Synopsis
A Place to Fight For (Une zone à défendre, 2023) is a French romantic thriller by Romain Cogitore that you can watch online on iFILM. An undercover police lieutenant falls for the very activist he was sent to spy on.
Greg (François Civil) is ordered to infiltrate the ZAD — an eco-activist camp blocking the construction of a dam. Months among people defending a forest change him more than he will admit, and he grows close to Myriam (Lina Khoudri), where the feeling turns out to be real. The operation ends and Greg returns to his old life. A year later he learns that Myriam has had their child.
Cogitore works the seam between the political and the private: what is left of a man when the job demands betraying the people he came to love. Lina Khoudri anchors the film, her Myriam stubborn and fully alive. This is a quiet, honest drama about the cost of a double life, with no loud chases or gunfire. Stream A Place to Fight For (2023) online on iFILM.
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