Aline, Cry macho, A crazy life… The films to see or avoid this week at the cinema

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Aline

Valérie Lemercier may defend herself from having signed a parody of the life and career of Celine Dion, we laugh a lot at the vision of

, false biopic and true comedy, mixture of fascination and derision. We can care about the singer from Quebec and appreciate the performance of the actress-director. She finds here a subject to the excess of her talent. Lemercier reinterprets the highlights of Celine's rise, from her childhood to her lonely glory in a Las Vegas casino, a golden prison for an abandoned queen, doomed to a limo-work-sleep routine in a disenchanted show business industry. Aline Dieu was born in Quebec at the end of the 1960s. Fourteenth offspring of Sylvette and Anglomard, the girl plays the violin and pushes the song. Lemercier does not leave it to anyone else to interpret the future star at this age, thanks to a digital special that allowsto embed her face on a little girl's body. […]

is a trunk full of disguises, mainly furnished with princess dresses, but there is something monstrous about the carnival.

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Cry macho

It is not going strong. Mike Milo lost his job as a horse trainer. This former rodeo champion has his back in compote and he spends his days in his rocking chair silently contemplating the vestiges of his past glory displayed on the walls of his living room. The memories jump to her throat. Poor Mike. He doesn't talk much about it, but he lost his wife and son in an accident. He has come a long way. The tragedy plunged him into alcohol and drugs. His boss pulled him out of there. So when he asks him to go to Mexico to pick up his 13-year-old son Rafa, whom he abandoned a long time ago, he cannot refuse. Here he is, across the border, driving his Chevy like him. […] At 91,Clint Eastwood gets back in the saddle in a terribly moving melancholy ballad.

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A crazy life

After bipolarity in

, semantic dementia, a degenerative disease suffered by the director's mother, Raphaël Balboni, played in fiction by the excellent Jo Deseure.

Suzanne begins to behave wacky, makes incoherent remarks and ends up not recognizing those around her.

She becomes a burden for her son Alex and his partner, Noémie.

Their desire for a child is blunted.

The film alternates realistic descriptions and formalistic sequences, the costumes of the characters blending with the setting.

An uneven but interesting first feature film.

To avoid

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There are always minor films in the career of a great filmmaker.

, by Nanni Moretti, is one of them.

Twenty years after his palme d'or for

, the Italian filmmaker was yet back in competition at the Cannes Film Festival this year.

We understand why he left empty-handed.

In

, it all starts with a quiet night.

Three families live in a bourgeois Roman building.

On the ground floor we find Lucio (Riccardo Scamarcio), a young

married to Sara (Elena Lietti) and their 7-year-old granddaughter whom they occasionally entrust to their next-door neighbors, surrogate grandparents despite the “absences” of the grandpa cake.

One evening, an uncontrollable car appears, which hits a lady and ends its mad race in the frosted glass wall of Lucio's office.

Andrea, the unworthy son of an inflexible magistrate embodied by Nanni Moretti himself, lost control of his vehicle under the eyes of Monica (Alba Rohrwacher) who left to give birth alone in the maternity ward.

From this initial cymbal stroke results a series of unfortunate scores that the spectator will follow like a series of distinct serials.

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A good man

"Popularize" social issues with the cinema.

In

, Marie-Castille Mention-Schaar accurately showed the Islamist enrollment of a young French woman.

In

(why this title in English?), She stages a trans man (born in a woman's body).

Benjamin (Noémie Merlant with a beard and a doctored voice) and Aude (Soko) love each other and suffer from not being able to have children.

When Benjamin decides that he will wear it, his transidentity comes to light.

A message of tolerance weighed down by an overly demonstrative and consensual scenario.

Walking on water

The green documentary of the week is signed by actress Aïssa Maïga.

The inhabitants of a village in Niger walk for kilometers to draw water while waiting for the construction of a borehole.

The children are on their own, just like the spectators.