This week, still a varied choice in the dark rooms, with a very good French comedy benefiting from the presence of Catherine Deneuve, a new version of Snow White from South Korea, or a strange drama filmed in Mexico.
WE LOVE
"Terrible Jungle"
Eliott, a naive young researcher (Vincent Dedienne) despised by his mother, a famous anthropologist (Catherine Deneuve), goes to the Amazon to study the little-known tribe of the Otopis. But while he discovers Indian gold diggers who play video games and inhale a curious substance all day long, his mother sets out to find him, helped by a megalomaniacal and sluggish commander of the gendarmerie. “Terrible Jungle” offers a hilarious journey to absurd lands, reminiscent of the corrosive humor of “Monty Python” or the insolence of “OSS 117”. Vincent Dedienne and Jonathan Cohen are irresistible assholes, Catherine Deneuve imperial as a cold and castrating mother, and Alice Belaïdi very funny as the chief of this drug addict tribe, the verb rough under her bimbo look. A delight!
EDITOR'S RATING: 4.5 / 5
“Terrible Jungle” , French comedy by Hugo Benamozig and David Caviglioli, with Vincent Dedienne, Catherine Deneuve, Jonathan Cohen, Alice Belaïdi (1h31).
WE LOVE A LOT
"Snow White, the Red Shoes and the Seven Dwarfs"
It's a modern and funny version of the Grimm brothers' tale, with a very nice message. "Snow White, the Red Shoes and the Seven Dwarfs" features a Strong Snow White in every sense of the word (overweight, muscular and courageous) who, by mistake, puts on her stepmother's red shoes and becomes thin and lovely . The girl then meets seven pretty boys transformed into green and chubby dwarfs after a bad spell. The love between Snow White and Merlin, the nicest of these dwarves, will it be possible as each appears to the other with a deceptive physique? Despite some somewhat garish fight scenes, this lively animated film questions the power of appearances and entertains us with its quirky humor (the mother-in-law is called a "shabby old asparagus" and the siren Ariel must "shave her hair. legs ”).
EDITOR'S RATING: 3.5 / 5
“Snow White, Red Shoes and the Seven Dwarfs” , South Korean animated film by Hong Sung-Ho, with the voices of Melha Bedia, Clément Moreau (1h32). From 6 years old.
"Tijuana Bible"
Nick, an ex-US soldier turned drug addict, has found refuge in Zona Norte, a seedy neighborhood in Tijuana, a Mexican border town where US tourists come for cheap alcohol, drugs and sex. He crosses paths with Ana, a Mexican in search of her brother, who has disappeared… Although it has a only Mexican and American cast, and takes place in Tijuana and its surroundings, this film is beautiful. and indeed a French production. We owe it to Jean-Charles Hue, a rare film director on the big screen, who notably signed two shocking films, “La BM du Seigneur” in 2011, and “Eat your dead” in 2014. Two feature films that took place in the world of Travelers. This time, the director puts his camera in Mexico, among the lost and forgotten. Paul Anderson, one of the main actors of the "Peaky Blinders" series, plays here with astonishing realism the main character, Nick, junkie to the core.
EDITOR'S RATING: 3.5 / 5
“Tijuana Bible” , French drama by Jean-Charles Hue, with Paul Anderson, Adriana Paz, Noé Hernandez (1h32).
WE ALSO LIKE
"Dreams"
Emma lives happily with her father and her guinea pig, Coco, in a large house in the countryside. Things take a turn for the worse when his father's girlfriend, Helena, shows up with her daughter, Jenny, a plague who looks down on her new roommate. One night, Emma inadvertently “crosses” her dream, and discovers the secrets of their making… “Dreams”, served by careful animation and pretty light effects, has serious assets to seduce young audiences. Through Emma's daily struggle to be accepted by the very popular Jenny, Kim Hagen Jensen's film tackles very pragmatic themes, such as the grip of social networks on teenagers, and hides nothing of the nastiness that can show the children among themselves, while developing a very strong imaginary of dreams.
EDITOR'S RATING: 3/5
“Dreams” , Danish animated film by Kim Hagen Jensen (1h21). From 6 years old.
"The Climb"
On vacation in the Alps, Mike and Kyle decide to cycle up the Col de Vence. But during this climb, as Kyle is looking forward to his upcoming marriage, Mike confesses that he slept with the fiancée. First quarreled, the two ex-best friends will soon be forced by circumstances to meet again. Later, while Kyle aspires to found a "normal" home, Mike, depressed, regularly comes to wreak havoc in his life ...
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"The Climb" tells the ups and downs of a manly friendship thwarted - often by women -, through sketches in bittersweet tone. These talkative and ironic sequences stretch like climbs strewn with hills, descents and switchbacks. The film sometimes loses us a little on the way, but touches us by the tenderness with which it tells the story of a chaotic and unwavering friendship.
EDITOR'S RATING: 3/5
“The Climb” , American dramatic comedy by Michael Angelo Covino, with Michael Angelo Covino, Kyle Marvin, Judith Godrèche (1h38).
"The Vigil"
Yakov is a young New Yorker who has just left his family and loved ones, ultra-Orthodox Jews. Confused in a modern world of which he does not have all the codes, short of money, he accepts a well-paid job: to watch alone all night the body of a deceased. A priori easy task, except that more and more strange and disturbing phenomena begin to occur… The prospect of a fantastic story based on Jewish mythology, rarely shown in the cinema, had something to make us salivate. “The Vigil”, presented at the last Gérardmer fantastic film festival, starts off on a very good basis, making us discover the small world of ultra-Orthodox Jews. Paradoxically, it is when the film begins to enter the supernatural that it loses its momentum. It lets go all the same towards the end, allowing to properly complete a story that would have deserved to be a little more investigated.
EDITOR'S RATING: 3/5
“The Vigil” , American fantasy film by Keith Thomas, with Dave Davis, Menashe Lustig, Malky Goldman (1h30). Forbidden to children under 12.
