If boredom awaits you in these days of confinement, Le Figaro offers a selection of films released this week that marked the editorial staff. This special week highlights family and love with a touch of absurdity. It's good to start laughing again.
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Deux , a dramatic comedy by Filippo Managhetti, 1h35
Unvarnished, with unpretentious talent, Filippo Meneghetti looks at an idyll between retired lesbians. Madeleine and Nina have not given up desire. They dream of leaving to settle in Rome. In the meantime, they dance to an Italian song. Two is the story of a double life, a lie and the amazement caused by its revelation in the entourage. The director goes around all obstacles with confusing naturalness. Léa Drucker in the role of Madeleine's daughter is perfect of terror and tenderness. Barbara Sukowa has gained in gravity, with looks that speak volumes, anger mixed with distress. A first feature film that flows from the source.
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La Vérité , drama by Hirokazu Kore-eda, 1h47
For her first film shot in France, Kore-eda confronts Catherine Deneuve and Juliette Binoche, mother and daughter in conflict. Fabienne Dangerville (Catherine Deneuve), star with a brilliant career, publishes his Memoirs, under a simple and definitive title: La Vérité . This is an opportunity for her daughter Lumir (Juliette Binoche), who has lived away from her for a long time and pursues a screenwriting career in the United States, to come and visit her. Kore-eda arranges carefully manufactured elements. He has a job, but we stay in a psychological comedy with comfortable lightness.
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The Extraordinary Mr. Rogers , a biopic by Marielle Heller, 1h49
After The Counterfeiters of Manhattan , the director Marielle Heller continues to stage true stories by exploring that of the unexpected meeting between Fred Rogers and Lloyd. The first is an American TV man whose educational program Mister Rogers' Neighborhood was followed by millions of viewers between 1968 and 2001. While the second is a journalist for the magazine Esquire, portrait painter of talent but an aggressive hair. Respectively interpreted by Tom Hanks and Matthew Rhys, the two protagonists will oppose their vision of the world in a film intelligently staged. The soundtrack brings an extra touch of magic and marvelously accompanies the talent of the actors. Tom Hanks impressively draws attention and manages his character admirably well, both gentle and hypnotic. The extraordinary Mr. Rogers overflows with humanity, questions about the concepts of education, family and subtly deals with parenthood as a second youth, a new beginning. The feature film stands out as a perfect film to stay confined and take a deep breath. A great surprise.
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Selah and the Spades , a drama by Tayarisha Poe, 1h37
In Haldwell's private boarding school, five factions unofficially rule the lives of students. Selah Summers heads one of them, the Spades, which specializes in the distribution of drugs. In the final year, she seeks an heiress to her throne. His gaze then rests on the news, Paloma. For her first feature film, the young director Tayarisha Poe is interested in adolescent life under parental, educational, sexual and sentimental pressure with a staging close to Spike Lee on certain aspects. The music of Aska Matsumiya is aptly integrated to give body to these many contemplative scenes, a little treat for the eyes and ears. But it would be unfair to forget the two main actresses, Lovie Simone and Celeste O'Connor, absolutely dazzling in their interpretation when they get the message across with a glance, a movement. Rewarded at the Blackstar Film Festival and Palm Springs International Film Festival, Selah and the Spades is the ideal gateway to discover these great artists of tomorrow.
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En Avant , a fantastic film by Dan Scanlon, 1h40
Two elven brothers set off with lost hearts and souls in an extraordinary quest with a twofold objective: to try to revive for twenty-four hours a father they have almost never known, while looking for the remains of the magic of yesteryear in their world numbed by progress. Touching fable about siblings and the mourning of a loved one, En Avant is a modern fairy tale perfectly successful, despite a small intentional final frustration, which will make the viewer think long after the credits.
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The Photographer , a drama by Ritesh Batra, 1h50
Rafi makes a very bad living by taking photos of tourists in Bombay. In the evening, he finds a group of friends with whom he cohabits. At the age of 30, he lives like a teenage boy, single, carefree and melancholy: in fact, he bears the weight of a family debt that he has to repay. One day, he photographs a pretty lonely young girl who suddenly disappears without recovering her portrait. Unfortunately this remark, buried in silent and hesitant characters, disseminated in the group's rough movements, loses all vigor. The indecision of the scenario seems to win the staging, uncertain: too many approximations and languor make this Photographer very vague.
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The Willoughby Family , an animated film by Krys Pearn and Cory Evans, 1h32
One thing is certain, Netflix can do animation. After the fantastic Klaus , the digital platform hits hard with a film with crazy and energized energy. The animation, using both exquisite 3D and intelligently worked 2D, is always fluid, readable and above all, beautiful. Inspired by Lois Lowry's novel published in 2008 and entitled Les Willoughby: abominably written and ignominiously illustrated by the author, the scouring humor of the story and the narration effectively rhythms the story of these four children abandoned by their parents. If the theme of child abuse may seem heavy, The Willoughy family never falls into pathos. Finally, if the original version can count on a large cast with the delicious voice of Alessia Cara, Ricky Gervais, Martin Short or Terry Crews, Le Figaro recommends the exquisite French version with Damien Ferrette (French voice of DiCaprio), Kelly Marrot (Jennifer Lawrence), Christophe Lemoine (Sean Austin) and the great Thierry Desroses (Samuel L. Jackson).
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