The Banshees of Inisherin
- Must See
Drama by Martin McDonagh, 1h54
He said nothing.
He did not do anything.
But Colm can't take it anymore.
Padraic doesn't understand.
How can you draw a line under years of friendship?
Every day they went to the pub together.
All that is over.
This brutal episode takes place in 1923 on an island off the coast of Ireland.
Martin McDonagh films a fable à la Beckett.
The reasons for the estrangement remain buried.
A grandiose breath sweeps over this simple story.
Colin Farrell walks his frail figure in these landscapes beaten by the winds, wanders in the middle of these houses with thatched roofs.
He is fragile, helpless, his gaze lost.
His sudden despair is a bottomless pit.
Stubborn, intractable, Brendan Gleeson looks like a menhir.
It is closed like a fist.
Blood punctuates this slow descent to the sources of the unconscious.
The director reconstitutes the duo of
Good Kisses from Bruges
.
The tone, you guessed it, is quite different.
All this has no equivalent in contemporary cinema.
Do we dare to pronounce the word masterpiece?
We will dare.
IN
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Joyland
- What to see
Romantic drama by Saim Sadiq, 2h06
Joyland
features Haider, the youngest son of a family under the control of a widowed and authoritarian father.
Under the same roof live Haider and his wife, Mumtaz, as well as his brother and his sister-in-law, parents of a string of children.
Things change when Haider finally finds a job he doesn't brag about.
He is hired as a dancer in a cabaret whose stars are transgender artists.
The darkness of the picture painted by Saim Sadiq is enhanced with beautiful touches of color.
Joyland
is never miserable.
Yet most transgender people in Pakistan are relegated to the margins, often having to beg, dance at weddings or engage in prostitution.
Biba, played by the formidable Alina Khan, passionately embodies this contradiction.
ES
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By heart
- To see
Documentary by Benoît Jacquot, 1h16
Avignon Festival 2021, last rehearsals.
Isabelle Huppert and Fabrice Luchini allow themselves to be filmed by Benoît Jacquot.
The first dwells on the text of
La Cerisaie
which she plays in the Cour d'honneur in the production by Tiago Rodrigues.
It is a question of warding off the terror of the text which engenders stage fright.
The second gives a reading of Nietzsche and Baudelaire.
He works on diction, seeks rhythm, digresses by invoking Jouvet and Bouquet.
Two methods, two actors at work, struggling with words, for an exciting masterclass.
ES
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Caravaggio
- What to see
Biopic by Michele Placido, 1h58
Rather than pouring into the banal cloak and dagger film, with fights between swordsmen and libertine episodes of rigor, Michele Placido has worked to make the mystical and skinned side of Caravaggio, star painter of his time with the whims and the audacity that entails.
In the light of its candles, the palaces feast and the churches have silent majesties.
To embody the painter, Riccardo Scamarcio was inspired by the possible self-portraits present in the paintings.
In the role of friend and main support, the Marquise Costanza Colonna, Isabelle Huppert alternates between humanistic intelligence and sensual temptations.
We come out with the impression of having watched the daily life of an old master, a kind of
rock star
of his time.
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Live
- To see
Drama by Salmaan Peerzada, 1h42
A gentleman, austere, wearing a striped suit, a bowler hat screwed on his head, a leather briefcase in one hand and a black umbrella in the other, waits each morning for the train that will take him to his place of work.
Dignity pegged to the body, the carriage of his head impeccable, Bill Nighy perfectly embodies this silent, disciplined and rigid bureaucrat, who seems crushed by his own conformity.
When this straight-faced character learns that he is suffering from terminal cancer, he suddenly realizes that he has been the silent passenger of his own existence.
In the wake of the great melodramas of Douglas Sirk, the overwhelming intimate chronicle of Oliver Hermanus is displayed as a stripped down, poignant film, all in unsaid, and from which the spectator emerges with a lump in his throat.
OD
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The Passenger
- We can see
Drama by Héloïse Pelloquet, 1 h 33
Chiara lives from fishing with her husband Antoine on an island off the Atlantic coast.
Twenty years of happiness and routine.
One day Maxence arrives, a new apprentice (Félix Lefebvre, discovered in
Summer 85
by François Ozon).
A bourgeois who plays the oboe, full of charm and assurance.
By dint of lifting boxes of cake together, Chiara has a crush on the young man.
Cécile de France is very convincing, as always.
Emma Bovary, she has changed a lot.
ES
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Unicorn Wars
- We can see
Animated film by Alberto Vazquez, 1h32
A nation of Care Bears has been recruited by a military junta.
She now dedicates a cruel war to the unicorns, happy at the bottom of their wood, Vietnam style.
It smacks of a strong homage to
Full Metal Jacket
and A Clockwork
Orange
.
Presented this summer at the Annecy festival, the whole coin more slaps and viscera than love hugs.
The hyperviolent fable preaches pacifism with a punch.
CS
Hinterland
- We can see
Thriller by Stefan Ruzowitzky, 1:38
In 1920, Austria woke up with great difficulty from the collapse of the Austro-Hungarian Empire.
A soldier returned from captivity investigates the murder of several veterans.
A historical thriller that plays with the codes of fantasy film.
Impressive.
OD
