2023-05-16 17:46:30
The sole of criticism 1/10
Immersed for several months in the Cannes metaverse and the hard drives of Thierry Frémaux, our reviewer had preview access to the films of the 2027 official selection. He tells us everything.
Director of a care unit in the Landes, Anna (Laure Calamy) dies suddenly after contracting a mutant form of Covid-19. Accused from all sides, Xavier (Pio Marmaï), an unvaccinated nurse who has just been reinstated in the department, soon flees, pursued by Hugues (Philippe Katerine), Anna’s bereaved boyfriend, and Oleksandr (Denis Ménochet), a mute stretcher-bearer with a troubled past, freshly arrived from Ukraine. Alerted by Hermine (Isabelle Adjani), Anna’s mother, the dark and melancholic Falco (François Cluzet), a retired policeman converted into tarantula breeding, will try to intercept them before they commit the irreparable. By mixing genres and tones – drama, thriller, fantasy –, Of men and dunes autopsy the ills that are eating away at a bloodless France, which only knows how to howl and where no one listens to each other. A harsh, violent, but tender film, which reveals the dark side of actors hitherto confined to more pleasant roles – Philippe Katerine, overwhelming as an avenger eaten away by hatred, and especially François Cluzet, in what is clearly needed as the most ambiguous role of his career. A scathing critique of a society of make-believe where the most basic landmarks are shattered, Jérôme Bouvier-Bouzon’s film is above all a deeply humanist work. Who calls with all his strength, but with calm and balance, a necessary reconciling dialogue between men, women and tarantulas.
Of men and dunesby Jérôme Bouvier-Bouzon, with Philippe Katerine, Isabelle Adjani, François Cluzet, Pio Marmaï… 1h43.
#men #dunes #Liberation