The Accusation

The Accusation (2021)

Les Choses humaines

The Farels are a power couple: Jean is a prominent French pundit and his wife Claire an essayist known for her radical feminism. Together they have a model son, Alexandre, who is a student at a prestigious American university. During a brief visit to Paris, Alexandre meets Mila, the daughter of his mother’s new partner, and invites her to a party. The next day, Mila files a complaint against Alexandre for rape, destroying family harmony and setting in motion an inextricable media-judicial machine that posits opposing truths.

Date of release
2021-12-01
TMDB
7.1 / 10 (194)
Runtime
2h 18m
Genres
Drama
Director
Yvan Attal

Casting

Interesting facts

  • Based on: Les Choses humaines

The Accusation is a 2021 French courtroom drama film directed by Yvan Attal. The screenplay, written by Attal and Yaël Langmann, is an adaptation of the 2019 novel Les Choses humaines by Karine Tuil. It had its world premiere on 9 September 2021 at the 78th Venice International Film Festival, and was released in France by Gaumont on 1 December 2021.

Production

The screenplay is inspired by the novel Les Choses humaines by Karine Tuil, published in the summer of 2019, which notably won the Prix Interallié and the Prix Goncourt des Lycéens. Karine Tuil herself was inspired by a news story that occurred on the Stanford University campus (the 2015 rape case of Stanford student Brock Turner) to write the novel.

Yvan Attal directs his partner Charlotte Gainsbourg in the film as well as their son, Ben Attal — both of whom already starred in his previous film, My Dog Stupid, released in 2019.

Principal photography began in August 2020. Filming especially took place in the courthouse of Créteil (Val-de-Marne). Filming took place in Paris until 7 November 2020.

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