2023-05-26 17:04:42
A look back at the favorites and claws of film journalists from Figarowho walked the Croisette for ten days.
From the American Wes Anderson to the British Ken Loach via the Frenchwoman Catherine Breillat… Here are the reviews of the 21 films in the running for the palme d’or at 76e Festival de Cannes.
On the way to the palm (grade: 4/4)
Towards a bright future by Nanni Moretti
The Italian filmmaker films a director who encounters many difficulties to shoot his new feature film. A very successful foray into his mental landscape without any vanity.
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Italian director Nanni Moretti presented his sixteenth feature film at Cannes, before a French release scheduled for June 28. SARAH MEYSSONNIER / REUTERS
The Zone of Interest the Jonathan Glazer
Jonathan Glazer adapts the novel by Martin Amis about the Nazi Rudolf Höss who had settled his family next to Auschwitz. A chilling film with a dizzying impact.
Read alsoOur review of The Zone of Interest: The Flowers of Evil
On the steps, director Jonathan Glazer, with actors Sandra Huller and Christian Friedel, producers Ewa Puszczynska and James Wilson. ERIC GAILLARD / REUTERS
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They can create surprise (grade: 3/4)
Firebrand by Karim Ainouz
In a striking historical fresco, Brazilian director Karim Aïnouz brings to life the personality of Catherine Parr, sixth wife of Henry VIII, King of England. Jude Law is unrecognizable as an angry ruler and Alicia Vikander reveals herself as an inscrutable ruler.
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Actor Jude Law, director Karim Ainouz and actress Alicia Vikander for the screening of Firebrand the 21st of PATRICIA DE MELO MOREIRA / AFP
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Club Zero de Jessica Hausner
Jessica Hausner stages a nutrition professor with extreme methods. A film of great precision that says a lot about our time.
Read alsoOur review of Club Zero: the idol of the fasts
Dried herbs by Nuri Bilge Ceylan
With a melancholic film, Nuri Bilge Ceylan evokes the fate, buried under the snow, of two teachers waiting for a bright spot in their lives.
Read alsoOur review of The Dry Herbs: The Lassitude of Hope
Dead leaves d’Aki Kaurismäki
Finnish filmmaker The man without a past (Grand Prix in 2002 at Cannes), master of melancholy, returns with his 19e film, a tragicomedy about the meeting between two loners, by chance, one night in Helsinki.
Read alsoOur review of the film The Fallen Leaves: Kaurismäki in pursuit of happiness
Anatomy of a fall de Justine Triet
French director Justine Triet still dissects life together after Victoria et Sibyl and delivers a trial film reminiscent of Bergman and Preminger. Masterful.
Read alsoOur review of Anatomy of a Fall: Autopsy of a Couple
Justine Triet is in the running for a second time for the Palme d’Or at Cannes this year. GONZALO FUENTES / REUTERS
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Asteroid City by Wes Anderson
With a host of stars, Wes Anderson reinvents a desert to deliver a retro-futuristic fantasy. A film similar to its previous ones, but better
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The return by Catherine Corsini
After having been the subject of a controversy before the festival, the director imposed herself from the first day with a film of flesh and nerves.
Read alsoOur criticism of the Return: Catherine Corsini takes Corsica by the root
The French director returned for the third time in competition. LOIC VENANCE / AFP
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Pick up by Marco Bellocchio
In the Italy of 1858, a Jewish child is taken from his parents by the Pope’s soldiers because he was baptized by his nurse. For this film in the form of an intimate fresco inspired by a news item, Marco Bellocchio puts the right dose of lyricism and moves forward with efficiency and refinement.
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Neither hot nor cold (rating: 2/4)
Olfa’s Daughters de Kaouther Ben Hania
The Tunisian director (The beast and the pack) entered the competition with this documentary, a film “on the edge of the testaccording to Thierry Frémaux, about a Tunisian woman faced with the disappearance of two of her four daughters.
La critique du Figaro: Documentary by Kaouther Ben Hania, 1 h 50.
Presented in competition, this Tunisian film looks back on the life of Olfa, a mother of four daughters, two of whom, radicalized, deserted the home to join Daesh in Libya, where they ended up incarcerated after an American attack. The film tackles painful themes: denial, fear and guilt. The director sets up an unusual device, calling on professional actresses. But by mixing fiction and documentary, the film loses in intensity and readability. Damage.
Released July 5.
Monster d’Hirokazu Kore-eda
Two children become entangled in lies in front of Kore-eda’s camera which multiplies the points of view. A Time.news with drawers may be a little too full.
Read alsoOur review of Monster, from Kore-eda: Forbidden Games
Black Flies by Jean-Stephane Sauvaire
In the New York emergency room, a young man takes his first steps with a seasoned teammate played by Sean Penn. Hell comes to the cinema.
Read alsoOur review of Black Flies, which shoots the ambulance a little too much
Youth de Wang Bing
The harsh Time.news of a hard-working generation sacrificed in the garment workshops, Youth (Spring)his documentary, is excessively long.
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The disappointments of the competition (note: 1/4)
May December by Todd Haynes
The director of CarolTodd Haynes, confronts Natalie Portman with Julianne Moore in a disturbing melodrama with strings that are a little too strong.
Read alsoOur May December review: Natalie Portman seeks the fallen star
Climbing the stairs May Decemberthe first collaboration between filmmaker Todd Haynes and actress Natalie Portman. NARDI HEALTH / REUTERS
Last summer by Catherine Breillat
For her fourteenth film, Catherine Breillat stages a lawyer who falls in love with her 17-year-old stepson. If Léa Drucker embodies this woman with the appropriate duplicity, the film does not have the scent of scandal of Devil in body or budding wheat.
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The Passion of Dodin Bouffant De Tran Anh Hung
This romance between a wise gourmet and his cook certainly offers appetizing recipes, but we remain unsatisfied.
Read alsoOur review of The Passion of Dodin Bouffant: a noise of pans
Perfect days the Wim Wenders
Wim Wenders returns to fiction with the story of a Tokyo toilet worker with melancholy inclinations. An anthology of haikus brushed too quickly.
Read alsoOur review of Perfect Days: The First Flush and Other Tiny Pleasures
Fifteen years later See you in Palermo, German filmmaker Wim Wenders returns to Cannes. CHRISTOPHE SIMON / AFP
Banel & Adams of Ramata-Toulaye Mother
Young Senegalese director, Ramata-Toulaye Sy made her debut with this first film, which tells a story of absolute love, confronted with social conventions, in a remote village in northern Senegal.
The Figaro Critique: Drama by Ramata-Toulaye Sy, 1:27 p.m.
“Not so bad for the first film of a 36-year-old director”, “Pretty well staged for an African film”… About Banel & Adams, we have already heard all sorts of platitudes on the Croisette, from the most conventional to the most condescending. The fable of Ramata-Toulaye Sy, in the running for the Palme d’Or, shows a pretty couple in a village in northern Senegal. Banel is a shepherd, Adama is independent (she has a slingshot). The weight of traditions will hinder their cloudless love. Sometimes bordering on perfume advertising (“Sand, for women”), a harmless little story.
Release date not communicated.
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The Chimera Alice Rohrwacher
The Italian, used to competition, returns with La Chimeraabout a young archaeologist mixed up with a group of grave robbers in 1980s Italy.
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The Old Oak Ken Loach
«Are you sure ?“Asked the British veteran (86) when he learned of his new entry into competition for a social drama, shot in the north-east of England. The film recounts the meeting of a pub owner and a Syrian refugee.
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