Re-Creation

In a fictitious trial, twelve members of a jury must decide whether British journalist Ian Bailey is or is not guilty of the murder of the young French filmmaker Sophie Toscan du Plantier, which really happened in 1996. The juror number 8 is the only one who refuses to immediately agree to a guilty verdict, clashing with juror number 3, who is more instinctive and anguished.

COMMENTARY
It is a re-interpretation of Sidney Lumet’s classic 12 Angry Men, but gloomier and more tense. What’s at stake here is not just the elusiveness of truth, but the way in which memory, prejudices, desire and peer pressure shape our perception of reality.

DIRECTOR'S STATEMENT
Re-creation is about justice shaped drop by drop by experience, sentiment and unconscious bias. This justice is different from courtroom justice. We invite you to reflect on how each of us fundamentally choose what to believe in. We were inspired by Sidney Lumet’s 12 Angry Men; the result is a jury room drama in a familiar format in the context of one of the most unsettling cases in recent Irish history. The film insistently raises questions: what shapes our sense of guilt and innocence? Certainly personal histories, traumas, prejudices. “The truth is rarely pure and never simple”, wrote Oscar Wilde.