Films
«Perfect Sense»: love at first sight in pandemic Manhattan
Between romance and apocalypse
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Author: Fanny Agostino
FANNY AGOSTINO
«Matthias and Maxime: the anti-Guillaume Canet friendship
Just one year after the Hollywood-style «My Life with John F. Donovan», the young prodigy of Quebec cinema returns to his roots with «Matthias et Maxime». The art of producing a work of fiction with his real-life gang of pals, while avoiding the trap of being too much of a goody-goody.
«Papicha»: substance stolen by form
Mounia Meddour's spirited, if somewhat clumsy, look at the invisible resistance in Algeria. In the 1990s, a group of female students refuse to submit to the rise of Islam, disrupting their daily lives by organizing a fashion show. A youthful film with qualities and flaws.
«Portrait de la jeune fille en feu»: Eurydice in abyss
Céline Sciamma's latest film, which won an award at Cannes for its screenplay, depicts the encounter and burgeoning passion between two 19th-century women. The director of Tomboy sets her story ablaze with an impressive, impressionistic plot about a painter who has to conceal from her model the fact that she has been commissioned to paint her portrait on canvas. An apt reflection on love and memory through the prism of the image.
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