” Where are the women ? Sang Patrick Juvet. This Wednesday, they are in no less than five films on the screens: The Fine Flower by Pierre Pinaud, Sisters by Yamina Benguigui, My Zoe by Julie Delpy, Gold for dogs by Anna Cazenave Cambet and Under Alice’s sky by Chloé Mazlo. We talk about courage, determination and resilience in the feminine plural. It’s up to you to choose the one that will tempt you the most.
“Sisters” and “Under the sun of Alice”, marked by history
As the title of the film suggests, Sisters by Yamina Benguigui plays the sorority card by bringing together Maïwenn, Isabelle Adjani and Rachida Brakni in search of their brother in Algeria. The actresses, supported by Hafzia Herzi, are the major asset of Yamina Benguigui’s film, which speaks “of this link which brings us back to our common history” says the director in the press kit. These women, torn between two countries, can touch.
Lebanon serves as a setting for happiness and then for the sorrows of a Swiss expatriate in Under Alice’s sky released under the Cannes 2020 label. Alba Rohrwacher plays a heroine inspired by the director’s grandmother in this serious but often fanciful work against a backdrop of war. “It’s complicated to talk about attachment to a country because, seen from the outside, it’s not rational,” explains filmmaker Chloé Mazlo. She succeeds.
“My Zoé” and “La Fine fleur”, the mother and the rose
“In Greek, Zoé means life which is renewed”, specifies Julie Delpy, an ideal name for the girl of My Zoe in which the actress and director directs herself as a moving mother. Confronted with the incurable disease of her daughter, this scientific mother finds an original solution not to lose her. Julie Delpy moves greatly but loses the viewer a little in a second part that is too clinical.
In The Fine Flower, Catherine Frot practices an unusual activity. She creates roses and has to contend with an odious rival. Based on a clever script co-written by
Fadette Drouard (Patients), the actress plays a character determined to save her business with an energy that commands admiration for this hardworking woman who also knows how to be delicate with flowers.
“Gold for dogs” in a convent in the Landes
What a nice surprise that Gold for dogs, discovered by Critics’ Week! Director Anna Cazenave Cambet reveals the sensitive
Thallulah Cassavetti as a teenage girl in love who moves from the luminous landscapes of the Landes to a convent cell. This first film is an ode to happiness swollen with tenderness. We emerge with a delighted smile after discovering this girl that the filmmaker describes as a “pagan virgin”.