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The Confessions

The Confessions (Le confessioni)

Movie · 2016 · 15 people

Roberto Andò directed the Italian-French thriller drama Le confessioni (The Confessions) and wrote the screenplay with Angelo Pasquini. In Turkey it is known as İtiraflar, and in France it was released as Les Confessions. It is a multilingual production with dialogue in French, Italian and other European languages. It gathers a rich international cast: Toni Servillo, Daniel Auteuil, Connie Nielsen, Pierfrancesco Favino, Marie-Josée Croze, Lambert Wilson and Moritz Bleibtreu are the main names.

The story is set at a G8 summit held in a luxury hotel on the German coast. The world's most powerful economists are there to take decisions that will deeply affect the global economy. IMF director Daniel Roché (Daniel Auteuil) has also invited a mysterious Italian monk, Roberto Salus (Toni Servillo). That night Roché secretly asks the monk to hear his confession, and the next morning he is found dead. What follows turns into an investigation into the truth behind his death. Connie Nielsen plays Claire Seth and Pierfrancesco Favino an Italian minister.

Johan Heldenbergh is also in the cast. Some sources date the film to 2015 and others to 2016.

DirectorRoberto Andò

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Moritz Bleibtreu Moritz Bleibtreu Film actor · 55 years old Johan Heldenbergh Johan Heldenbergh Actor · 59 years old Toni Servillo Daniel Auteuil Connie Nielsen Marie-Josée Croze Lisa Eichhorn Julian Ovenden Lambert Wilson Pierfrancesco Favino Richard Sammel Togo Igawa Stéphane Freiss Jeff Burrell John Keogh

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Cinephile Looks at script, editing and directing choices; keeps a distance from formula films.

Andò's set-up is attractive on paper: a sealed-off luxury hotel, economists about to decide the world's fate, and a monk placed in the middle of that room of power. A classic closed-setting thriller and a moral inquiry meet in the same structure. The idea of a confession also raises questions about who a secret belongs to and what silence costs. In my view the film's risk is that, while carrying all this symbolic weight, it neglects the thriller side: viewers who want a crime solved and those who want an allegory may not both be satisfied at the same point. The multilingual approach, though, is the right call, making the summit's international air believable.

History & Society Lens Asks about the period, the social background and what the work reflects.

The film turns the feeling that the decisions running the global economy are taken behind closed doors into an actual place: a luxury hotel on the coast, hosting a G8 summit. Having an outsider, a monk, enter this elite world, and with a request to hear a confession at that, is an elegant way to probe the distance between power and conscience. That the IMF director feels the need to unburden himself to a man of the cloth implies that the language of economics has no answer to moral questions. It is a film that tries to critique economics without becoming a political pamphlet; how far it actually deepens those ideas is for each viewer to weigh.

Action & Thriller Fan Puts pace, tension and set pieces first; little patience for slow drama.

It is billed as a thriller, but set your expectations right. A summit hotel, a mysterious death and the investigation that follows sound exciting, yet with a monk and a confessional secret at the centre, the pace leans on conversations rather than pursuits. Good if you want atmosphere and secrets. If you are after chases, shoot-outs or big set pieces, it may feel too calm.

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