Cabourg 2025- 2nd day: Manon Clavel, In low fire, the duo Ella Rumpf- Monia Chokri
Every day, return to the highlights of the 49th edition of the Romantic Film Festival.
The film of the day: Kika of Alex Poukine
It is the film on the most singular and unexpected mourning seen for a long time. The story of a Belgian social worker struck by the sudden death of the man for whom she had a love at first sight and left the father of her daughter. And who, now alone, pregnant with him, without financial stability or housing, will find himself, by a competition of circumstances to … learn the profession of dominatrix. And make a living as sex worker! Coming from the documentary, Alexe Poukine avoids here all miserabilism as any “exotic” representation of the world BDSM over this reconstruction really not like the others who also required an interpreter like no other to marry this rollerblading emotional coaster without ever falling from the merry -go -round. Discovery here is 6 in The truth From Hirokazu Kore-Eda, Manon Clavel is of this caliber. For her first big role on the big screen, her virtuosity and her natural mixed force force admiration and make her the true co-creator of this eminently complex and incredibly endearing female character. The art of opposites in all its splendor
Release on November 12
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MI8B_QB8MKO
The director of the day: Sarah Friedland for Overwhelmed
Sarah (Kathleen Chalfant, exceptional) is 85 years old. And this afternoon there, this elegant woman was even more preceded than usual for what seems to be an appointment with a man younger than her. A lunch before going together on vacation. Except that this man is not a potential lover but his son, whom she suffers from an Alzheimer’s and that the surprise destination is that of the medical house where Sarah will spend the rest of these days. The magnificent and confusing first 15 minutes of this first long gives the tone of what will follow, where director Sarah Friedland finds the tone just, never leading or cute, by distilling here and there irresistible humor, to talk about this dirty illness. Sleek film both in its dialogues and in the situations that are deployed there, Overwhelmed You squeeze your heart without manipulating yourself, marrying the dignity of her heroine fighting to the end to enhance the little memory he has left.
In theaters on August 13, 2026
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hmvqmcvubfw
The actresses of the day: Ella Rumpf and Monia Chokri in Evidence of love
Both triumphed during the César 2024 ceremony. The first in female revelation for its performance in Marguerite’s theorem. The second in better foreign film with Simple like Sylvain who had notably triumphed overOppenheimer. And Alice Drouard had the great idea of bringing them together as headliners of her first long excavation. They embody Céline and Nadia, a feminine couple who awaits the birth of their first child that Nadia Porte, respectively. This first long long leads us into the intimacy of these two women and their daily life upset by this upcoming birth and the questions she poses to Céline in search of legitimacy and a place, while she must embark on the bureaucratic meanders of an adoption request (notably requiring to bring together fifteen letters from her relatives attesting that she wishes this new one and will be able to take care of it) who will only reinforce them. In this film there is a perfect balance between the concrete and the feeling of things, necessarily different for two women with antipodes. But we are here at the antipodes of the film on top of the screen the files of the screen. And in addition to the quality of Alice Drouard’s writing, we owe it a lot to the complicity but even more to the incarnation of their characters by Ella Rumpf and Monia Chokri. There is in their gestures of tenderness as in their moments of a natural beak which gives flesh and soul to the subject. An energy, a generosity that makes moments more rough or even poignant without ever forcing the line. We like to see them on the screen and we have no desire to leave them. Irresistible from start to finish.
In theaters on November 19
