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THE LORD OF THE RINGS: WAR OF THE ROHIRRIM ★★★☆☆
By Kenji Kamiyama
The essentials
A sexy and flamboyant animated adventure in Middle-earth, but which remains too subservient to Peter Jackson's trilogy to stand on its own two feet.
This may well be the good geek idea of the year: shooting a spin-off of Lord of the Rings way anime. Repaint Tolkien in the colors of Japanese animation. So here we are among the Rohirrim, at the heart of a King Lear-style intrigue between different clans. Legacies and ancestral violence that will be resolved with blows of siege to the face. Good viking pornin short, which would certainly not have been out of place on Netflix between Castlevania And Twilight of the Gods by Snyder. Except that we are at the cinema and the director is the great Kenji Kamiyama, the creator of the TV series Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex. Compared to this one, despite its beauty, its rhythm and its efforts, The Rohirrim War takes more of the order work. When will there be new Saruman, new Rohirrim, a new Middle Earth? It won't be this time. And it's a shame, because the film manages to transform the vintage Rohirrim into sexy creatures, competing for charisma, during flamboyant and romantic duels that evoke the epic power of the Chronicles of the Lodosian Warto name only the most influential of anime of fantasy.
Sylvestre Picard
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PREMIERE LIKED A LOT
TWENTY GODS ★★★★☆
By Louise Courvoisier
Totone, an 18-year-old teenager, party animal, carefree, suddenly caught up in the most tragic of realities. The death of his father will force him to find money to be able to stay on the farm with his little sister and obtain custody of her. And in order to achieve this, he will set out to win the competition… for the best county in the region! In this coming of age storyin parallel with learning how to make cheese, Totone discovers desire and especially physical love in the arms of a young farmer. This Jura in which the action takes place, director Louise Courvoisier films rurality with rare accuracy. Shot in scope, his film has the appearance of a western, thus embracing its hero's idea of conquest of a territory. But the greatest strength of Twenty gods and its irresistible cast of non-professional actors is that despite all the obstacles placed in the way of its young hero, he never loses his luminous, joyful, exalted appearance. A Little farmer with Dumont sauce, faith in humanity and more!
Thierry Cheze
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FOTOGENICO ★★★★☆
By Marcia Romano and Benoît Sabatier
We enter this film through the shaggy grace of Raoul (sublime Christophe Paou, formerly Unknown from the lake for Guiraudie), a shipwrecked father who arrives in Marseille in search of the traces left by Agnès, his daughter who died a year earlier. He immediately finds himself confronted with settings that do not conform to what he thought. But from this trompe-l'oeil opens a sensitive world that Raoul welcomes with the happiness of the squatter. Here he is among modern young people, once linked by music but whose group spirit has been lost. Raoul intends to repair everything in the name of Agnès. Sublime sequences of a father searching for the precise place where his daughter died in order to lie there in turn. Fotogenico is an electric film, ultra-sensitive but never tearful, capable of re-enchanting French cinema that is too well-groomed.
Thomas Baura
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FIRST TO LIKE
WOMEN ON THE BALCONY ★★★☆☆
By Noémie Merlant
Three women in the grip of the Marseille heatwave fantasize about their mysterious neighbor across the street and try to flirt with him. But the business goes wrong (to say the least) and through a combination of bad decisions the trio must defend themselves for their freedom. Noémie Merlant's second feature film is not afraid to borrow from comedy, drama, thriller and even horror to achieve disconcerting originality. What if Women on the balcony shocks, he does it with indisputable confidence. He is not afraid to be (very) gory, to rub shoulders with burlesque scenes, but remains capable of plunging us into the necessary seriousness when the seriousness of a situation demands it. Because even if it loses its viewer at times it nevertheless shines through the artistic intuition of its author. Noémie Merlant does not seem to be in a quest for accuracy but in the testimony of a feminine experience without modesty, funny, raw and surprising.
