Arrival in France of the film “Sound of Freedom”
Arrival in France of the film “Sound of Freedom”France Evening - Nov 05, 2023
After a resounding success in the United States, the film Sound of Freedom, directed by Alejandro Monteverde, arrives on French screens. It will be released in theaters on November 15, five days before International Children's Rights Day, celebrated on November 20.
The most impatient can, however, purchase tickets for the public preview screening on November 7 at 20 p.m., at the UGC Normandie, avenue des Champs-Élysées. We have seen this film which has already caused a lot of ink to flow, not always in the direction desired by its authors.
“As co-writers of the film Sound of Freedom, it has been difficult to see partisan controversy distract us from the deeper intention of our work: to use the power of cinema to raise awareness about the reality of child trafficking,” laments Alejandro Monteverde (also director of the film) and Rod Barr in an article published on August 14, 2023 in The Hollywood Postpone.
“We were stunned to discover the controversy that surrounded the release of the film in the United States last July, such was the gap with the content of the film,” echoes the distributor, Saje Distribution.
A controversy that reached as far as France, since even before the release of the film in France, the media mentioned the "conspiracy theses" that they believe it relays.
It is not so. Sound of Freedom is above all a thrilling action film, inspired by the life of Tim Ballard, a former special agent of the Department of Homeland Security of the United States, assigned to the unit responsible for the fight against child crime on the Internet . After undercover missions to combat child sex tourism, Tim Ballard resigned in 2013 to create Operation Undergroung Railroad, a foundation whose purpose is to save child victims of networks reducing them to sexual slavery.
With Sound of Freedom, the viewer follows the hero, played by Jim Caviezel, in his work as a federal agent and then in perilous rescue operations that will take him to South America.
A captivating thriller inspired by true events.
