Leaving one day, final destination: Bloodlines, Marco, the enigma of a life: new features in the cinema this week
What to see in theaters
The event
Go on a day ★★★★ ☆
By Amélie Bonnin
Essential
From her short cesarized, Amélie Bonnin pulled a long chosen to open Cannes. A great enchanting and enchanted film on the province and on a woman who, at 40, confronts her past to reinvent herself. Juliette Armanet makes flamboyant beginnings there
Two years after her César du Court, Amélie Bonnin continues the adventure of Go on a day in long format by taking up the principle of songs which extend the dialogues as in We know the song, Interpreted here by the actors. But by interverting the sex of his two main characters. We follow here, a cook’s cook about to open his first gastro in Paris which returns to the village of his childhood following the infarction of his father, boss of a road restaurant and who will recrove Raphaël, his love of youth. By changing her format, Amélie Bonnin has lost nothing of the beauty of the gaze she looks at on the province, like the playlist stripped of all snobbery of her film, from Dalida to 2 Be 3 via Nougaro … But by reversing the characters, Amélie Bonnin, signs here a magnificent portrait of a woman who discovers the need to confront the non-saying of the past (love, family) reinvent. And she finds the right tone each time to orchestrate these face- bright, radiant or hurtful. While magnifying the light part of Bastien Bouillon and revealing the immense talent of actress by Juliette Armanet. A film happiness!
Thierry Cheze
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Final destination: Bloodlines ★★★ ☆☆
By Zach Lipovsky and Adam B. Stein
Fourteen years after a premature “death”, the most playful franchise in Hollywood resuscitates. Good news, Final destination: Bloodlines transcends its formula by renewing its mechanisms and fully embraces its recreational nature. It all starts … in the past. In the 60s, the day of the inauguration of a very modern tower, a young woman struck by a premonition will prevent the disaster. Flashforward. Years later, this woman’s daughter was in turn assaulted strange nightmares. Only his mother (recluse) can explain to him the meaning of these dreams and above all make him understand that there are now only two to be able to save the family … Lipovsky and Stein, director of the evil Freaks (2013), perfectly understood the essence of the saga: the best antagonist in the bottom is invisible. Each daily object becomes potentially deadly. But that would be nothing without an inventive staging, to the frank execution, and to the pure line, rid of the slightest irony. By playing finely between tension, dread primary degree and black humor, Bloodlines stands out as the great horror success of this early 2025.
Gaël Golhen
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Marco, the enigma of a lifetime ★★★ ☆☆
By Airor Arregi and Jon Guaranto
It is one of those stories that no screenwriter would have dared to invent. That of Enric Marco, a Catalan who, for years, was the very effective and very publicized president of the association of Spanish victims of the Holocaust before we discovered that he had invented everything and had never been deported. To tell it, Airor Arregi and Jon Guaranto hesitated for a long time on form. Documentary, Docu- Fiction… before leaning for fiction. Without doubt the best of choices because the most in line with this idea of a man who has continued to invent his story and their parties to never think their film as a suspense. It is immediately understood that Marco did not say the whole truth. And we saw this story in the total fascination to see how far it can go in lie, when he knows he is in the long term condemned to be unmasked. But still had to be an actor capable of endorsing Marco’s clothes, kissing all the paradoxes: Roublard, Charmeur, Charismatic … and what Eduard Fernandez does here is the prodigy
Thierry Cheze
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The Shameless ★★★ ☆☆
By Konstantin Bojanov
While Cannes 2025 begins, the films of its exceptional section Un Certain Regard 2024 (Flow,, Twenty gods…) Continue to arrive on our screens. Awarded via his interpreter Anasuya Sengupta, The Shameless is the new long of Konstantin Bojanov revealed by Provena road movie in the footsteps of a 17 -year -old Bulgarian Bulgarian. He sets out here on India for a new portrait of a woman on the run. A prostitute who, after having stabbed an abusive police officer, finds refuge in a community of sex workers where her meeting with a young girl threatened with being married by force will upset their two lives. In an atmosphere of thriller with a cord, Bojanov tells here women as objects of all mistreatment without pouring into miserability. Thanks to its setting in warm colors which contrasts intelligently with the freezing aspect of the violence suffered by these vibrant figures of resistant in search of emancipation. Whatever it costs them.
Thierry Cheze
Remember ★★★ ☆☆
By Sandrine Mercier and Juan Hidalgo
Anaïs is 17 years old and like so many young people of her age living in villages around France, this native of Nogaro in the Gers will have to leave everything – family, friends, fanfare … – to continue her studies elsewhere, for lack of possibility on site. By telling the last months before its flight, this documentary explores with an enveloping, fair and never cute look this famous diagonal of the void, so often caricatured. And dialogue in this nicely remotely with the Go on a day by Amélie Bonnin.
Thierry Cheze
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The domain ★★ ☆ From
By Giovanni Aloi
For several years, French cinema has expressed new territories by renewing its approach to gender cinema and filming often neglected places. The domain Fits in this line: in Saint-Nazaire, Damien is a mowed student who finds himself working for a shabby little mafia, before a drama ends their shenanigans. Inspired by a true story, the film is dreaming in Chabrolien heir, but there is neither the sharp look of the filmmaker, nor the unhealthy fascination that the news provides.
Nicolas Moreno
Transmitzvah ★★ ☆ From
By Daniel Burman
Mumy Singer, a famous trans singer, returns to her native Argentina, where, years earlier, she had refused to prepare her bar Mitzvah. Can she reconnect with her past and her Yiddish family by organizing a “transmitzvah”? Combining Almodovarian impulses (Movida period) and choral family story at the HBO, Daniel Burman (Elias’ son) Signs a dramia with a little forced fantasy, with too loose rhythm, but which asks interesting questions. A nice test of pop theology.
Frédéric Foubert
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Billion vanilli, from glory to nightmare ★ ☆☆☆
By Simon Verhoeven
At the end of the 80s, the hazardous encounter of two men in the streets of Munich provokes a chain reaction which will lead to the greatest musical scandal of the decade. By forming the Year Vanilli group, Fab Morvan and Rob Pilatus become the puppets of their producer Frank Farian and make the whole world dance Girl i’m gonna miss you Or Girl You Know It’s True Without ever singing a single note. A deception which after an exciting documentary by Luke Korem (available on Paramount +), therefore inspired Simon Verhoeven a biopic. Choice that he himself seems to regret bitterly, since he immediately transforms his actors into narrators in history testifying here and there facing the camera. A funny bias that gives the film an excessively dramatic tone, accentuated by gross performance. By approaching sensationalism, Verhoeven ends up losing sight of the essentials.
Lucie CHIQUE
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Domestic accident, Cayes Casas
The recovery
The black fortress, by Michael Mann
