Guillaume Mautalent

A pair of young siblings visit their grandparents in Normandy as WWII breaks out in Europe. (imdb)

In post-world war 2 France, the reconstruction effort leads to over exploitation of the working class. Labor unions demand better working conditions and decent salaries. During a demonstration in Brest, the police shoots at the crowd. Edouard Mazé is killed. A filmmaker, René Vautier, films the workers on strike, and Edouard's funeral. The film is shown to the workers across the region, accompanied by a poem by Paul Eluard, A Man Is Dead. (imdb)

Two cases and two timelines intertwine in this psychological thriller. Juan Carlos Medina reinvigorates the tropes of classic police films with atmospheric cinematography and breathtaking scenes of high-voltage tension. Enigmatic, striking, tragic: the opening scene of Six jours perfectly sets the tone of this compelling police thriller. It begins with a countdown: there are only six days left before the case of a girl’s kidnapping that ended in murder is definitively closed. When another chi