“And the party continues!” », “Vincent must die”, “Little Girl Blue”… Cinema releases on November 15

2023-11-15 08:54:23

♦ And the party continues! ***

by Robert Guédiguian

French film, 1h46

Four years after the very dark Glory of the worldRobert Guédiguian offers a luminous story about the commitment that gives faith in the future. And the party continues! is anchored in the news of the collapses of rue d’Aubagne and the mobilization which led to the Marseille Spring coalition (the main character, Rosa, is freely inspired by Michèle Rubirola, elected mayor in 2020). Despite a disconcerting puzzle narrative construction, the film ends up taking on its full dramatic scope, carried by the resplendent interpretations of Ariane Ascaride and Lola Neymark.

» READ THE REVIEW: “And the party continues! », the re-enchanted future of Robert Guédiguian

♦ Vincent must die ***

by Stéphan Castang

Franco-Belgian film, 1h48

Nothing initially indicated a shift. An advertising graphic designer, Vincent jokes during a meeting about the intern who doesn’t bring him coffee. The joke clearly doesn’t work and the intern hits Vincent in the head with a laptop. Accountant, homeless, driver and even children… In the days that followed, Vincent provoked inexplicable violence among his loved ones and strangers. A fantastic dystopia anchored in reality, with an archetypal Vincent of the norm who must change his life to survive, and who echoes the suspicion that gripped some of us at the start of the pandemic.

» READ THE REVIEW: “Vincent must die”, violence in a glance

♦ Little Girl Blue **

de Mona Achache

French film, 1h35

Carole Achache committed suicide in 2016 at the age of 63, leaving her daughter Mona with thousands of photos, letters, recordings and notebooks to explain. In 2011, she published Daughter ofa book in which she revealed how her mother, editor and novelist, had delivered her at the age of 14 to the perverse and manipulative games of the writer Jean Genet and his companion Jacky, leading her towards drugs and prostitution.

Mona Achache decided to make a film of it, a strange cinematographic object between documentary, fiction, and psychoanalytic experience. The result is personal and very powerful in reproducing the pattern of abuse from one generation to the next.

» READ THE REVIEW: “Little Girl Blue” by Mona Achache, genealogy of violence

♦ How to Have Sex **

de Molly Manning Walker

Greek-British film, 1 hour 28 minutes

Malia, in Crete, an apartment overlooking the hotel swimming pool, partying with English neighbors. For the excited trio formed by Tara, Skye and Em, these few days of vacation symbolize the end of their high school years and the transition to adulthood. But they are also the portrait of a generation grappling with injunctions, even in their intimate lives. In a fast-paced party atmosphere, filmmaker Molly Manning Walker delicately evokes the discovery of sexuality but also the ambiguous question of consent and its gray areas. All carried by the sensitive interpretation of Mia McKenna-Bruce.

» READ THE REVIEW: “How to Have Sex”, behind the party, the ambiguity of consent

♦ The Little Blond of the Casbah *

by Alexandre Arcady

French film, 2:06 a.m.

In this new film with autobiographical overtones, Alexandre Arcady evokes his childhood in Algiers through the character of Antoine (Léo Campion), a caring boy whose only deviation is his passion for cinema. Amid the chaos of the Algerian conflict, the focus broadens and describes a colorful family which provides some touching scenes. The film is nevertheless tarnished by the self-satisfaction of the filmmaker, who appears years later, having become a renowned filmmaker (played by Patrick Mille), welcomed with fervor in Algiers for a new film. An embarrassing self-indulgence that crushes all emotion.

» READ THE REVIEW: “Le Petit Blond de la Casbah”, the complacent nostalgia of Arcady

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