Les Traducteurs (2019) France – The Translators

Directed by Régis Roinsard

The French Film Festival is back!This film is a brilliant ode to writing and writers disguised as a mystery thriller. The key is in the name of the trilogy : Daedalus (the translators are assembled to do a ‘simultaneous translation’ of book III).

Daedalus was but the architect who designed the labyrinth which housed the minotaur, and, also importanly the dancing floor that held the key to the labyrinthine turns.

However, it doesn’t matter if you don’t know your Greek myths, as this film is very well written, filmed and edited.

Excellent ensemble cast also: Sidse Babett Knudsen (still amazing, but never as great as she was in 1864 or Borgen), Lambert Wilson, Riccardo Scamarcio, Olga Kurylenko (I loved her in The Ring Finger – and she had not aged one bit and still as luminous), Alex Lawther (you would have seen him in an unforgettable episode of Black Mirror, or more recently I caught him in Old Boy – great pairing with Pauline Etienne– another fave French actor of recent times), and Sara Giraudeau (love her in The Bureau).

Full of twists, turns, dead ends and doubling backs.

Catch this at #frenchfilmfestival #filmfestivaleveryday #filmoftheday