Bastien Assie
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SAINT-EX ★★★☆☆
By Pablo Agüero
In the biopic fair that sees filmmakers wallowing headlong into their own fake settings one by one, we thought that this homage to Saint-Exupery would crash a little faster than the others. The first minutes in a cinema sky where the falsehood partly assuming itself produces an almost childish enchantment are intriguing. Once accepted this poetic pact facilitated by the malice of the actors complicit in the deal, we follow them wherever they want and steal. Once on the ground, things get a little worse, in the absence of dramatic issues to match the promised vertigo. But in the air everything becomes possible again. It is precisely there, suspended, that the Argentinian Pablo Agüero (The Witches of Akelarre…) manages to get his small business off the ground again. The filmmaker believes in the possibilities of his art and like an adventurer in the air seeks to track the horizon.
Thomas Baura
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CHRISTMAS IN MILLER’S POINT ★★★☆☆
By Tyler Thomas Taormina
Christmas at Miller's Point : the title sounds like that of an average Christmas TV movie. In fact, the context is intended to be as ordinary as possible: a New Year's Eve in a middle-class US family, with presents in a mess under the tree, turkey on the table, kids gorging on candy, nice drunken uncles, sweet sixties soundtrack . Clichés, yes, but put into orbit by the magical gaze of Tyler Taormina, a little indie prodigy revealed by Ham on Rye. Zapping at full speed from one character to another, from a crazy detail to a poetic micro-epiphany, the filmmaker works a kind of feverish pointillism, tearing away scraps of eternity from the most prosaic everyday life, to reflect on the way in which memories are composed and sedimented. His film ends up having the floating texture of a reminiscence, which would have emerged in a flash from the depths of our own memory. That Christmas, for sure, we experienced it.
Frédéric Foubert
TONY, SHELLY AND THE MAGIC LIGHT ★★★☆☆
By Filip Posiva
There are talents that are impossible to ignore. Unknown to us until now, the Czech Filip Pošivač signs his first feature, awarded the Contrechamp Jury Prize in 2023 at the Annecy festival. The director already has everything of a great creator of universes, capable of making us forget the prowess of his stop motion animation (of a quite astonishing purity, to the point that certain passages could be confused with computer-generated images) to achieve a sense of wonder that only a few masters of the genre manage to touch. In Tony, Shelly and the Magic Lightwe follow Tony, 11 years old, born with the particularity of shining like a night light. Cut off from the world, he meets a strange girl, Shelly, and the two will try to understand what are the mysterious clumps of darkness that suck the light out of their homes. A beautiful story about self-acceptance.
François Léger
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FARC GUERILLA: THE FUTURE HAS A STORY ★★★☆☆
By Pierre Carles
“ Remember », Repeats Pierre Carles to his late father-in-law and filmmaker Duni Kuzmanich. How to thank him for depicting guerrilla warfare in his work – Canaguaro in particular – other than by providing him with an overview of more than 10 years of the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia, from the ceasefire clashes until the return in 2016 of the guerrillas to a civilian life full of disillusionment? How, if not by carrying out a monumental collection of interviews which places itself on the side of the rebels, skillfully escaping the demonization carried out by the media. If he interviews eminent figures of the FARC, from Jesus Santrich to Miguel Pascuas, it is when he speaks with the anonymous members of the maquis that Pierre Carles brings a fresh perspective: in front of us women and men express themselves in the midst of social and peasant struggle, very far from the binary vision imposed until now.
Lucie Chiquer
NO OUR MOVERAN ★★★☆☆
By Pierre Saint Martin Castellanos
Socorro, a disorderly old lawyer, has only one obsession: finding the soldier who killed her brother sixty years earlier. Filmed in black and white, locked in a chaotic apartment and building, it could quickly run out of air and make us claustrophobic. But No nos moverán paints the portrait of an old woman as funny as she is endearing surrounded by picturesque characters and finds in this relentless quest the features of a radiant comedy.
Bastien Assie
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