One battle after the other, Mugana, middle class: new features in the cinema this week
What to see in theaters
The event
A battle after the other ★★★★★
By Paul Thomas Anderson
Essential
A former revolutionary goes back to combat when his Métis daughter is threatened by a furious racist soldier … The meeting at the Dicaprio / PTA summit leads to an euphoric action comedy, a shoot of adrenaline and great American cinema.
The new PTA is distantly inspired by Vineland by Thomas Pynchon who told the wood of a radical activist of the sixties in the return of a conservative stick in the 80s. But the filmmaker had the brilliant idea of transposing this intrigue into contemporary America. One way of saying that the Trumpian lead screed that is currently falling on the United States is the culmination of a long-standing counter-revolution, in reaction to sixty-eight activism. Fleeing, however, like the plague the political prechi-loan, PTA uses this scrambling of landmarks to invent a poetic vision of US history. And after a first act where he kneaded, with breathtaking fluidity and musicality, quantity of characters, places, information, the film begins to go for his arrival point, climbing his rhythm-cardboard on that of the character of DiCaprio (once again brilliant), former out-of-phase activist but ultimately too happy to resume arms to save his Métis (Chase Infinity) (Sean Penn). A film with a denial energy, which leaves its spectator a big smile on his lips.
Frédéric Foubert
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First a love
Mugarga- the one who treats ★★★ ☆☆
Of Marie- Hélène Roux
For her first long, Marie-Hélène Roux chose to seize the figure of Doctor Mukwege, Congolese doctor awarded the 2018 Nobel Prize for having treated thousands of women victims of genital mutilation in her country. Tripling rewarded in Angoulême, by the public, the student juries and professional via the interpretation prize, this film is based on the book written by Mukwege and its Belgian colleague Bernard Cadière. A shock film which seizes by the unbearable side of the tragedies experienced by his women without ever switching to complacency or sensationalism. Thanks to its conscious staging of the limits not to be crossed as the need to show to understand horror. But also in the way in which Isaach de Bankolé kissed this character without trying to heroize him. So as not to betray him.
Thierry Cheze
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Put your soul on your hand and walk ★★★ ☆☆
Of septusi
Put your soul on your hand and walk is not only the portrait of a young Palestinian. It is now the symbolic resurrection of an murdered woman. Fatem Hassona, 25 -year -old photojournalist survives in the Gaza Strip. Through the fragile screen of her phone, she confides in the filmmaker: hunger, fear, but also the shards of tiny joy, the humor which is outcropped despite everything. For an hour fifty, the spectator lives to the rhythm of this flow of confidences and these interrupted connections. His bright smile challenges erasure. However, Fatem no longer exists: she was killed in an Israeli strike even before this film reaches us. And this revelation completely upsets the reception of the documentary. Each image becomes imprint, each silence, echo. Faced with death, this documentary opposes luminous persistence. Fatem’s face, disappeared from the world but saved by the image, risks haunting us for a very long time.
Gaël Golhen
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Panopticon ★★★ ☆☆
By George Sikharulidze
18 years old. The age of all possibilities but also and especially in the case of the hero of this first long Georgian, that of all the impulses, even the most violent. An introverted teenager with whom the choice of his father to become an Orthodox monk gives birth to a host of doubts, starting with his extreme difficulty in reconciling his relationship to religion and his sexual desires. Directed with great mastery, Panopticon strikes above all by his ability to keep it without flying over anything, the multitude of subjects discussed in 1:30. Some should take the seed.
Thierry Cheze
Kontinental ’25 ★★★ ☆☆
Jude
Radu Jude lovers are with angels at the start of the school year. Because shortly before his highly anticipated Dracula (in theaters on October 15), tumbles into our rooms his previous film, awarded for his Berlinale script last February. This one takes us to Cluj, in Transylvania, where a bailiff must expel a homeless from the underground of a city center building which is about to become a luxury hotel without suspecting the tragic outcome of this mission at the bottom for a moment. And with its sharp sense of black humor capable of pushing the absurd cursors as much as possible starting from situations that could not be more realistic and concrete, Jude continues its dézinguction in rule of Romanian society as it perceives it from the inside. Gradually devoured by the ravages of a shameless ultra-capitalism and an increasingly uninhibited nationalism. Human comedy in all its splendor.
Thierry Cheze
At 2000 meters from Andriivka ★★★ ☆☆
From Mstyslav Chernov
After the striking 20 days in Marioupol, Oscar of the 2024 documentary, the Ukrainian Msytslav Chernov continues to document the Russian-Ukrainian war by diving into the heart of the Ukrainian resistance. With the relevant bias to focus on a unique place and unit: the 3rd assault brigade responsible for taking up a strategic village that has fallen into the hands of the enemy crossing 2 km of forest, where the danger is everywhere. Chernoy embraces the situation by three complementary angles. Images of his bodycam which immerses us without filter in the action. Drone plans to visualize the region’s devastation state. And poignant exchange scenes with these voluntary soldiers. At 2000 meters from Andriivka would have won to go after a certain radicality by doing without this omnipresent bo which prevents making the real character in its own full character in the film. But there remains a testimony of incredible power. And essential.
