrest of a cocaine trafficker. Screenwriter Olivier Demangel explains to Le Parisien that it is “a mixture of several stories of false leads in the investigations of November 13 or the Charlie Hebdo attacks”, mixed together so that people wrongly arrested cannot sue the film for defamation. Furthermore, the various scenes in which the procedure was not followed were invented, reports Le Parisien.

However, elements of the film are indeed faithful to reality. This is the case of the Raid assault scene or the fact that it is Samia's testimony in November (known under the false name of Sonia in reality), which helped to unblock the investigation and reveal where Abdelhamid Abaaoud was hiding. The real Sonia, however, criticized the film for making her appear as a veiled woman, which according to her would indicate "religious convictions and a jihadist ideology comparable to that of the perpetrators of the attacks of November 13th". A warning banner was added to the end of the film to clarify the situation at his request.

Synopsis– Several attacks hit Paris on November 13, 2015, which resulted in the anti-terrorist sub-directorate being put on alert, with Héloïse at its head and her right-hand man Fred. They had to manage a completely new situation and find these terrorists on the run as quickly as possible. The phones were ringing off the hook, clues were flying, but the team had to keep a cool head and not let emotions get the better of them. But disagreements arose between the "old" rather procedural and the younger ones who work on feeling. Until a phone call that changes the course of the investigation…

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