Freaky Friday 2, Last stop: Yuma County, Evanouis: New in the cinema this week
What to see in theaters
The event
Freaky Friday: still in the shoes of my mother ★ ☆☆☆
From Nisha Ganatra
Essential
After the pleasure of finding Lindsay Lohan and Jamie Lee Curtis, this endless comedy is unable to renew itself compared to the 2003 film
22 years after Freaky Friday, here is Lindsay Lohan and Jamie Lee Curtis back as a girl and mother with the same idea of Body Swap Movie who made her success in theaters. Anna (Lohan) has in turn become a mother of a teenager, Harper, and is about to marry a widowed restaurateur who left London to settle in the United States with her daughter Lily. Except that Harper, the ultra-cool surfer and Lily, the very snobbish British at the forefront of fashion hate each other and see each other with a very bad eye this marriage. Until the day when the curse that had struck Anna and Tess hit them in turn. And here is Harper propelled in the skin of his mother Anna, Lily in that of Tess… and vice versa! With 110 minutes announced on the clock, we imagine a host of twists and turns and in a way of playing with this concept. Unfortunately it will be nothing. Freaky Friday 2 is satisfied with her first at her last minute to ride the wave of the first film, during situations that we all see coming in advance. In the name of the queen lightness, we intend to stay here in the register of first degree entertainment, without taking a risk, without making a wave, to the last straight line dripping with good feelings which arises from this bias. A disappointment.
Thierry Cheze
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First a love
Last stop: Yuma County ★★★ ☆☆
By Francis Galluppi
Since reservoir Dogs, the recipe has not changed for the young American independent filmmakers who want to be noticed: locking archetypes of the thriller in an enclosed place and putting the pressure, slowly but surely … Francis Galluppi tries his luck with this theatrical thriller in a dinner of Arizona, where a handful of characters look at herself in earthenware dogs: a vendor of a while From lovers to Badlands, a waitress in love with the sheriff, and two robberies on the run, whose booty will excite the lusts … The staging brilliantly plays the constraints of the closed-door while Jim “Thunder Road” Cummings, which plays the VRP in cutlery, makes its usual number, but always amusing, of an ideal son-in-tear in Suddenly sodium hystero. Is it a minor? Maybe, but delectable. If you are in a mood to swallow a little bleeding neo-black on the go, stop at Yuma County.
Frédéric Foubert
Evanouis ★★★ ☆☆
Of Zach Cregger
A small town in Florida where all children of the same class disappear at the same time, with the exception of a single little boy. For what ? How ? We owe this pitch that Stephen King would not have denied to Zach Cregger, propelled new terrible child of indie cinema with his first long solo, barbaric landed on Disney +. Evanouis turns out to be less openly brutal than his predecessor. Magnolia is therefore very thinking of a bias of a polyphonic story to the exploded structure where five characters – including the teacher that the Vox Populi seems to be responsible (Juli Garner, phenomenal) and the inconsolable father of a disappeared child (Josh Brolin, impeccable) – each deliver a piece of this large puzzle. Evanouis belongs to this category of films where the path to the outcome counts more than the resolution in itself. And we feast in front of the talent of Cregger to create tension by little things by a full and elegant staging, giving birth to a depressive, melancholic climate which allows the terror to strike even stronger when it arises. Too bad when the last straight line, that of the explanations is not up to the height of the above. That everything seems too immediately understandable and by ricochet too simplistic. But even in this deceptive phase, lightning lightnings manage not to spoil everything.
Thierry Cheze
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7 days ★★★ ☆☆
From Ali Samadi Ahadi
Co- written by Mohammad Rasoulof, this film once again testifies to the ability of Iranian filmmakers to multiply the angles to tell the oppression of women in their country. Ali Samadi Ahadi here features an activist imprisoned for years far from her husband and children who, after having obtained a permission of 7 days for medical reasons allowing her to find his own, finds himself facing a dilemma. Flee in Germany with them or stay to continue your fight. A remarkably orchestrated case of consciousness until his outcome.
