What's new ? Balzac, very honored in this return by French cinema. On September 29, Marc Dugain offers a new adaptation of
Eugénie Grandet
, with a formidable Olivier Gourmet as a stingy and destructive father. On October 20, Xavier Giannoli drives home the point with
Lost Illusions
, a capital masterpiece and cornerstone of
La Comédie humaine
. It is with this abundant film that the director of
Origin
and
Apparition
is back in competition at the Mostra. He returns there after
Marguerite
in 2015 and confirms that the period film is not condemned to academicism or mothballs.
Here again, the costumes do not weigh tons and Balzac's novel, transposed by Giannoli, holds up a striking mirror in the present day.
The 1820s and 2020s, same struggle.
To read also Xavier Giannoli: "The cinema can prolong the Balzacian gesture without betraying it"
The die-hard Balzacians will regret that the first part of the novel is sacrificed.
Once again, poor David Séchard, the poet friend of Lucien de Rubempré with a pure heart, indebted by his father's printer,
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