To have
A story of love and desire
, Leyla Bouzid, 1h42
Noticed at the last Cannes Film Festival,
A Story of Love and Desire
caused a sensation at the Angoulême Francophone Film Festival.
The jury chaired by Nicole Garcia awarded him the prizes for best film (Valois de diamant) and best actor on Sunday.
Deserved and welcome rewards to highlight the second feature film by Tunisian Leyla Bouzid.
A story of love and desire
- very nice title - takes many clichés backwards. It features Ahmed, 18, French of Algerian origin. A guy from the suburbs who discovers the benches of the university, and not just any, the Sorbonne. The young man, literate and shy, meets Farah, a young Tunisian recently arrived in Paris. She dreams of freedom, bohemianism and love. Ahmed searches on Google how to show the capital to the beautiful foreigner. She drinks wine, he drinks Coke. He has never set foot in Algeria and does not speak a word of Arabic, she writes it perfectly. She lives in a maid's room, he lives with his parents, between a depressed father since he left Algeria during the dark years, a former journalist reduced to unemployment, and a sacrificial mother. His sister, Delilah,has a relationship with a boy. The city talks and the big brother is summoned to call it to order. His reputation is at stake. Ahmed struggles to play this role of macho guy assigned to him. He is called a “Parisian”. He is in love and prevented, torn between a virile puritanism and an irrepressible desire.
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A triumph
, a comedy by Emmanuel Courcol, 1h46
Olivier Nakache and Éric Toledano must ruminate. How did they not hear about this true story that no screenwriter would have dared to imagine? It's a safe bet that the authors of
Intouchables
would have bought the rights in the second. Emmanuel Courcol, he discovered the story of Jan Jönson a few years ago via a documentary that his producer, Marc Bordure showed him - in the meantime, Robert Guédiguian and Dany Boon have put marbles in the project, it is to say if it fascinates everyone. In the mid-1980s, Jönson staged
Samuel Beckett's
Waiting for Godot
with inmates in a Swedish prison. Said like that, not enough to climb the curtain but the pitch holds many emotions and surprises.
Kad Merad does not quite have the profile of a Swede but he is perfect in the costume of Jönson, renamed Étienne, a “basic” actor, not seen on TV.
He dreams of playing Chekhov but gives in to food.
Disguised as All Black, he makes managers do hakas (
"Be even more warriors, think of the competition"
).
A friend gives him a theater workshop in prison.
He finds himself face to face with guys massacring the fables of La Fontaine (Luchini can sleep peacefully).
Étienne has a revelation.
He is going to stage
Waiting for Godot
, which he himself interpreted twenty-five years earlier.
S.S.
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Dear friends!
, a historical drama by Andrey Konchalovsky, 2h00
The film is in black and white.
At that time, the USSR was gray.
Khrushchev was in power.
In 1962, revolt rumbles at the Novocherkassk railway plant.
The rise in prices becomes unbearable.
The meat is still fine, but the milk is too much.
A siren sounds and the unthinkable happens: the workers go on strike.
This scandal will have tragic consequences.
Even the general, although not known for his leniency, seems overwhelmed.
Liouda plunges into the event. This woman with an intense character is not just anyone: she supplies herself with tobacco and has a scheme to obtain stockings. She lives in a small apartment with her father, who is losing his temper and is donning his old military uniform, and her 18-year-old daughter, Svetka, who has strong ideas for her age and who does not have time to mend her clothes. socks with holes (the detail will be important). The generational conflict disrupts the meal. The plates are waltzing. On the living room wall hangs a portrait of Stalin. Liouda worships him, regrets his reign. The Party, she believes in it hard as iron. These Cossacks are unreliable. During a meeting, she proposes that the insurgents be punished with capital punishment. When the situation escalates, the army shoots at the crowd, his world crumbles.His ideals are cracking. There have been deaths. Young Svetka has disappeared. Is she one of the victims?
IN.
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A woman's perfume
,
In the name of the Italian people
and
L'Homme à Ferrari
, by Dino Risi
A retrospective at La Cinémathèque française will be devoted to the Italian director, who died in 2008, and three of his films will make their big comeback in theaters (La Cinémathèque française, Paris XII; Le Champo - Espace Jacques Tati, Paris V; Le Luxy, Ivry- on the Seine).
Renowned for his keen eye on human nature, Dino Risi would undoubtedly take with humor - and humor - this sudden devotion to his art.
But it would be unfair to give in to the coquetry of this lover of Italian quirks.
Less known than
In the name of the Italian people
or
Un parfum de femme
,
L'Homme à Ferrari
features Francesco Vincenzini, a business leader with a well-established life, honorable and respected father of a family, whose certainties waver the day of the birth of his grandson.
At 45, this dynamic, slightly dandy man feels he is aging.
He then begins an affair with a young friend of his son, Carolina, which brings him back to his almost past youth.
Squeaky, burlesque, if not absurd, this caricature of the cowardly old handsome is the opportunity to discover an Italy in full effervescence, bathed in post-war consumerism.
LF
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Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings
, Fate Daniel Cretton fantasy action film, 2:12
After
Black Panther
, who drew his inspiration from “blaxploitation” films, the new Marvel superhero comes from Asia.
A young Chinese man has fled his father (Tony Leung), boss of the criminal organization the Ten Rings.
Caught up in his past, he will have to face his destiny and assume his heritage.
Young Destiny Daniel Cretton (
The Glass Castle
) stages this “
origin story
” as if
Tiger and Dragon were
meeting the
Avengers
.
New blood in the Marvel Universe.
OD
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