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Eddington ★★★★ ☆

From Ari Aster

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In the USA Cavids of 2020, Joaquin Phoenix and Pedro Pascal clash to become mayors of a small town in New Mexico … Between comedy, horror and western, Ari Aster tells a routing civilization in an exhausting and virtuoso film.

After the triumphs ofHeredity and Midsommar,, Eddington Confirm that with Ari Aster, horror is never far away. The nightmare, here is that of America in decay of May 2020, in the heart of the Cavid pandemic. The film takes place in a town of New Mexico, and plunges our heads first into an explosive shaker condensing the evils, faults and Maboule obsessions of the time. The entire most hysterized US population, politically annoyed, or just completely lost, is therefore there: conspiracy, illuminated gurus, landing influencers, anti-fas activists, delirious clodos … The film sets its step on that of a sheriff at the end of the roller, Joe Cross (Joaquin Phoenix), on the point of leaving in politico-psychotics. Quite tortuous in its implementation, carried by a very creaky humor which first seems to return back to back all parts of fractured America, Eddington Gradually dives into the dark night. And his story goes far beyond a simple game of massacre, testifies to a concern and a deep despair, expressed in an abrasive style, exhausting, clearly not made to please everyone, but absolutely unique in its kind.

Frédéric Foubert

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First like a lot

Didi ★★★★ ☆

From Sean Wang

Unusual summer 2024 phenomenon in the United States, we could detect in this first Sean Wang film a simple offspring of Mid90’s. Same desire for cinema initiated by Spike Jonze skateboard videos, the same story of a 13-year-old kid in the midst of a Californian suburbs, even a passion for the board: would Jonah Hill have found in Sean Wang a worthy successor? This is in any case what presage this nostalgic exploration of the ungrateful age which catapults us in the summer of 2008. That of the first embarrassing emotions of Chris, of a successful Ollie in the garage, of a sister who leaves at the university, of a bunch of older skateers, or a beautiful beating (and the black eye that goes with it). But Dìdi is less tribute to skate culture than a moving celebration of the maternal figure.

Lucie CHIQUE

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Super Happy Forever ★★★★ ☆

From Kohei Igarashi

Audacity, sensitivity and finesse are in control of this Japanese feature film divided into two parts, in two periods (2023 then 2018) connected by a simple sequence plan marking the passage of time. We follow, in a first movement, a thirties as absent from himself and what surrounds him in a small hotel on the coast where he came to spend a few days and which we will discover that he was the place of his meeting with the one who became his wife, deceased brutally in the preceding days. Before, in its second part, Super Happy Forever Go back in time and tell precisely the circumstances of this thunderbolt. Through this dialogue between past and present, between the time of absolute despair and that of all hopes born of the first paids of the shared heart, Kohei Igarashi signs a great and beautiful film on mourning, poignant and never tearful, in the steps and heads of a character rich in nuances. A pure gem.

Thierry Cheze

First a love

The girls desire ★★★ ☆☆

Of prïncia car

In 2018, Principa Car founded an alternative cinema school in Marseille with the ambition to integrate this art into the daily life of young people away from culture due to economic difficulties before creating its own troop where everyone plays and participates in the writing of different projects. And if she wrote the structure of her first long with the screenwriter Lena on Tuesday, she then improvised each scene with her actors, joined by a newcomer, the irresistible Lou Anna Hamon. We follow the return to the Marseille city of Carmen, the childhood friend of Omar, an airy center instructor, respected by all. An ex-prostitute who will shatter the small band (99% male) who surrounds her and especially their relationship hitherto rather primary to sex and love. Doped by the energy and the authenticity of its interpreters, the film amazes by its way of foiling absolutely all the clichés on men-women relationships among young people in these popular districts. New voices that make a lot of good

Thierry Cheze

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Segundo Premio ★★★ ☆☆

Of Isaki Lacuesta and Pol Rodriguez

“” It is not a film on Los Planetas. It is a film on the legend of los planetas “Indicates a box at the start of Secundo Primo. Los Planetas? A Granada rock group, very popular in Spain in the 90s … But if you didn’t know it (either), no matter. We had already had this feeling before Letoon Russian rockers unknown in our latitudes. Secundo Primo Captures “Les Planets” when they threaten to deviate from their axis: after the euphoria of the beginnings, the bass player leaves the group, the guitarist sinks into the dope and the recording of the third album is a ordeal. With sensitive and ethereal vignettes, which echoes the music of the group, the chronic film delicately this moment when we feel confusedly that his youth has just ended, but that it is still necessary to continue his rotation … No need to have lived in Spain in the 90s to understand that.

