This movie shows very well what (I imagine) it happens after an event like the one from November 2015 in Paris: life just cannot be the same. Survivors are haunted by what they have experienced and they feel deeply connected to the other people that survived - many of whom feel the urge to revisit the bistro where this took place and make sense of what happened. This experience is so profound, intimate and shifting for someone that this basically creates a new family, of survivors, at the expense of the existing relationships.

The main character finds herself trying to remember what happened, partly because she is being accused of blocking herself in a toilet in the moment of the attack and denying a hiding place for the others, partly because she cannot find shelter in her former relationships (friends, lover) all of which don't seem to understand why she cannot move on.

Among trauma, PTSD (portrayed in a very compelling way) and her struggle to piece things together, we also discover hope and human connection, and this is one of those movies where suspension of disbelief works. At some point I was actually surprised to recognize an actor from other movies, it just didn't occur to me that I was not watching a piece of real life. Leaving cheesiness aside, I highly recommend this one.

Or a tribute to the "before"and also the "after". This screenplay is brilliant, intelligent, the story of a young woman who survived after the killings in Paris of November 13th 2015. I am even surprised that it was not made before, since seven years now. Virginie Elfira is really a rising star for the French cinema. Her character survived the killings but can't remember what she actually did just before. Another survivor, whom she met on the memory settings of the events, accuses her to have run away in the women's room, to hide, whilst the other folks were slaughtered. So, our lead will try to excactly find out what happened. A typical French sensitive drama. I will remember this film, unlike the female character with her behavior before the killing. The only detail that bothered me is that it is again question of the migrant issue; a recurrent element in most of social French films. I am a bit tired about this. I understand that most directors want to speak about such a problem, but it annoys me. They absolutely want to be "fashion", see what I mean?

A study in trauma and trauma bonding. I did not expect to actually see the attack, it caught me off guard. Also, quite a fresh depiction of how trauma works and what it can do to people. How you can become single-minded in delving into all the details, trying to make some sense of the chaos and absurdity of what happened. How you can become completely detached from the people you were close to before, because they could never relate or understand. Or maybe because in your new view of the world they become expendable. They don't matter anymore. Which is tragic, but I have heard it happens.

It didn't stand out to me in the beginning but towards the middle it really came into its own with the rawness of the emotions. Also, It's good practice for French, you can follow French subtitles very easily with the dialogue here.

Virginie is beautiful and touching as always. This woman is gifted by God. Or whoever...

After Mia survives an attack in a restaurant where many other patrons perish, she is left unable to remember what happened. Her attempts to recall the event throughout the movie appear to change her life and pull her into a different direction. In typical fashion for many French movies, tedium ensues. If you have a good hour and 45 minutes to spare, it will engage you and possibly bore you at the same time. French filmmakers are good at that, not sure why.

When unknown gunmen enter a Parisian restaurant and start shooting people that were enjoying their evening soirée, innocent lives are lost and the lives of those who survived are altered forever. Winocur's film portrays an already mundane fact of life, of armed terrorism that has entered the main stream of our lives, threatening to become an expected normal daily reality everywhere.

The survivors of the attack are seeking closure by gathering to commiserate and memorialize. After the traumatic event, Mia (Virginie Efira) is desperately searching for the cook who held her hand while they were hiding together during the shooting.

The search bears fruit and she eventually succeeds.