Here we are, finally: from this Wednesday, the floodgates are gradually reopened for culture, especially cinemas. What to see there? Focus makes the story.
1. New releases, often postponed for a long time
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Nomadland ****
by Chloé Zhao
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=txby7_WvQGA Mandibles
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Quentin Dupieux unfolds the adventures of two nice idiots grappling with a giant fly in a sagacious comedy under his cretinous delusions. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LSSbB5eUKnY
Cruella
de Craig Gillespie Without radically breaking with Disney narrative canons, Cruella gives them a hair-raising facelift.
***, by Jérémie Guez With Sons of Philadelphia, the young French director Jérémie Guez signs an uneven but promising film noir infused with cinephile passion.
*** by Ruben Alves This is the story of Alex, a kid who, at nine, has only one dream: to become Miss France. A fable playing with clichés the better to defuse them.
** d’Eliza Schroeder
In order to honor the memory of Sarah, who accidentally disappeared, her daughter, mother and best friend unite to make her dream come true: to open a bakery in Notting Hill. Charming but somewhat tasteless.
Voyagers
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* by Neil Burger
Neil Burger reenacts His Majesty of the Flies by starlight. Intersidereal boredom is never far away.
2. Films already released before the reconfinement but which have not been used much in theaters and are enjoying a second life today. Drunk
****, by Thomas VinterbergThomas Vinterberg finds Mads Mikkelsen for this film which does not pour into the easy apology of alcohol, nor in the heavily moralizing narrative.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k_qHepRf544
****, by Albert Dupontel It’s been a quarter of a century already –
Bernie
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9uotsv-vf6I
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Slalom
***by Charlène Favier
The French Charlène Favier summons some of the emblematic motifs of the world of fairy tales to stage the abusive hold of a ski trainer on his young protégé. A graphically successful and incisive first film.
– https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oalKu1w4iMw
The last film festival to take place in 2020 before the reconfinement of culture, the Millennium Festival will be the very first to find its way back to theaters, from June 10 to 20. During this period, the Galeries, Vendôme and CIVA cinemas will host a program consisting of award-winning films from the international competition, the young Belgian filmmakers competition and the Belgian cinema competition, as well as a selection of favorite films.
“After having organized a 13th edition online, the desire to find our audience in theaters was a necessity. The Millenium” In Cinemas “represents a real breath of fresh air and embodies a look to the future”
, underlines Zlatina Rousseva, artistic director of the festival.
Unfolding in the immensity of the American space, Chloé Zhao’s film, tripled at the Oscars, focuses on those left behind in disruption of the American dream. Quentin Dupieux unfolds the adventures of two nice idiots grappling with a giant fly in a sagacious comedy under his cretinous delusions.Without breaking radically with the Disney narrative canons, Cruella gives them a hair-raising facelift.With Sons of Philadelphia, the young French director Jérémie Guez signs an uneven but promising film noir infused with cinephile passion. This is the story of Alex, a kid who, at nine, has only one dream: to become Miss France. A fable playing clichés to better defuse them. In order to honor the memory of Sarah, who accidentally disappeared, her daughter, her mother and her best friend unite to make her dream of opening a bakery in Notting Hill come true. Charming but somewhat tasteless, Neil Burger reenacts His Majesty of the Flies by starlight. Intersidereal boredom is never far away.Thomas Vinterberg finds Mads Mikkelsen for this film which does not pour into the easy apology of alcohol, nor in the heavily moralizing narrative. ‘was in 1996- that Albert Dupontel built an offbeat and generous work, signing, at more or less regular intervals, small burlesque and lighted pearls celebrating, air of nothing, the failures of existence. summons some of the emblematic motifs from the world of fairy tales to stage the abusive hold of a ski trainer over his young protégé. A graphically successful and incisive first film. The last film festival that took place in 2020 before the reconfinement of culture, the Millennium Festival will be the very first to find its way back to theaters, from June 10 to 20. During this period, the Galeries, Vendôme and CIVA cinemas will host a program consisting of award-winning films from the international competition, the young Belgian filmmakers competition and the Belgian cinema competition as well as a selection of favorite films. “After having organized. a 13th edition online, the desire to find our audience in theaters was a necessity. The Millenium “In Cinemas” represents a real breath of fresh air and embodies a look to the future “, underlines Zlatina Rousseva, artistic director of the festival .
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Albert Dupontel
