2024-03-27 08:34:02
– What films should you watch in theaters this week?
Like every year before Easter, there is a rush of outings and there is truly something for all sensibilities. It’s up to you to make your choices
Published today at 9:34 a.m. “Green Border”
It’s not easy to enter the territory of the European Union. This is what a Syrian family determined to reach Sweden will see and experience. It is upon arriving in the area between Belarus and Poland that things get tough for these travelers who will find themselves literally bogged down, and not only because the place is marshy, in the company of several other families, held at gunpoint. by soldiers not particularly known for their sense of humor. It is this horrific and seemingly insurmountable state of affairs that veteran Agnieszka Holland represents in “Green Border,” planting her camera in a frightening no-man’s land from which all humanity seems to have been banished.
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A committed filmmaker with an uneven career, she has been the target of several attacks since the film’s release. The ultraconservative Polish government denigrated her and launched a campaign against her handling of the migration crisis. The Minister of Justice called her a Nazi while comparing her work to that of Stalinists and communists. Anti-Semitic insults, death threats, everything is a pretext to insult him, attacks again targeting the actors in the film. Atmosphere! Go see “Green Border”, it’s a necessary film.
Note: ***
•= hateful, °= at your own risk, *= good, **= interesting, ***= excellent, ****= masterpiece
Director: Agnieszka Holland
Avec Jalal Altawil, Maja Ostaszewska
Political film (Pol./Fra., 152′)
“River”
We call them the gaves. Term also cited in Diderot’s Encyclopedia which designates powerful rivers between the Pyrenees and the Atlantic. However, these natural waterways are suffering greatly. Human activity is disrupting the water cycle and the biodiversity found there. Two examples taken at random: corn fields make them thirsty and dams prevent the movement of salmon. But around and along these rivers, gravitates a whole world full of love towards these rivers. These are the people that Dominique Marchais films and to whom he gives a voice.
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Obsessed by the aquatic element, but especially by contemporary rural landscapes, which we find in almost all of his films, the documentarian and former film critic signs a calm and disenchanted testimony, in which it is about seeing the world through the eyes of the people he interviews. The film does not denounce vehemently, it does not force one to adopt this or that position, but moves forward, with quiet force, into the beginnings of a catastrophe unfolding before our eyes. You have to take the time to observe and listen. “The river” speaks to us.
Note: ***
•= hateful, °= at your own risk, *= good, **= interesting, ***= excellent, ****= masterpiece
Director: Dominique Marchais
Documentary (Fra., 104′)
“The New Woman”
Here is a double portrait of a woman which is also Léa Todorov’s pretext for a rather elegant historical fiction even if relatively unoriginal. We are in Paris, in 1900. A courtesan tries as best she can to hide the existence of a girl born with a mental handicap. In order to preserve her career, she left for Rome and met Maria Montessori, a doctor who developed a revolutionary learning method for children who were then called deficient. However, she also hides a secret, a child born out of wedlock.
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It is therefore under the sponsorship of a strong relationship between two women who mutually help each other that the director conceived her film. Adequate, dominated by Leila Bekhti as dazzling as ever, but relatively impersonal in terms of staging.
Note: **
•= hateful, °= at your own risk, *= good, **= interesting, ***= excellent, ****= masterpiece
Director: Léa Todorov
With Jasmine Trinca, Leïla Bekhti
Historical film (French, 99′)
«Kung Fu Panda 4»
(from left) Po (Jack Black) and Zhen (Awkwafina) in DreamWorks Animation’s Kung Fu Panda 4, directed by Mike Mitchell.
He is a kung fu champion but above all indestructible. Since his arrival on the screens in 2008 (he was even in Cannes that year, but we forgot about him), the most famous panda in the animated world has been entitled to a fourth part.
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This time he faces a polymorphous witch, the Chameleone, teams up with a criminal but very cool vixen, and escapes a herd of wild bulls which ultimately only spares a china shop (best gag in the film).
The elasticity of the character gives tone to a footage that is nevertheless well shot. “Kung fu panda 4” is released the day before Easter to attract spectators. But movie fans will go elsewhere.
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•= hateful, °= at your own risk, *= good, **= interesting, ***= excellent, ****= masterpiece
Directors: Stephanie Stine and Mike Mitchell
Animation (USA, 94’)
Other movie releases of the weekPascal Gavillet has been a journalist in the cultural section since 1992. He mainly deals with cinema, but he also writes on other fields. Especially science. As such, he is also a mathematician.More information@PascalGavillet
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