Frédéric Foubert

Moon ★★★ ☆☆

From Kurdwin Ayub

Arriving at the end of her career as Kickboxeuse Pro, Sarah, in lack of perspectives, Sarah applies to a personal coach position in Jordan, responsible by the man who recruits her to train her three sisters. Her friends are surprised by this perspective but she accepts without thinking what she probably sees as a new challenge. Before, once there, to go from surprise to surprise in what she discovers. Starting with these three girls who, from the first day, make him understand … that they have no desire to learn to box. And that she was in fact hired to monitor them, while some of them dream of fleeing the palace in the golden prison in where they live where a fourth sister lives cloistered in an inaccessible floor. Kurdish director living in Vienna, Kurdwin Ayub is remarkably orchestrating this shock of cultures without pouring into the caricature and signs a story of female emancipation under tension, which recalls the Mustang from Deniz Gamze Ergüven.

Thierry Cheze

KOUTE VWA ★★★ ☆☆

Of Maxime Jean-Baptiste

Kouté WVA presents itself as an experimental documentary whose “story” is based on a tragedy: the death of a young Guyanese stabbed during a party in the suburbs of Cayenne. Almost 15 years after the facts the wounds are always lively, especially for his best friend lost in his nightmares and his dreams while the mother of the deceased and her grandson, Melrick seized us, them, by their wisdom and their humanity. How to pacify Guyana, put an end to violence that is first social? The film poses all these questions without ever trying to enclose his story in a speech. Simple and powerful

Thomas Baurez

Germaine Acogny, the essence of dance ★★★ ☆☆

From Greta- Marie Becker

How to pay tribute to Germaine Acogny, a Franco-Senegalese choreographer and a major figure in African dance since the 1970s, other than filming its intensity? The one who is detected in her intonation, her build, her gestures, as well as in the firmness of her teaching, and who unfolds in a rich but always harmonious documentary. Because if it starts as an ambitious portrait of a woman, this film naturally evolves in a celebration of dance as a tool for decolonization of bodies.

Lucie CHIQUE

Oslo- Desir trilogy ★★★ ☆☆

By Dag Johan Haugerund

A chimney sweep, happy in his couple has, one day, an unexpected adventure with a customer. A moment that he lives neither as the expression of a latent homosexuality nor as an infidelity but as an enriching experience. So much so that he will entrust her to his boss (himself as a couple and the nights troubled by dreams in which he is a woman … that a certain David Bowie tries to seduce!) Then to his wife who does not live it, far from it, with the same detachment. Haugerund closes his trilogy here on the feeling of love in beauty thanks to what constitutes its DNA and the major quality. His art of dialogue, his ability to put words on the introspective journey of characters confronted with situations that question their certainties and upset the eyes of others on them without anything coming to make them deviate from their desire to accept – and to love each other – otherwise. A goldsmith’s work

Thierry Cheze

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Remember the last summer ★★ ☆ From

By Jennifer Kaytin Robinson

We had not necessarily anticipated the revival of Remember … Last summer, saga that we thought was buried after his heartbreaking third episode in 2006. But Sony did give the green light to the project imagined by Jennifer Kaytin Robinson. No need to maintain the suspense for a long time. This fourth part does not revolutionize the genre and even fully assumes a copy- paste with the intrigue of the original film. Five friends who, after involuntarily caused a fatal car accident, decide to conceal their involvement and conclude a pact to keep the secret. Until a year later, they discover that someone knows what they did and begins to take revenge. Assessment? From the effective pop corn cinema where knowledge of the springs requires, its 111 minutes necessarily pull online. Yet it Remember you… last summer 2025 manages from time to time to get out of the frame. And he owes it to his lack of spirit of seriousness. In humor tinged with self -mockery that Jennifer Kaytin Robinson has distilled in particular in his way of reintroducing one by one through the story several of the stars of the first opus, Freddie Prinze Jr. and Jennifer Love Hewitt in mind. All these little people don’t always play very well. But it is when the Remember you… last summer vintage 2025 assumes its revival side – and the cheesy side which goes with it – that it justifies its existence.

Thierry Cheze

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The Smurfs- The film ★★ ☆ From

From Chris Miller

The Grand Smurf band is back with this family animation comedy which follows the incredible adventures of this little blue people, after the mysterious disappearance of the village chief, orchestrated by the villains wizards, Razamel and Gargamel. If the director of Potted catChris Miller, seeks to reconnect with the origins of comics, he also wishes to bring his touch of modernity. Unfortunately, this reductive vision of the new generation – which accumulates references to new technologies – quickly changes in caricature. Even if this new adaptation offers the opportunity to appreciate the nostalgia that the sublime colors of the mushroom village provide and to enjoy a beautiful tribute to the history of animation. Without forgetting morality, which again delivers a nice conclusion – a little cheesy but always welcome – “Union is the Smurf”.

Marie Janeyriat

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