Chile 1976** by Manuela Martelli Chilean film, 1 h 35 1976 was one of the darkest and cruelest years of General Pinochet’s dictatorship. Three years after the coup that put an end to the socialist experiment of President Salvador Allende, repression is ferocious against dissidents […]
Since this morning, Sunday March 19 and for three days, going to the cinema will only cost €5 in all theaters in France and regardless of the cinema. The traditional Printemps du Cinéma, organized each year by the National Federation of French Cinemas (FNCF), the […]
♦ All the beauty and the bloodshed *** by Laura Poitras American documentary, 1:57 Golden Lion in Venice, this admirably constructed documentary combines artist Nan Goldin’s fight against the Sackler family, responsible for the opiate crisis in the United States, with the sensitive portrait of […]
The Lion and the Three Brigands ** by Rasmus A. Sivertsen Norwegian animated film, 1 h 19, from 5 years old Thieves and dirty, these three robbers are not very clever. Distant cousins of the Daltons, Jasper, Casper and Jonathan are much less mean and […]
Emily** by Frances O’Connor British film, 2:10 From the author of Stormwind Heights, not much is known. Except that her life was brief – she died at the age of 30 of tuberculosis – and that she hardly left the vicarage of Haworth in Yorkshire […]
Wise man ** by Jennifer Devoldere French film, 1 h 40 With the strength of desire, Leopold had drawn his future: a fine career as a doctor to save lives, like that of his mother, who died of cancer when he was 8 years old, […]
What secrets conceal the handkerchiefs forgotten under the seats of the dark rooms? While finishing the housework, a cinema usher stops, pensive, in front of a few crumpled balls of cellulose, receptacles for the tears shed in the shade of the big screen. Before this […]
All the beauty and the bloodshed *** by Laura Poitras American documentary, 1:57 It was almost inevitable that these two would cross paths one day. One, Laura Poitras, is a committed American director who, for several years, has been pursuing critical work on post-September 11 […]
The Chamber of Wonders ** by Lisa Azuelos French film, 1 h 37 It is undoubtedly the most serious of Lisa Azuelos’ films. Apart from her Dalida biopic, the filmmaker has accustomed us to a sparkling, slightly overplayed fantasy. In this new film, she doesn’t […]
Houria ** by Mounia Meddour Franco-Algerian film, 1 h 38 papicha, public and critical success of 2019, had propelled the director Mounia Meddour and her young actress Lyna Khoudri to the front of the stage. The film, noticed at the Cannes Film Festival, then won […]
