Alice and the mayor: fabulous Luchini (critic)

Nicolas Parrisre orchestra a stimulating confrontation between Fabrice Luchini and Anaïs Demoustier.

Arte will offer a beautiful evening devoted to French cinema, this Wednesday evening, with this film released in 2019 in the cinema and acclaimed by critics: Alice and the Mayorfrom Nicolas Parris, carried by Fabrice Luchini and Anaïs Demoustier. Here is the criticism of First ::

The socialist mayor of Lyon is at the end of the roll (all resemblance to Gérard Collomb …), short of new ideas. To revive and stimulate his neurons, he decides to call on a young philosopher, foreign to political maneuvers and animated by his only progressive ideas. We have known since his first long, the excellent The big gamethat Nicolas Parris is passionate about public affairs, his mysteries, his personal and national issues. It is even one of the rare French filmmakers, with Pierre Schoeller, to venture on the slippery field of the political drama where everything advances with complex dialogues in official places, under the gold of the Republic. How to make it spectacular while preserving an authentic faith in what he wants to tell, namely to understand and decipher the gap that widens between elected officials and the people, between the technocratic approach and the expectations of simple voters? Parish opts for the cozy confrontation, behind closed doors, between an old political animal, still attractive, and a young idealist who wants to believe in the big evening of ideas. By skillfully playing on a possible attraction between the two characters, the filmmaker makes a romantic wind rush that humanizes them and makes their objectives more palpable, their disagreements more melodramatic. Faced with the vibrant Anaïs Demoustier, Fabrice Luchini plays his best role in Hermine.

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