The film by Lise Akoka and Romane Guéret recounts a shoot featuring young novice actors in a city of Boulogne-sur-Mer. Ovation at the Cannes Film Festival this Sunday, where the feature film was screened in the Un Certain Regard section.
– Published: May 22, 2022 at 6:01 p.m.
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A round of applause greeted the screening of the film The worst, presented at the Cannes Film Festival this Sunday afternoon. As a first exhibition under the spotlight, it’s hard to do more moving. Rain of tears too, therefore.
It must be said that the feature film by Lise Akoka and Romane Guéret, authors of royal hunt, a short film shot in Valenciennes and awarded at Cannes in 2016, knows how to touch our hearts. The duo this time set up their cameras in Boulogne-sur-Mer, in the midst of many extras, to tell the story of a set that needs apprentice actors. But be careful, we are in a difficult area. The filmmaker (Johan Heldenbergh) wants authentic, racy profiles, ” children who have not had an easy life ».
He hires Lily (Mallory Wanecque, 15-year-old from Valenciennes), a half-sunny, half-wild teenager, but also Jessy (Loïc Pech), Maylis (Mélina Vanderplancke) and the very young Ryan (Timéo Mahaut), a boy with a steely gaze having trouble hiding an anger that gnaws at him inside. He took ” the worst “, ironically the district.
The whole tribe will be led to play the comedy, according to the sometimes clumsy instructions of the Flemish director, right where they live, under the gaze of the family, friends, onlookers. For these teenagers of today, forged in the violence of human relationships and social networks but not yet seasoned adults, reality mixes with fiction and vice versa. Feelings overlap, jostle and contradict each other. Lily, a young girl with a bruised family life, has also bad reputation in the city. Imagine the terms used when she has to shoot a scene in bed!
In doing so, the two directors (those of Pires in this case) question with acuity the way we look at the “cassos” (the expression is in the film), very often blocks of raw emotions which are not necessarily expressed on command. There are smiles and tears, but above all great love for people in this lovely film presented as part of the Un Certain Regard section, which is also competing for the Caméra d’or for first feature film.
Released on screens November 23.
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