'Le Faux Soir' Trailer Unveiled Ahead of TIFF Premiere — SkimNews
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- Le Faux Soir world premieres as a Special Presentation at TIFF this weekend before serving as the closing film at San Sebastian, with Deadline unveiling the trailer.
- Michaël R. Roskam directs the drama, set in Belgium in November 1943 and inspired by real events surrounding the newspaper Le Soir, which became Nazi propaganda after Germany's 1940 invasion and was nicknamed 'Le Soir Volé' (The Stolen Soir).
- The plot follows Resistance fighters printing a fake edition of Le Soir packed with articles mocking the occupier — pitched as the world's 'first media hack.'
- Arieh Worthalter leads the ensemble, joined by Mélanie Thierry, Karim Leklou, Mara Taquin, Bouli Lanners, Julien Frison, and François Damiens.
- The production is a Belgium-France co-production from Frakas Productions, Goodfellas/Rectangle Productions, and Roskam's Harbor Men Pictures, in association with Anonymous Federation and Rossel; Cinéart took Benelux rights while Goodfellas handles international sales.
- Roskam returns to feature filmmaking for the first time since 'Racer and the Bird,' which also bowed as a Toronto Special Presentation in 2017; in between he directed episodes of the Apple+ Golden Globe-nominated series 'Black Bird.'
Why it matters: Roskam lands two of the European festival circuit's most prestigious slots back-to-back — a TIFF Special Presentation followed by San Sebastian's closing film — giving international seller Goodfellas a compressed window to broker multi-territory distribution deals on a high-concept WWII resistance story.
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