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Cannes Film Festival: our reviews of Don Juan, Jerry Lee Lewis, trouble in mind

2022-05-23T15:29:39.739Z


CRITICISM - Serge Bozon's film disappoints while Ethan Cohen's documentary is exciting. A Don Juan who does not really seduce Cannes Premiere. Will he say it? The Cannes press wants to know if Serge Bozon's Don Juan can be described as "feminist". The director of Tip Top nods. Would we dare to think with Molière that “fashionable vices pass for virtues” ? In this musical reinterpretation, the hero (Tahar Rahim) lives in Paris today, plays in the theater and loves his wife (Virginie


A

Don Juan

who does not really seduce

Cannes Premiere.

Will he say it?

The Cannes press wants to know if Serge Bozon's

Don Juan

can be described as "feminist".

The director of

Tip Top

nods.

Would we dare to think with Molière that

“fashionable vices pass for virtues”

?

In this musical reinterpretation, the hero (Tahar Rahim) lives in Paris today, plays in the theater and loves his wife (Virginie Efira) madly.

He is even enslaved to her.

The director revisits.

Turn upside down.

What remains of the metaphysical seducer?

Not much.

Don Juan, here, does not reason, does not think.

He waits, damaged by insomnia, for his inflexible Elvira.

And he sings.

Songs by composer Benjamin Esdraffo and lyricist Jacques Duvall.

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