Cédric Kahn (festival guest in 2018) revisits the controversial case of Pierre Goldman, a far-left Jewish activist who faced a life sentence for four armed robberies and the killing of two women pharmacists in 1969. In his 1975 appeal hearing, Goldman pleads not guilty to murder, plunging his own trial into chaos, risking a death sentence, and unbalancing his relationship with his attorney, the young Georges Kiejman (Arthur Harari). Arieh Worthalter is brilliant in his complex and intense portrait of Pierre Goldman in Kahn’s tense, claustrophobic, and thoroughly engrossing real-life courtroom drama.

Notes by Marie-Pierre Richard

Screening as part of the IFI French Film Festival, November 15 – 26.