“The Poet’s Bride”, “Consent”, “Nina and the Secret of the Hedgehog”… Cinema releases on October 11

2023-10-11 08:34:29

♦ The Poet’s Bride ***

by Yolande Moreau

French film, 1h43

Back in Charleville-Mézières, her hometown, Mireille is a waitress in the Beaux-Arts cafeteria and engages in some small business on the side. She decides to welcome three tenants into her home when Father Benoît advises her to ” open up to others “. With the student Cyril, the gardener Bernard and Elvis, a Turkish illegal alien, they form a community of gentle lunatics and cheats where harmony reigns. Until the return of “Poet”, Mireille’s first love. A pretty melancholy tale with a falsely crazy feel where everyone finds their part.

» READ THE REVIEW: “The Poet’s Bride”: Yolande Moreau and the fantasy of the ordinary

♦ Nina and the secret of the hedgehog ***

by Alain Gagnol and Jean-Loup Felicioli

French-Luxembourgish animated film, 1 h 18

From 6 years old

Nina, 10 years old, cherishes the stories of a little imaginary hedgehog told to her by her father Vincent, a worker. When he stops telling her stories, Nina understands that something is wrong. The factory that employed his father has closed since the boss fled with the money from the register. Arrested, the thug is found without his loot. To help her father, Nina decides to develop a plan with her friend Mehdi to find the missing money. A social drama for children softened by the elements of family comedy, carried by the talented duo Alain Gagnol and Jean-Loup Felicioli for a final collaboration.

» READ THE REVIEW: “Nina and the Secret of the Hedgehog”, a spicy social thriller for children

♦ The consent **

by Vanessa Filho

French film, 1h58

If, in his book The consent, Vanessa Springora kept quiet the name of her abuser, Gabriel Matzneff, director Vanessa Filho no longer takes this tweezers. The film shows the poisonous seduction and the control that the 49-year-old man exercises over the young girl, then 14 years old, and deliberately distills the unease. A grueling film carried by the sensitive interpretation of Kim Higelin and Jean-Paul Rouve, exceptional in this unsuitable role. An adaptation on the big screen which has the merit of prolonging awareness of these abuses, three years after the publication of the book which sold more than 300,000 copies.

» READ THE REVIEW: “Consent”, the chilling adaptation of Vanessa Springora’s book

♦ The Rapture **

d’Iris Kaltenbäck

French film, 1h37

After a romantic breakup, Lydia, a midwife, drags her grief through Paris. When her best friend, Salomé, tells her that she is pregnant, she takes charge of this pregnancy personally to the point of experiencing motherhood by proxy while locking herself in a spiral of lies and denial. Told from the point of view of Milos, taxi driver and Lydia’s lover for one night, this film at the crossroads of psychological drama and thriller manages to marry the two genres without a false note, despite an expected outcome.

» READ THE REVIEW:“The Rapture”, love and motherhood

♦ Marie-Line and her judge *

by Jean-Pierre Améris

French film, 1h43

Marie-Line has not had an easy life and certainly does not have her tongue in her pocket. Having fallen in love with a film student who does not accept their relationship, she physically attacks him and then the police. She was ordered to pay €1,500 in damages and lost her job. The judge who handed down the sentence, a regular at the bar where she worked, came to her aid and offered to pay her to be his driver for a month. If the complicity of Michel Blanc and Louane Emera awakens the story, the film does not escape numerous clichés.

» READ THE REVIEW: “Marie-Line and her judge”, change your life

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