God Save the Tuche, Presence, Maria: News at the cinema this week

God Save the Tuche, Presence, Maria: News at the cinema this week

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God Save the Tuche ★★ ☆ From

Of Jean- Paul Rouve

Essential

Jean-Paul Rouve replaces Olivier Baroux to the realization of this fifth installment. A more or less good gags factory, which shows the limits of the Tuche system.

After Monaco, the United States and the Élysée, the Tuche leave to explore the Perfide Albion where they will obviously have trouble doing local customs and the protocol when they meet King Charles III (Bernard Menez, not bad at all). Elephants in a porcelain store that sometimes lends to smile but exhaust in the long term. Jean-Paul Rouve, who takes charge for the first time the realization in place of Olivier Baroux, does not revolutionize anything in terms of staging but imposes a montage purged at all times dead: the factory in Vannes is in surregia And the cartoonian fiery of the characters, signature of the franchise, reaches its climax. The film gives the impression of not knowing what foot dancing on, and strangely makes Jeff humanity who compensated for his stupidity. Wouldn’t we just go around the saga?

François Léger

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The Pampa ★★★★ ☆

Of Antoine Chevrollier

Summer is approaching in the village of Longué. Jojo and Willy, two friends “with life at death”, prepare for the challenge supposed to define their future: win a motocross race for one and obtain the bac for the other. But a secret heavy with consequences will suddenly change them in adulthood. Greeted for his series OussekineAntoine Chevrollier strikes just as hard with his first long long which brews a multitude of social subjects (starting with the difficulty of assuming his homosexuality in rural areas) without ever stifling them. In small touches, his film depicts their teenage spleen: the cross court becomes the decor of a destructive taboo, the hospital in fallow that of an uncontrollable and heartbreaking laugh … its lively staging, always at most Close to its actors, lets the emotion burst over this story as eminently intimate as powerfully universal. And the sincerity of the subject owes a lot to his stunning performers, including Artus who, surprises in a role at counter-employment.

Elodie Bardinet

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The sea in the distance ★★★★ ☆

From Said Hamich Benlarbi

The sea in the distance Ten years of ten years, from Paris to Morocco, and is fresco on a large scale. At the turn of the 90s, Nour (Ayoub Gretaa, excellent), the union of the film, arrives in Marseille undocumented, before meeting a secretly gay cop (Grégoire Colin, absolutely fabulous in a breaked role) which goes Take it under its wing until the passage to the following century. The director’s admitted reference is Sentimental education of Flaubert and we actually find in The sea in the distance The same narrative magnitude to tell the disenchantment caused by the passing time.

Sylvestre Picard

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The trouble ★★★★ ☆

By Cédric Gerbehaye

From 2016 to 2022, the Belgian Cédric Gerbehaye went almost regularly to place his camera between the four walls of the Brussels prison in Forest, known as one of the hardest in the country. Six years until the announcement of its closure becomes effective. If he signs his first long documentary here, Gerbehaye has been traveling the world for years (and more precisely the conflicts that ravaged him in Africa and the Middle East) as a photographer. And this eye of photographer and his sense of frame make all the formal power of this pain – turned in a superb black and white but never for free aesthetic – in the service in this no less striking way to show – always at a good distance – this What does life live in prison. Whether detained or a member of the prison personnel. A film at the height of a man which avoids all the shortcuts and the Manichean facilities. A film of incredible humanity in a prompt universe to dehumanization.

Thierry Cheze

The Flats ★★★★ ☆

By Alessandra Celesia

“You don’t know the North? So you don’t know Ireland, ”said a character from My traitora novel by Sorj Chalandon which takes place in Belfast. And it is not Alessandra Celesia who will say the opposite. In The Flatsthe director returns to the North Irish capital, and sets her luggage in New Lodge, a district bringing together the largest community of Catholics in the area where Joe lives, an irreducible republican with ghosts pegged to the body. Helped by an effective film system, which recalls that of Olfa girlswhere fiction invites itself into reality with a cathartic purpose, man replayed the scenes of his childhood marked by the armed conflict which tore the country for four decades. He is accompanied in this memorial journey by his neighbors, at a daily basis punctuated by misery, structural violence, but also by solidarity, modestly revealed in the film, that only cripples can weave between them.

