She finds Arieh Worthalter in the new film of the Promises director.

After Shadow mechanicswho plunged François Cluzet into a plot, and The promiseswhere Isabelle Huppert embodied a suburban mayor trying to save his city from dilapidation, Thomas Kruithof continues in the vein of his political cinema with his new feature film.

The embers brings together a pair of actors in gold: Virginie Efira, which we no longer present, and Arieh Worthalter, rewarded by the César for best actor in 2024 for The Goldman trial. They had already given themselves the replica in Nothing to losewhere they played a sister and a brother. This time they embody a couple put to the test by Efira’s social commitment.

Synopsis:

Karine and Jimmy form a united couple, always very in love after twenty years of common life and two children. She works in a factory; He, a truck driver, strives to grow his small business. When the movement of yellow vests arises, Karine is swept away by the force of the collective, anger, the hope of a change. But as their commitment grows, the couple’s balance wishes.

“”It is the biggest social protest movement in our recent history, which still strongly resonates seven years later, and which has not been treated at the cinema by fiction“Explains the director in the film’s press kit. Kruithof met yellow vests to tell the trajectory of a woman discovering activism from the inside, far from the media treatment that focused on violence and overflows.

The embers will be released in the cinema on November 5. Trailer: