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It was this thought in the mind of a terrified
man that prompted Spanish director Isaki Lacuesta to make "One
Year, One Night" examining the aftermath of the attack, in which
90 concertgoers died, as well as another 40 elsewhere in Paris.
The drama, based on Gonzalez's real-life experiences, premiered
at the Berlin Film Festival on Sunday. It follows the impact of
that one night on Ramon, played by Nahuel Perez Biscayart, and
his partner Celine, played by Noemie Merlant.
The trauma prompts Ramon to rethink his life, quitting his job
to become a teacher, but the memory of the sounds and smells of
that night floor him repeatedly.
"In the type of society that we now live in and the types of
lives we lead, we all do such an enormous amount of things that
we don't want to do but we hold off from changing," said
Lacuesta on the red carpet ahead of the premiere.
Celine, seemingly better able to master her feelings, throws
herself into caring for her emotionally injured partner - but at
the expense of postponing her own reckoning with the night that
scarred them.
The film lures the audience into sharing the couple's
bewilderment, shocking them with sudden noises and unexpected
movements, but also by springing fragments of that night on the
viewer, forcing them to experience the same slow reckoning with
the shards of a shattered memory.
A Monteverdi aria underpins the film, repeated throughout but
subjected to ever greater distortion as the protagonists
question their memories.
"Making it was an emotional rollercoaster," Lacuesta said,
describing how, halfway through filming, they realised they
still had a "waterflow of emotions, from the most euphoric to
tragic" ahead of them.
(Reporting by Thomas Escritt and Hanna Rantala, Editing by
Rosalba O'Brien)
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