The cinema outings of the week with Thierry Fiorile and Matteu Maestracci. “Christophe… definitely” by Dominique Gonzalez-Foerster and Ange Leccia, and “Women talking” by Sarah Polley.
“Christophe… definitely” by Dominique Gonzalez-Foerster and Ange Leccia
This documentary which is not really one is signed by the duo of visual artists and videographers Dominique Gonzalez-Foerster and Ange Leccia. In 2002, Christophe made his big comeback on stage after 28 years of absence, it was a triumph and the film plunged us into his scenic universe. Both on stage, with him and the public, but also behind the scenes, with his collaborators. It’s very beautiful and sought after visually, around the sublime voice of the singer.
Christophe’s fans will enjoy themselves, the others no doubt too, even if this anti-documentary and its formal biases can undoubtedly disconcert. It is very touching to find the late singer as in himself, and who appears to us here in turn as a genius, a jack-of-all-trades for culture, and especially cinema – the documentary begins elsewhere by a list of his favorite films that he punctuates on stage – but also sometimes like a somewhat capricious and shy little boy who constantly needs to be reassured.
“Women talking” de Sarah Polley
The Canadian actress signs her fourth film as a director by adapting the novel what they say by Miriam Toews, himself inspired by a terrible affair that occurred in a Mennonite community in Bolivia in 2010. In the film, the name of the religious colony is not mentioned, but we are in what looks like a Christian sect , who lives as a recluse and as in the 19th century. In this closed world, men rape women, of all ages, at night, after having put them to sleep with a sedative for animals; in the morning, the community accepts the official version: it is the devil who has struck.
But one day, a culprit is unmasked, he denounces all the others and while the men are all in town, the women meet in a barn to decide together: stay and fight or flee the community. Sarah Polley films this long debate – where all opinions are expressed – and it is overwhelming. Rooney Mara, Claire Foy, Jessie Buckley and Frances McDormand carry voices that resonate today.