A Self-Made Hero
Un héros très discret
Jacques Audiard
Paris during the troubled winter of 1944−1945. A man who wasn't in the war pretends that he was a hero by inventing himself the life of the perfect resistance fighter. He builds up a tissue of lies and fabrications, he creates an extraordinary character.
With : Mathieu Kassovitz, Anouk Grinberg, Sandrine Kiberlain, Albert Dupontel François Berléand, Philippe Harel, Bruno Putzulu, Jean-Louis Trintignant
Screenplay : Alain Le Henry, Jacques Audiard
Image : Jean-Marc Fabre
Sound : Jean-Pierre Duret
Editing : Juliette Welfling
Decors : Dominique Douret
Music : Alexandre Desplat
Screenplay : Alain Le Henry, Jacques Audiard
Image : Jean-Marc Fabre
Sound : Jean-Pierre Duret
Editing : Juliette Welfling
Decors : Dominique Douret
Music : Alexandre Desplat
Production : Patrick Godeau, Aliceleo, Lumière
Distribution: Aliceleo
Distribution: Aliceleo
Un héros très discret is a reflection on lies and what could be built on lies in a confused and bewildered post-war France. To deal with the surprising story, Jacques Audiard uses a construction where archive footage and current interviews of people who came across the supposed Resistance hero. "The story of an imposter, the evolution of a man who fought in lies only. It's best to get it over with: there is nothing glorious, nothing epic in there. But that is the major attraction of the subject: following the rise of an ordinary man in extraordinary times, showing how a little scam is a perfect sample of the confusion of the period" (Jean-Claude Loiseau).