Usually, presidents and jurors explain their choices in a few words when announcing their winners. Charlotte Gainsbourg has departed from this rule, neither giving the floor to the members of the jury that she chaired at the Deauville festival, whose voice and reasons of the […]
Delicious *** Eric Besnard French film, 1 h 52 What fly has stung Pierre Manceron, the cook of the Duke of Chamfort? At the end of the XVIIIe century, master chefs had to conform to the wishes of their lord and master, never deviating from […]
One More Jump *** By Emanuele Gerosa Documentary, 1 h 22 A dozen young men run headlong into the mazes of Khan Yunis, in the south of the Gaza Strip. Their somersaults, rolls, wheels seem to pull them skyward. They weave their way through the […]
The night of kings ** by Philippe Lacôte Franco-Ivorian film, 1 h 33 La Maca, the Abidjan remand and correction center is one of the most overcrowded prisons in West Africa. Established in the middle of the forest, it is a universe in its own […]
The cross : A national tribute will be paid Thursday to Jean-Paul Belmondo. How did he embody French cinema? Jean Ollé-Laprune : It is complicated. We can see from the tributes paid to him that his disappearance mixes two subjects. The first is purely cinematographic […]
The mask in Venice is now de rigueur every day. This constraint, respected with unsightly and very ordinary ornaments, trivializes the local tradition. Fortunately, the Serenissima regains its luster thanks to the 78e Mostra. The great masters follow one another. Pedro Almodovar opened the ball […]
Whether the health crisis continues or finally eases, it is not too early, more than a year and a half after the outbreak of Covid-19 in our lives, to take stock of its consequences. In the cinema as elsewhere. In Deauville as elsewhere. Survivor in […]
Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings ** by Destin Daniel Cretton American Film, 2:12 a.m. Mulan, Raya and the last dragon and now Shang-Chi, the giant Disney, on which Marvel depends, has a series of productions inspired by Asian folklore and in particular […]
Dear friends ! ** by Andreï Konchalovsky Russian movie, 2 hours It is a mirror reflection of Paradise, his film released in 2017 which featured three characters carried away in the madness of Nazism. Willingly ambivalent heroes for whom Andrei Konchalovsky tracks down what can […]
To interpret Kamel, an inmate far from being a model, who repeats Waiting for Godot by Samuel Beckett under the guidance of an unemployed actor, Sofian Khammes shot for ten days in a real prison. Exceptional luck for an actor, but a nightmare for a […]
