Arte broadcasts this Wednesday, January 18, 2023 at 8:55 p.m. the appearance, a film where Vincent Lindon plays a canonical investigator for the Vatican. But does this job really exist in Rome? Tele-Leisure make the point.
Wednesday January 18, 2023 at 8:55 p.m., Arte broadcasts The appearance by Xavier Giannoli, director who blackmailed Gérard Depardieu in his film when i was a singer. A film that tells the story of Jacques Mayano (Vincent Lindon, ex-companion of Sandrine Kiberlain and father of Suzanne Lindon), a major reporter for a French regional daily, who leaves a country in the Middle East where he was posted to return to the country. Still physically and psychologically marked by his last mission and the loss of a friend and colleague in the field, Jacques isolates himself at home when he receives a phone call from the Vatican. He was approached by André Vassilis (Joël Demarty, partner of Pierre Arditi in The Blood of the Vine), bishop in Rome, to conduct a canonical inquiry into Anna (Galatéa Bellugi, seen recently in the film by the Darrieux brothers, Tralala), an 18-year-old woman who lives in the south of France and claims to have seen the Virgin.
A story inspired by a press article
Before making Lost IllusionsXavier Giannoli therefore focuses on a spiritual and particularly original story. “I had long wanted to know where I was in relation to the religious question, to faith…”, specified the director at the release of the film. “I believe that this questioning runs through several of my films, starting with Originally where it was about promises and lies, about the highway that was going nowhere and that everyone wanted to believe. I needed to refocus on the most intimate part of these subjects and one day I read a press article on the mysterious ‘canonical investigations'”, he continued.
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A job that exists in reality or totally invented?
It is therefore from a press article which speaks of the commissions of inquiry in the Vatican that the director Xavier Giannoli has the idea of his film. He commented on his discovery as follows: “I knew that the Church sometimes convened commissions of inquiry into supposedly supernatural facts such as miraculous healings or apparitions”, explained the director always at the exit of the film. “These canonical commissions of inquiry are not necessarily made up of religious people. One can meet there doctors or historians to whom a bishop asks to gather testimonies and precise facts in order to be able to decide if it is a sham. … or not.” Thus, Xavier Giannoli writes the character of Vincent Lindon, a journalist who becomes an investigator for the Vatican, drawing inspiration from reality.
