To have
La Fine Fleur
, a comedy by Pierre Pinaud, 1h34.
Trouble is piling up above Eve Vernet (Catherine Frot), an eccentric horticulturalist who no longer has the means to think of herself as the Little Prince's rose.
This stubborn, brilliant rose grower was the biggest for a long time ... but her small farm is about to be bought by the Lamarzelle house, cunningly managed by the excellent Vincent Dedienne.
Catherine Frot excels as a haughty bourgeois with a big heart.
With conviction, and that touch of contained emotion that makes all the difference.
This graceful comedy and deeper than it seems offers the actress a golden role and the spectators a plunge into the mysteries of the hybridization of flowers.
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La Fine Fleur
: la vie en roses by Catherine Frot
Under Alice's Sky
, a drama by Chloé Mazlo, 1h30.
In Beirut, in the smoke of the cafes, Alice looks white as porcelain.
She falls in love with the country and Joseph, an astrophysicist in the moon who designs rockets for his little nation to join the star race.
One night, hooded militiamen knock on the door.
Clouds are gathering in Alice's sky.
The civil war (1975-1990) brought down the land of the Cedars.
We are witnessing less the war than the echo it produces in the life of this couple trapped by the confrontation.
Chloé Mazlo, a 37-year-old Frenchwoman of Lebanese origin, signs a daring, lively and colorful first film.
To read also:
Under the sky of Alice
: a modest war
Teddy
, a comedy by Ludovic and Zoran Boukherma, 1h28.
In
Teddy
, we find nights of a full moon and lycanthropy, but set in the Pyrénées-Orientales, with the accent of the Southwest and non-professional actors who are somewhat reminiscent of Bruno Dumont's cinema.
Professional actors, too, starting with the excellent Anthony Bajon (
La Prayer
) in the skin of Teddy, a little white boy with no diploma or future, a masseur in his spare time in a salon run by a healthy Noémie Lvovsky.
The great advantage of
Teddy
is that he borrows as much from American horror films as from social chronicles, even from regionalist feature films.
But, above all,
Teddy
is steeped in humor.
Read also: The Boukherma brothers, all canines outside!
You can see
Presidents
, a comedy by Anne Fontaine, 1h40.
Faced with the rise of the far right, Hollande (Grégory Gadebois) and Sarkozy (Jean Dujardin) decide to join forces to stand arm in arm in the next presidential election.
The two brush against each other, tame.
Lets' go.
They are brave, sympathetic, two thieves in the fair.
They agree on a slogan:
“Together”
.
Dujardin has the right humor and nervousness.
Gadebois has the required roundness.
All this entertaining, good-natured, quickly written, quickly turned.
There is a smell of sweet parody in this sweet recreation of Anne Fontaine, where the actors imitate their models without pressing.
To read also:
Presidents
, pleasant Campaign
Sisters
, a drama by Yamina Benguigui, 1h35.
There are three of them, as with Chekhov or with the Brontës.
Adjani is the eldest, Maïwenn the youngest.
In the middle, there is Rachida Brakni.
Between these Franco-Algerian women who grew up in Paris, there are sparks.
They go in search of their dying father.
It will not go without drama, especially since one of them is putting on a play about their history.
Actresses of rare accuracy, obvious sincerity and touching awkwardness signal a temperament.
An argument in a hospital elevator will remain in the anthologies.
To avoid
My Zoé
, a drama by Julie Delpy, 1 h42.
Actress and director Julie Delpy plays a divorced mother, geneticist, desperate for her daughter.
A melody that flirts with the fantastic, less exciting than its subject.
The trial of the herbalist
, a drama by Agnieszka Holland, 1h 58.
After The Shadow of Stalin, the Polish director traces the fate of Jan Mikolasek, a homosexual healer accused of charlatanism by the Nazis and the Communists.
Convoluted and repetitive.
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