Swann Arlaud credited as playing...
Maître Vincent Renzi
- Sandra Voyter: But I'm innocent. You know that, right?
- Maître Vincent Renzi: Yes.
- Sandra Voyter: I mean, really.
- Maître Vincent Renzi: Yes.
- Sandra Voyter: I don't know what you're thinking really.
- Maître Vincent Renzi: I think a lot of things I don't tell you. Otherwise, you'd fire me right now.
- Sandra Voyter: No, no, no, Vincent. In your head, you're thinking, aren't you, because sometimes, when you look at me, just like right now, I can feel that you are judging me. I don't know what you think.
- Maître Vincent Renzi: Sandra, I believe you. I'm not judging you.
- Sandra Voyter: That recording is not reality. It is a part of it, maybe. If you have an extreme moment in life, an emotional peak, and you focus on it, of course, it crushes everything. It may seem like irrefutable proof, but actually warps everything. It's not reality. It's our voices, that's true, but it's not who we are.
- Maître Vincent Renzi: I don't give a fuck about what is reality, okay? You... you need to start seeing yourself the way others are going to perceive you. A trial is not about 'the truth,' it's... it's about...
- Avocat général: Hearing the conversation now, with hindsight, would you call it seduction?
- Zoé Solidor: I felt, and she told me herself, that she didn't have much of a social life or many chances to talk to new people. I suppose you could call that a form of seduction.
- Avocat général: The court needs to know if you would call it that.
- Zoé Solidor: Seduction means several things.
- Avocat général: But the word seduction always implies some... seduction.
- Maître Vincent Renzi: The witness's answer is clear enough, as to what she means by seduction.
- Maître Vincent Renzi: So what your patients tell you is the truth? As a psychoanalyst, you never wondered whether Samuel Maleski might have needed to imagine an unbearable imbalance to prevent himself from writing?
- Psy Jammal: After a while, I can tell what's real and what isn't.
- Maître Vincent Renzi: Lucky you.
- Maître Vincent Renzi: Have you ever had a patient commit suicide, or attempt suicide?
- Psy Jammal: In French, 'committing suicide' means both trying and succeeding. It's the action.
- Maître Vincent Renzi: What do we hear in the March 4th fight? The energy, the willfulness... What is it? The energy of despair. The final push before giving up. In his final days, this man isn't facing a war in his marriage. He's facing his own failures. Sandra Voyter is only guilty of succeeding where her husband failed.
- Maître Vincent Renzi: In fact, this violent fight is... phantasmal. It exists only as fantasy. You float the idea, the prosecutor floats it, over or around the facts, making it omnipresent here in court, but... We risk turning this fantasy into a reality simply because there was indeed a fight the day before Mr. Maleski died. Don't substitute the day before for the next day. We can't fill the blanks with a supposition, simply because we have sounds for one and not the other.
- Maître Nour Boudaoud: A novel is not life! An author is not her characters.
- Avocat général: But an author can express herself through her characters. You flagged this passage. How can we not see a link?
- Maître Vincent Renzi: Is Stephen King a serial killer?
- Avocat général: Did his wife turn up dead in suspicious circumstances?
- Maître Vincent Renzi: Focus on the facts!
- Présidente du tribunal: Mr. Renzi, I strongly advise you to calm down. Prosecutor, I advise you to follow Mr. Renzi's advice. Focus on the facts.