La Frappe: a strong film about incest (review)
Double awarded at the Angoulême festival for its direction and the interpretation of Diego Murgia, this first, largely autobiographical feature reveals a filmmaker to follow:…
Salvation: a relentless political fable (review)
In the South-East of Turkey, two neighboring communities are fighting over territory, to the point of genocidal madness. A film full of fantasy and westerns…
Three farewells: a beautiful melodrama (review)
Isabel Coixet adapts a novel by Michela Murgia where an announced death does not prevent a life drive. A film led by the great Alba…
What is the new Ridley Scott, The Dog Stars worth?
A pilot, his dog and a world emptied by a pandemic. Scott returns to SF in an intimate rather than spectacular mode. Sublime at times,…
Léa Seydoux, the beautiful and strange Unknown by Arthur Harari (review)
With this adaptation of the comic strip co-written with his brother, Arthur Harari creates a melancholy drama about a confusion of identity. As strange as…
A perfect world: beautiful “father-son” relationship at Clint Eastwood (review)
This evening Arte is rebroadcasting the great classic worn by Kevin Costner. Texas, 1963. The run of a dangerous repeat thief and his hostage, a…
Fjord, Oklahoma Honey, La Nirvana: what’s new at the cinema this week
What to see in theaters THE EVENTFJORD ★★★★☆ By Cristian Mungiu The essentials Already winner of a Palme d’Or in 2007, the Romanian Cristian Mungiu…
Oklahoma Honey: Pure cinematic pleasure (review)
McConaughey resurrected as Oklahoma beekeeper-musician; a southern tale that turns into a bloody thriller: Andrew Patterson creates a crazy object that can be listened to…
Suddenly, The End of Oak Street, Just for One Night: what’s new at the cinema this week
What to see in theaters THE EVENTSUDDENLY ★★★★☆ By Ryusuke Hamaguchi The essentials The Japanese filmmaker of Drive My Car installs Virginie Efira at the…
What is The End of Oak Street, the new David Robert Mitchell worth? (critical)
Under Spielbergian influence, the director of It Follows signs a dinosaur film which does not renew the genre and slips on the script side but…
Just for One Night: Irresistible Duo for a Wonky Film (review)
The alchemy between Monica Barbaro and Callum Turner constitutes the major asset of this dystopian romantic comedy not without charm but never lives up to…
Suddenly: invigorating and surprising (review)
The Japanese filmmaker of Drive My Car installs Virginie Efira at the head of a Parisian nursing home and signs an anti-capitalist pamphlet mixed with…