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Edouard Bergeon brings peasant drama to the screen
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«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.
«Camille», documentary on the Central African Republic and photojournalism
Les mercredis du cinéma - Jonas Follonier Camille est une jeune photo-reporter française. Elle a décidé de partir en Centrafrique...
«Alice and the Mayor: stimulating without being breathtaking
Alice is a young woman fresh out of her philosophy studies. Coming from a brilliant background, she dreams of a successful career. However, when she moves to Lyon for a professional opportunity and is told that her job has been abolished, the opposite happens. She is then assigned to one of those perfectly useless functions: giving ideas to the mayor, who no longer possesses a single one after thirty years in politics. Only superficially useless: Alice will stimulate the mayor's mind. But beyond what's necessary for Lyon's political equilibrium.
«Thalasso», Houellebecq and Depardieu's therapy
In this new comedy from Guillaume Nicloux, Gérard Depadieu and Michel Houllebecq (the real deal) meet in a thalassotherapy establishment. Philosophizing endlessly about trivial matters, they try to cope with their cure as best they can, while taking potshots at today's society. A film somewhere between a schoolboy documentary and an exercise in style.
«Deux moi», two lonely souls in the city of Paris
Les mercredis du cinéma - Lauriane Pipoz In Paris, Rémy and Mélanie are neighbors. But that doesn't mean they...
A defeated family party
In Cédric Kahn's new film, currently in theaters, Catherine Deneuve plays a grandmother who wants to celebrate her birthday surrounded by all her nearest and dearest. But that's without counting on the fact that family is hell, as someone else might have said.
«Le Daim»: a bad, unidentified cinematic object
Jean Dujardin shows off in his monologues, which he takes to be the nec plus ultra of film acting. He's talented and excellent in most of his roles. Here, he's just uninteresting and tiresome.
How about a flight to Ibiza?
Un générique délicieusement dégueulasse, en grosses lettres jaunes et grasses, faussement too much. Une transition entre le générique ensoleillé et la ville sous la pluie, d'un sec. Des dialogues eux aussi légers, mais dont nul ne me dira qu'ils ne sont pas drôles: «Bonne journée! – Oui oui, j'ai failli vomir» (quand Philippe sort de la voiture conduite par son épouse). Ou, encore mieux: «Attention les enfants, le soleil est méchant ici» (quand ils arrivent à Ibiza).
«Roxane», a film more promising than successful
Les mercredis du cinéma - Jonas Follonier Guillaume de Tonquédec and his chickens: that's how you might sum up the cinematic experience...
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