Thierry Cheze
CONFIDANTE ★★★ ☆☆
By Cagla Zencirci and Guillaume Giovanetti
Six years after the remarkable Sibel, Cagla Zencirci and Guillaume Giovanetti signed a new portrait of a woman trying to keep her head out of the water in an overwhelming patriarchal society. Her name is Arzu and works as an operator in an Ankara erotic center-call, before her life switched an evening in 1999 when the city underwent a tremor of the earth. When, at the end of the line, a teenage client begs her to help and takes the risk of joining the Ankara prosecutor, the only one who can give the green light, whom she knows via a previous call participating in a fine part in a hotel. Thriller in closed doors and almost only based on telephone conversations, Confidante turns out to be formidable in her way of playing with tension during her 73 minutes rich in twists and turns perfectly orchestrated inside which her heroine makes a fate to the status of victim to which she seemed assigned. A tour de force.
Thierry Cheze
Some like it classic ★★★ ☆☆
Of Romain Juchereau
Heavenly beaches, vintage and waves planks as far as the eye can see, here is the recipe for this magnificent documentary which brings up to date the authenticity of the surf culture. Here no fashion effects, only one way to rediscover with simplicity the roots of a sport that has crossed generations. Completely shot in 16 mm and with a lot of humility, Romain Juchereau signs his second film on the subject. For the occasion, he has traveled the world to meet enthusiasts – craftsmen and professionals – who, each in their own way, left their mark in the history of this Sensations Sport. 7 years. It was the time that he spent bringing together testimonies, childhood memories and more technical anecdotes. From the Californian coast to Hawaii, via France and Mexico, the plans of sportsmen in action are sublime, with in the background, jazz music and some notes of nostalgia. Reaching the perfect balance between instructive narrative and breathtaking images, in just one hour, some like it classic is enough to make us travel.
Marie Janeyriat
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Badh ★★ ☆ From
By Guillaume de Fontenay
Marine Vacth traces a strange career. Born under the sign of author’s cinema, her filmo looks like a treasure hunt where she spends from Ozon to Bedos. Impossible to follow. New example with Badh, muscular thriller signed Guillaume de Fontenay. In this thriller inspired by Jason Bourne or Taken, the actress embodies a French agent dropped in Syria and responsible for eliminating Islamist terrorists (beautiful opening sequence). After this intro, the ex-soldier became a surf teacher, quickly forced to plunge back into his past when his companion cop is shot in the street. His revenge will be methodical. Surgical violence. VACTH imposes its presence without ever forcing the line, helped by the impactful but not showing staging. Dry action, millimeter choreographies, montage with a cord: here no frills, just know-how. Badh will not revolutionize anything, but Fontenay executes his specifications with welcome efficiency.
Pierre Lunn
Jahia’s summer ★★ ☆ From
By Olivier Meys
We discovered Olivier Meys in 2019 with bitter flowers, an overwhelming melo in the footsteps of a young Chinese mother who was in exempt in France in the hope of a better life and did everything so that her dreams are not smashed on the violence of reality. With the summer of Jahia, Meys is again interested in a uprooted female character whose horizon on French soil seems to say the least: Jahia who gives his title to the film. A 15 -year -old girl who fled the Sahel with her mother and living with her awaiting papers in a reception center where she will get to know and be friends with a teenager of her age, Belarusian, in the same situation as her. The beautiful idea of this film is to tell the daily life of Sans- papers by the prism of adolescence, its torments and the increased impatience that goes with this age. Jahia’s Summer is built as a shock of personalities between her two heroines – tremendously embodied by Noura Bance and Sofiia Malovatska – with opposite temperaments, the first being as reserved as the other goat. But if the story takes off as soon as they are together, it becomes a little too didactic again as soon as Jahia finds herself alone or with her mother. Hence the little disappointment compared to bitter flowers.
Thierry Cheze
Slow ★★ ☆ From
By Marija Kavtaradze
The major quality of this film by the Lithuanian Marija Kavtaradze is to tackle a subject very little treated cinema, asexuality, through a thunderbolt between an interpreter in sign languages and a dancer who therefore comes up against the inability of the first to experience the slightest sexual desire for anyone. Directed elegantly (with the key to the price in this category at the Festival de Sundance 2023), Slow unfortunately has difficulty going beyond the stage of good intentions for lack of a scenario which only makes it in the background the adventures common to any story of upset romance, without managing to find twists and turns specifically linked to the situation of this couple.
Thierry Cheze
And also
JijuTSU Kaisen: premature death treasure: The film, by Shouta Goshozono
There is no network, Edouard Pluvieux
The covers
Chronicle of the Broves years, Mohamed Lakhdar Hamina
Oslo, August 31, of Joachim Trier
Yi Yi, by Edward Yang
