The rich Un Certain Regard selection from the Cannes Film Festival arrives in Paris at the Reflet Médicis cinema (75005). Can’t recommend highly enough Rodeo, by Lola Quivoron, with young biker Julie Ledru; Plan 75, of Chie Hayakawa, imagining a generalized euthanasia plan in Japan; Return to SeoulDavy Chou’s second feature film on a Korean woman’s quest for identity adopted by French parents; Skirmishers, by Mathieu Vadepied, with a Sympathetic and serious Omar in this evocation of the battalions of French West Africa (AOF), which came to swell the manpower of the military corps sent to the front in 14-18; and above all, our favorite Godland, of Hlynur Palmason, a sublime crossing of Iceland in the 19th century by a young Danish priest.
The parallel Directors’ Fortnight section will also be resumed in Paris from June 16 to 26 at the Forum des images (75001) and there are many very good things to see. Notably Will-o’-the-wispby João Pedro Rodrigues (the loves of a prince heir to the throne of Portugal and a firefighter); Water by Elena Lopez Riera (Time.news of a summer in a village in southeastern Spain); the mountain by and with Thomas Salvador (a conquest of lightness by climbing on the heights of Chamonix).