On a vu Commis d'office

The culmination of a four-part residency spanning a year for the Le pieds dans le plat company, which is presenting the verdict of Commis d’office until Sunday at the Pari. The encounter in a prison visiting room between a young lawyer who has never pleaded before a criminal court and a veteran of the justice system accused of murder. In a bold production, Pitto Campa brings the visiting room to life with a stage space reduced to the size of the visiting room. Even the fourth wall, the one virtually between the audience and the two actors, contributes to perfecting the confinement by taking the form of a veil through which we witness, as if from behind a one-way mirror, the face-to-face in a highly cinematic format. A true closed-door encounter between Bastien Sallabery and Roland Abbadie, between the lawyer at the beginning of his career and his client burdened by a criminal record that is becoming difficult to drag around, from which we escape thanks to video sequences shot by Stéphane Dufau and projected on the fourth wall. By playing with the transparency of the appearance tulle, the staging takes us from inside the visiting room to outside the prison for subjective camera sequences returning to the arrest or finally to witness the trial. An alternation of views and even a superimposition of the video and the scene to arrive at very beautiful images that truly carry the show and which make this court-appointed film so interesting.