2023-09-13 07:00:00
The life of teachers in a suburban college, the adaptation of an Agatha Christie novel and the daily life of a director who failed with his film… Discover the cinema selection from Le Figaro.
A serious job – To have
Dramatic comedy by Thomas Lilti, 1h41
Thomas Lilti leaves the hospital environment for National Education. So here we are in a middle school in the suburbs. It’s back to school. Vincent Lacoste, with his eternal rookie face, arrives to replace a mathematics teacher. He is taken for an intern. In the classroom, things start off badly: the window doesn’t close. This detail alone sums up the situation. There is always a window that does not close, and we teach our class anyway. System D rules. Colleagues welcome the newcomer with kindness tinged with irony. Lilti touches it just right, doesn’t add to it, avoids clichés. That’s life. It’s there, not so simple, never boring. With A serious jobeven the dunces would be ready to sign for a school year. E.N.
Mystery in Venice – To have
Policeman by Kenneth Branagh, 1h44
After The crime of the Orient Express in 2017 and Death on the Nile in 2021, Kenneth Branagh decided to step out of his comfort zone by freely transposing a much lesser known work by Agatha Christie, Le Crime d’Halloween. Where the plot of the original short story took place on the eve of All Saints’ Day in a lost manor house in the English countryside, the director of Belfast decided to spice up the sauce. Nothing like Venice to impress. Misty lagoons, masks, bautas and gondolas serve as the setting for this new and most successful “murder party”. O.D.
The Book of Solutions – To have
Dramatic comedy by Michel Gondry, 1h42
In 2013 released on screens The Foam of Days. A big budget adaptation. Fans of Michel Gondry’s films (there are many) and Boris Vian’s novel (there are still some) do not rush to the theaters. Reviews are mixed. The failure is relative but Gondry’s trauma is very deep. The director ofEternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind attempts to exorcise this problematic film with The Book of Solutions. Ten years later, he returns to the editing of The Foam of Days, when he fled with the rushes to his aunt’s house in the Cévennes, far from Paris and the producers dismayed by the first version he showed them. His alter ego is named Marc. We do not see an image of The Foam of Days. But everything else is true, or probable. In this uncompromising self-portrait of the artist in crisis, love has the last word. It saves everything, even cinema. E.S.
The Secrets of the Princess of Cadignan – You can see
Romance by Arielle Dombasle, 1h28
Balzac would not have come back. Seeing her libertine illustrated by the irresistible, unique Arielle Dombasle is too much. The whole thing is funny. The actress throws herself wholeheartedly into her project, with the originality and excess of a Sapritch (blonde and pretty version). This total absence of naturalness is its trademark. She doesn’t hesitate, shows her breasts, sings Handel, is always escorted by admirers like Amanda Lear during the disco era. We are constantly on the verge of ridicule, without knowing exactly which side. A thousand times better than Jeanne Dielman, 23 quai du Commerce, 1080 Brussels. E.N.
The big cart – You can see
Drama by Philippe Garrel, 1h35
Since the investigation published in Mediapart on August 30 in which several actresses (including Anna Mouglalis and Clotilde Hesme) testify to non-consensual kisses on the part of Philippe Garrel, we can imagine the embarrassment of his children, the actors Louis, Esther and Léna . They are starring in their father’s latest film. Through a family of puppeteers, The Big Cart talks about the weight of inheritance, the difficulty of freeing oneself, the life of an artist and love. A disturbing abyss.
Last summer – To avoid
Drama by Catherine Breillat, 1h44
Anne secretly succumbs to the charm of Théo, her stepson, who imagines himself to be the reincarnation of Tadzio from Death in Venice. We see that in the region the Bovarys spend their free time without worrying about morality. Oh dear, Breillat is going strong. Lovebirds are really lazy people, the thing usually happens at home, which avoids hotel costs and gossip from the neighbors. Let’s call it a domestic accident. The two hours are on the screen. There is displayed a great naivety, blushes that are no longer in season, an old-fashioned audacity. Last summer, a remake of a Danish film that no one has seen, looks like Chabrol under bromide. It would make a nice first film. This is the fourteenth signed by Catherine Breillat. Find the mistake. E.N.
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