It's not easy to navigate among the many films that are coming out this Wednesday in theaters.
We help you see a little more clearly with this selection which gives pride of place to French cinema, fiction, essay or doc.
There is something for every taste !
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"Les Appearances": sacred score!
Vienna, Austria today.
Eve and Henri Monlibert, Malo's parents, have been living there since Henri was appointed conductor of the Opera.
Eve, she heads the library of the French Institute.
So far, everything seems to be going for the best in the best of bourgeois worlds, but Eve has the feeling that her husband is hiding something from her.
While searching her computer, she discovers that he is cheating on her with their little boy's teacher.
Very freely adapted from a novel by the Swedish Karin Alvtegen, these “Appearances” are a perfectly oiled mechanism for exploring the depths of human relations through the prism of a tribe little known in the cinema: the famous expats.
The Karin Viard - Benjamin Biolay ticket was in this case the ideal configuration, especially since the scenario, by taking a darker turn halfway, invites the two actors to develop a second wind that accelerates the pace and adds to their performance.
Sacred partition!
EDITOR'S RATING: 4/5
“Les Apparences”,
a Franco-Belgian dramatic comedy by Marc Fitoussi, with Karin Viard, Benjamin Biolay, Pascale Arbillot, Laetitia Dosch, Lucas Englander… 1h48.
"Blackbird": ultimate family reunion
We knew the romantic Christmas comedy, here is the Christmas melody.
Signed Roger Michell (the director of "Love at first sight in Notting Hill"), "Blackbird" stages a family reunion in a very bourgeois house, with distribution of gifts, twists and revelations.
Except that there, the guests are not just waiting for Santa Claus: Lily and Paul, her beloved husband, reunited their daughters and their spouses, their grandson and their best friend for one last weekend before Lily, reached of an incurable disease which paralyzes her progressively, does not put an end to her days.
Tender, funny, very moving, the film sometimes becomes a little teary, but it is tears that do good because in this drama, everything is dignified and beautiful: the English countryside, the sublime villa and Susan Sarandon, divine dying in a dress evening.
EDITOR'S RATING: 3.5 / 5
"Blackbird",
British drama by Roger Michell, with Susan Sarandon, Kate Winslet, Mia Wasikowska… 1h37.
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"Ondine": a strange and beautiful fable
Berlin.
Town planning historian Ondine tries to keep her boyfriend ready to let her go for another.
When she returns from yet another presentation of the model of the city, he is gone.
An aquarium breaks, which throws her to the ground with Christoph.
Love at first sight is immediate.
Begins a loving passion nourished by the myth of Ondine, a young woman who must kill her partners before returning to the sea.
Christian Petzold, star of the new German cinema, frees himself - on the surface at least - from historical subjects (his obsession for the Second World War) to anchor himself in a contemporary Berlin.
To forget the dark hours?
Petzold has never been a filmmaker of the explanation, but the stake will be precisely to seek in the depths the soul of a city and, by extension, of a woman.
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One look, and the plot changes.
Like the sea, unpredictable, Ondine struggles with her feelings.
Like Andersen's little mermaid (who was inspired, precisely, by the myth of Ondine), she sows death.
It is both very beautiful - the scenes under the sea seem to come from a book by Jules Verne, with this monster catfish - and very strange.
EDITOR'S RATING: 3.5 / 5
“Ondine”,
German drama by Christian Petzold, with Paula Beer, Franz Rogowski, Maryam Zaree, Jacob Matschenz… 1h30.
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"Lux Æterna": shaken and stirring
Béatrice Dalle directs her first film about a witch who is going to be burned alive.
She hires Charlotte Gainsbourg.
But on the set, everything is bad: the cinematographer is opposed to his director, the producer is annoyed, extras rebel, Charlotte lives a personal drama ...
This is not a true story, but the screenplay for "Lux Æterna", the new film by Gaspar Noé, shown in a midnight screening last year at the Cannes Film Festival.
A curious object: initially commissioned advertising film, which has become a medium-length film distributed in the cinema.
This is an experimental production, with most of the scenes in "split screen" (the screen is divided into two or three at times, with different actions and dialogues), an atmosphere often bordering on hysteria, sometimes images. strobe ...
In short, it shakes hard.
Cinephiles and fans of the director of "Irréversible" will appreciate.
Because, beyond its words on witches, “Lux Æterna” constitutes a vibrant essay on cinema and the difficulties of making a film.
EDITOR'S RATING: 3.5 / 5
“Lux Aeterna”,
French experimental drama by Gaspar Noé, with Béatrice Dalle, Charlotte Gainsbourg… 51 minutes.
"Sing Me a Song": exotic
Peyangki is a teenager addicted to his smartphone and war video games, who falls in love with a young singer he met on the Internet.
Nothing unusual for a teenager today… Except that Peyangki lives and studies in a monastery in Bhutan.
In this small Buddhist kingdom, nestled in the east of the Himalayan range, television and the Internet have only been allowed for twenty years.
"Sing Me a Song" makes us discover a country often reduced to its index of "gross national happiness" (used by the government to measure the well-being of its population), but which is no exception to modernity.
While monks pray in the mountains, in town, young people meet in networked playrooms and girls want to go to Kuwait to earn money… A rather slow film, but edifying and with the images of a breathtaking beauty.
EDITOR'S RATING: 3/5
"Sing Me a Song",
French documentary by Thomas Balmès.
1h35.
