To have
- Lil Buck Real Swan , documentary by Louis Wallecan, 1h25
Louis Wallecan, the director of this documentary, devoted several years of his life to following Lil Buck, to understand what the boy is on the mind. Dance is a way to translate what is in your head: dreams, annoyances, anger, hopes that will probably never come true. Lil Buck dances his own. With more determination than the others. He also wanted to discover other dances and see what the world of ballet could bring to the jookin. Director Louis Wallecan makes the big difference between the evenings in the Memphis area and those of the dance elite where Lil Buck amazes. The camera does not invent a fairyland. Memphis has its cruelties. Wallecan follows the talent of a boy who opens up a sacred trajectory but nevertheless remains on the tarmac.
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- The rebels of the year 2000, thriller by Narciso Ibanez Serrador (1977)
Lovely vacation. A couple of English tourists land on a Spanish island where the adults have disappeared. What did the children do to them? This hard to find classic has a strong sulphurous scent. The sunny decor contrasts with the darkness of the subject. The heat accompanies a violence that ends up saying its name. Filmed with sandpaper, nerdy B-series actors (a pregnant blonde and her mustached husband in elephant legs), hemoglobin in a ladle, the discomfort is at the rendezvous. There is something unhealthy between His Majesty of the Flies and The Village of the Damned . You are advised to cancel your stay in Almanzora.
You can see
- The Perfect Candidate , drama by Haifaa Al Mansour, 1h45
A single doctor in a small town in Saudi Arabia, Maryam (Mila Alzahrani) is creating a stir by running for municipal elections. "Coming from a background neither poor nor rich, it will take time to find her own path and identity, and to gain the respect of others", explains the filmmaker. After Wajda , who revealed it in 2013, then Mary Shelley in 2018, Haifaa Al Mansour wanted to offer a “very personal” film . If his native country has opened up - "the dress rules have become more flexible" - he is still subject to the patriarchy. Maryam hopes for a job as a surgeon in a large hospital, but to get on a plane she has to get permission from her father, who is on tour - he plays in a band.
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- The Crossing , drama by Bae Xue, 1h39
Peipei is a “dafeizi”. His mother lives in Shenzhen, the Chinese border port of Hong Kong, while his father lives in the former British colony. Every day, the high school student crosses the border to study in Hong Kong, where she finds her friend Jo, a rich kid, who dreams of only one thing: spending Christmas in Japan. To pay for his plane tickets, Peipei multiplies the expedients and odd jobs. Her luck changes when Jo's boyfriend offers her to participate in his smuggling cell phone smuggling between the two cities.
Presented at the Toronto Film Festival and the Berlinale in 2019, The Crossing brought together a million spectators in the Middle Kingdom; The film has a rapid pulse and refuses contemplation. Like his heroine and Hong Kong, bubbling with energy and restlessness. The intoxication of independence, the first shivers of desire, the illusion of finally being an adult give Peipei (spontaneous and naive Yao Huang), torn between two shores, the anchorage that she lacks.
A dichotomy magnified by the staging: the tranquility and wide shots of Shenzhen succeed the narrowness of the alleys and the verticality of Hong Kong's skyscrapers, drowned at night in its neon lights. Under the guise of an initiatory story and despite an end where morality is preserved, the director also captures the audacity and fury of living a generation at a crossroads, and already a vestige of the past. Customs having tightened their controls, traffic between the two cities has become scarce.
- Light of my Life , science fiction film by Casey Affleck, 1h59
With Light of My Life, Casey Affleck imagines a world where women have been wiped out by a mysterious virus. He plays a worried father protecting his pre-teen daughter, Rag (Anna Pniowsky), whose hair he cut to make her look like a boy. She miraculously survived, unlike her mother, Elisabeth Moss, who appears in fleeting flashbacks. Affleck stages an end of the world that drags on, an anti-spectacular dystopia, far from the canons of American blockbusters. This slowness does not exclude a hidden threat, on the contrary. In this world without women, there are almost only violent men with uninhibited misogyny. We think of The Road , Leave No Trace and Without a noise , but the film traces its own path and, while keeping a minimalist note, ends up tearing the heart out.
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- Yakari, the film , cartoon by Toby Genkel and Xavier Giacometti, 1h23
After the series, the little Indian imagined by Job and Derib goes from the comic book box to the cinema screen. More than a literal adaptation of an album, the film goes back to its origins, when, thanks to the pen of Grand Aigle, Yakari learns to talk to animals and to tame a wild mustang, Petit tonnerre. Beautiful like a new Sioux.
To avoid
- See the day , dramatic comedy by Marion Laine, 1h31
Sandrine Bonnaire looks exhausted. She works in the maternity ward. Heavy atmosphere and night guards. Actresses, including Aura Atika, do not demerit. But when the social film turns into an intimate drama, the pathos overdoses. Especially since the story, it remains skinny: fatigue at work, remorse about the past, the teenager who wants to take off ... Do you have a spa?