Thierry Cheze
Twst-Things We Said TODAY ★★★ ☆☆
From Andrej Ujic
Here, a documentary on the Beatles! This is original … Except that Things We Said Today, contrary to what his title (borrowed from a song of the Fab Four) suggests, is not really a documentary on the Beatles. It must be said that Andrei Ujica (the autobiography of Nicolae Ceaucescu) is not a documentary maker like the others. Here, he started images showing the arrival of the Beatles in New York on August 13, 1965 (on the occasion of their concert at the Shea Stadium) to then compose a collage, mixing vintage reports, old family films in 8mm and some images generated by IA, which gives the viewer the feeling of wandering in the big apple, for a weekend, in the footsteps of a few “characters” scribbled on the archives. The concept is tightrope walker, not easy to apprehend, but the film leaves an amazing feeling of ethereal space-time travel.
Frédéric Foubert
Disco Afrika: a Malagasy story ★★★ ☆☆
By Luck Razanajaona
“I now know that these are not stones that you shoot your strength but courageous souls who gave you their blood. We hear. “The stone” being the precious sapphire that young people try to extract to survive. The 20 -year -old hero arrived at the end of his quest for the missing father whose rebellious ghost continues to live in. The island of Madagascar which serves as a base for this drama in the form of an existential quest is the scene of a socio-cultural fragility forcing its youth to look into the violence in the eyes. Carried by a young charismatic actor, this moving story aims just.
Thomas Baurez
Titouan, the children of the coral ★★★ ☆☆
By Karim Mahjouba
In a big journey to the heart of the turquoise blue landscapes of French Polynesia, Karim Mahdjouba delivers an ecological, intimate and hopeful story. With an assumed desire to raise awareness of global warming, Titouan, the children of the coral draws up a magnificent portrait of a youth engaged in the protection of coral reifels. On an expedition on the island of Moorea, we discover the Coral Guardners: this group of surfers who left nothing and today at the initiative of a large -scale movement in terms of coral restoration. Thanks to scientific and technological advances intended to acquire the best cutting methods, this small collective quickly becomes an international reference which has many researchers from around the world among its ranks. Beside them and thanks to breathtaking underwater images, we discover over the water the multiple properties of these small marine organisms.
Marie Janeyriat
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First a moderately love
MIDDLE CLASS ★★ ☆ From
Of Antony Cordier
Two couples here are the war: arrogant owners vs. From the nice prolos to the service of the first to maintain their beautiful house. The distribution of roles should not have been difficult to define each of the performers playing their expected partition: the fakely rebellious wick and ultra-britical smile, go a self-sufficient interior woman vs. Camalaly in mode in which and Ramzy the air falsely bewildered to energize what should be. Antony Cordier first seems to play full on these two poles which, by dint of friction could find common ground, made of compromise … an average in short. And after a rather funny energetic implementation, Cordier seeks the breakdown at all costs. If he distills discomfort through domination (including sexual), he keeps rectifying the shot as if he had to take care to punish the supposed faults of each other. Until a well -balourd final that puts the ball in the center. AVERAGE.
Thomas Baurez
Rebellion ★★ ☆ From
By Pierre Schoeller
Passionate about art history, don’t get me wrong: Rembrandt’s link with the Dutch painter stops in the title. If the film indeed opens with the visit of the National Gallery in London, where the couple that Claire and Yves forms discover three canvases of the artist, the reason for their determining impact on the character embodied by Camille Cottin will never be clear. Following this meeting of the third type, Claire clarifies herself on herself. Her husband played by Roman Duris finds herself not recognizing her, in particular when she undertakes to reverse the industry to which they have devoted their professional life: nuclear. At the heart of this nebulous scenario is detected a message relating to the climate emergency, hampered by the unjustified mystery that surrounds the protagonist. Finally, the inability to decode your motivations arouses only one thing: frustration.
Lucie CHIQUE
First did not like
Tkt ★ ☆☆☆
Solange Cicurel
Emma, a teenager of harassment, is plunged into a coma. But her soul escapes and she becomes the ghostly spectator of her own drama. And will then try to understand how she got there. The device evokes Ghost, but transposed to Bullying. Sincere and undoubtedly useful, TKT unfortunately looks more like a prevention spot than a real film: linear narration, supported messages, clumsy dialogues. Relaxable, but not very interesting.
Gaël Golhen
And also
The million, from Grégoire Vigneron
Silent Shot, by Karim Mahjouba
The covers
The diabolical blade, from Kenji Misumi
When the wind blows, by Jimmy T. Murakami
