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The Olympics of Jacques Audiard: extension of the domain of desire

2021-07-14T21:54:07.687Z


CRITICAL - Palme d'Or in 2015 with Dheepan, the director changes genre with this drama. Michel Houellebecq lived for a long time at the Olympiades, this corner of the 13th arrondissement of Paris made up of towers, bars and concrete slabs that are hardly postcard-like. The neighborhood must have changed a lot. Sexual misery is absent, desire runs everywhere. In Jacques Audiard's new feature film, he is the hub of the hearts and bodies of a youth drunk with love. The very one that was


Michel Houellebecq lived for a long time at the Olympiades, this corner of the 13th arrondissement of Paris made up of towers, bars and concrete slabs that are hardly postcard-like.

The neighborhood must have changed a lot.

Sexual misery is absent, desire runs everywhere.

In Jacques Audiard's new feature film, he is the hub of the hearts and bodies of a youth drunk with love.

The very one that was sacrificed by the health crisis.

We think of the vision of a film that only features characters from the 20-30 year old generation, with the exception of a grandmother with Alzheimer's disease in an nursing home.

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This is not the first break in Audiard's work.

A very discreet hero

or

The Brothers Sisters

, western in English with Joaquin Phoenix and John C. Reilly, already broke the series of black films in which he excels

(Watch the men fall, From beating my heart has stopped, On my lips , A Prophet, Rust and Bone,

Dheepan

).

But this time the

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Source: lefigaro

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