Go for it !
“A family”
The writer leads us, through a poignant documentary filmed partly in Strasbourg and based on personal archives, into the tenacious examination of what made incest possible. Read our review and our interview with Christine Angot.
A family by and with Christine Angot… 1h21
“Bis Repeat”
Emilie Noblet imagines an irresponsible teacher (Louise Bourgoin) forced to make her dunces compete in an international Latin championship. An elegant and successful first film. Read our review.
Repeat by Emilie Noblet with Louise Bourgoin, Xavier Lacaille, Noémie Lvovsky… 1h26.
“Leave me”
Maxime Rappaz’s first feature film very soberly portrays Jeanne Balibar, mother of a disabled son who gets laid in a high-altitude hotel. Read our review.
Leave me by Maxime Rappaz, with Jeanne Balibar, Thomas Sarbacher, Pierre-Antoine Dubey 1h33.
“Averroes and Rosa Parks”
For the second part of his documentary triptych – after On the Adamant –, Nicolas Philibert this time focuses his attentive and human gaze on a closed unit of the psychiatric center of Paris-Centre. Read our review.
Averroes and Rosa Parks, documentary by Nicolas Philibert, 2h23. Nicolas Philibert retrospective from March 18 to 31 at the Cinémathèque Française (75012).
“Dust”
Mixing archives, fiction and documentary, the filmmaker explores the Karl-Marx district of Bobigny through a ghostly detective story. Read our review.
“Les Poussières” by Jean-Claude Taki, with Marc Barbé, Ania Svetovaya, Cédric Kahn, 1h09.
Pity !
“Out of season”
Guillaume Canet is in thalassotherapy, and the world sucks. A satire that quickly turns into angry and unpleasant hatred, by Stéphane Brizé. Read our review.
Out of season by Stéphane Brizé with Guillaume Canet, Alba Rohrwacher, Sharif Andoura… 1h46.
And also…
“Blue Summer”
Chinese filmmaker Zihan Geng makes a promising film about the birth of desire in a teenager in love with an older girl. Read our review from the Cannes Film Festival.
Blue Summer by Zihan Geng with Zhou Meijun, Ziqi Huang, Jing Liang… 1 h 32.
“Smoke Sauna Sisterhood”
Close to the skin and pores, Anna Hints’ documentary slips into the intimacy of the sacred saunas of Estonia, where women share their secrets as if to purge themselves of their ailments before snorting in the water frozen. Devoid of strong dramatic progression and sticking to a form of sororal trance, the film flows at a uniform pace which ends up slipping. But emotionally, it culminates in a stunning story of rape, suspended in the inexhaustible flow of words which seem to spring from faceless flesh, bathed in chiaroscuro.
Smoke Sauna Sisterhood by Anna Hints. 1h29
“Humanist vampire seeking consenting suicide”
The first feature film by Ariane Louis-Seize, directed by Sara Montpetit, renews a classic theme between comedy, horror and romanticism. Read our review.