Léon Cattan

First a love

PRESENCE ★★★ ☆☆

By Steven Soderbergh

Soderbergh hadn’t had a visible film in French theaters since Paranoia In 2018… and the filmmaker returns in great shape with this personal rereading of the cinema of terror and haunted house, where an American family (two parents – played by Lucy Liu and Chris Sullivan – and their two teens) moved to a large house At the heart of a posh suburbs … before a mysterious invisible presence seems to observe the youngest. The originality of the formal device consists here of filming the action entirely from the point of view of this ghostly presence, so that the subjective camera becomes the embodiment of a spirit-mind which has its own temperament and creates a climate of Vive Tension which also stems from David Koepp’s scenario deploying a malicious labyrinth of contemporary insecurity. Beyond the aesthetic master stroke, Presence Tends a fascinating mirror to America of 2025.

Damien Leblanc

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September 5 ★★★ ☆☆

By Tim Fehlbaum

The hostage -taking and the execution of Israeli athletes by Palestinian terrorists, during the Munich Olympics in September 1972, were already abundantly covered by cinema. Tim Fehlbaum chooses to come back to the facts from a very specific point of view: that of the team of sports reporters of the ABC channel, who found himself covering the live tragedy simply because their editorial staff was A few steps from the Olympic village, which they could therefore rob their camera on the epicenter of events. Fehlbaum identifies on September 5, 1972 as the birth certificate of continuous info, the improvised opening of a Pandora box that will shape the sugar media space of images in which we live today. The result is a studious, applied, very pedago thriller, whose modesty is the main quality, and which modeled its rigor and its spirit of seriousness on the group of professionals in shirt arms which it depicts.

Frédéric Foubert

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My favorite cake ★★★ ☆☆

By Maryam Moghadam and Behtash Sanaeeha

In 2021, with Forgivenessthey signed a heartbreaking anthem to the female emancipation which earned them being assigned to justice in Iran. Struck by a ban on leaving the territory, Maryam Moghadam and Behtash Sanaeeha signed with their second long, a less openly political film because playing brilliantly to blur the tracks. My favorite cake has indeed the attires of a romantic comedy, a like little widespread in Iranian cinema, through a earthy character as desired: a septuagenarian who decides to wake up his love life by provoking a meeting a taxi driver. The film is happy, crunchy, touching before, by touches first invisible then more and more stuffy, My favorite cake will tell the daily oppression experienced by any woman in Iran, the pressure from the neighborhood as soon as she receives a single man at home. Until an unexpected conclusion but which symbolizes the unclassifiable side of a multi-prime film around the world.

Thierry Cheze

The fall of the sky ★★★ ☆☆

By Eryk Rocha and Gabriela Carneiro de Cunha

It starts with a fixed plan of almost 10 minutes. In the distance a lush jungle, in front of us a plain on which is distinguished a path taken by a crowd of people who seems to extract from a nature which no longer protects it. The Yanomani, an indigenous tribe of the Amazon located in the north of Brazil, is on a mission to make their voices heard. For them, each tree that the merchant society cuts inevitably brings them closer to a disappearance. “… And when there will be only one left to support the sky, it will collapse. »» warn the shamans. This documentary plays the immersion card. The inaugural plan served as a gateway, a way of getting to the right tempo – some will say idle – men and women who have a lot to teach us. Far from all exoticism for vegan urban people followers of Yoga Bikram, the film offers a fairly fascinating visceral and intellectual approach.

Thomas Baurez

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Paddington in Perou ★★ ☆ From

Douglas Wilson

Paddington and the Brown family go to Peru to visit the Aunt Lucy, who lives in the house of retired bear. Panic at the finish: Lucy is missing and Paddington and company will have to go looking for him aboard a rafiot led by a somewhat stamped captain, played by Antonio Banderas … He had to relocate the Paddington bear, and try to see what his proverbial is flourished British once has been propelled into an adventure film Indiana Jones While a large part of its charm is due to its London anchor, and to the folklore that accompanies it? The animation of the bear may always be in the hair, the story follows a formula of Amazonian comedy far too marked, without the maestria slapstick of the two previous parts. And the London post-scriptwhus fun confirms that this attempt to make the character get caught was really not a good idea.

Frédéric Foubert

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Maria ★ ☆☆☆

Of Pablo Larrain

Pablo Larrain has become the cantor of chic biopic (Neruda,, Jackie,, Spectr…) that he investigates registered trademark. Here only the first name of Callas, Maria, is enough to designate the subject. It all starts with the inevitable end, filmed the scene of theater located in a gigantic Parisian apartment. Larrain, by an advertising editing, continues the views of a Callas finally backed by a hotel of a Place Vendôme hotel waiting for the mark of a perfume to justify the pose. Angelina Jolie Perform nicely but sings in the void of a space without echoes. Diva speechless. Sad project.

Thomas Baurez

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