Arte makes its cinema: from Sansfilter to Pacifiction, 9 new releases can be seen in replay

There is also Corsage, Il buco, Les Nuits de Mashhad, More than ever (the last film by Gaspard Ulliel)…

The online festival Arte makes its cinema returns this year with a selection of nine new releases in the clear. Movies “strong and original”co-produced by the Franco-German channel, “which reflect the abundant diversity of auteur cinema”. Here is the list, along with some details and an excerpt from the review of First for each feature film just below: Without filterby Ruben Ostlund, Bodiceby Marie Kreutzer, The Nights of Mashhadby Ali Abbasi, Pacifiction – Torment on the Islandsby Albert Serra, More than everby Emily Atef, Warsaw 83, an affair of stateby Jan P. Matuszynski, He bucoby Michelangelo Frammartino, The Cairo Conspiracyby Tarik Saleh and finally Virgin of Albaniaby Bujar Alimani.

Broadcast since November 17 on television, the selection is now entirely online, available for free replay: the last to be programmed are He bucoSunday at midnight 50, then The Cairo Conspiracyat 9 p.m.

Note that these films will remain scheduled on Arte.TV until approximately mid-December.

All the replays of Arte fait son cinema are here

Without filterof Ruben Ostlund

The director of The Square won a second Palme d'Or for Without filter (Triangle of Sadness)in 2022. We met him in Cannes at the time, shortly before the sudden disappearance of his young leading actress, Charlbi Deansurrounded here by Woody Harrelson and Harris Dickinson.

“After contemporary art in The SquareÖstlund here attacks the leisure industry, consumerism and the emptiness of social networks (among others), we wrote in our critical. A perfect Palme d’Or in short because at the festival, Without filter had the effect of a satirical scud fired into the heart of the Cannes circus, denouncing the bourgeois vanities and hypocrisies of the elites. (…) The trouble is that his farce stretches exaggeratedly through sequences punctuated by slow squeaks, and that he displays sometimes hackneyed gags (storm of vomit and torrents of poop) to recreate the portrait contemporary emptiness. Without ideal recourse, Without filter ends up purring with its own grin…”

Ruben Östlund: “Unfiltered is based on a story that happened to me at the Cannes Film Festival”

Bodiceby Marie Kreutzer

Marie Kreutzer (We used to be coolunpublished by us) revisits the figure of Sissi in a haughty gesture of never stifling modernity. And once again, Vicky Krieps (Phantom Threads, The Three Musketeers d'Artagnan And Milady) is exceptional. It was also she who suggested telling this story in the cinema to the director. All details are here.

The Nights of Mashhadby Ali Abbasi

After having left its mark on Cannes festival-goers thanks to the strange Borders (2018), Ali Abbasi moved away from fantasy to tell here the story of the most famous Iranian serial killer. A very effective thriller for the one who just came out The Apprenticethe film starring Sebastian Stan about the rise of Donald Trump. What's more is carried by an exceptional actressZar Amir Ebrahimi, who had to flee his country of origin at the time of the film's release, his life being threatened.

Ali Abbasi – Nights of Mashhad: “I am worried about my actors who still live in Iran”

Pacifiction – Torment on the Islandsby Albert Serra

If you still haven't seen Albert Serra's latest gem, which earned Benoît Magimel his second César in two years, this catch-up session is highly recommended. Première fell in love with this film when it came out:

“Magimel, white suit of an exiled dandy, sunglasses of a worried star, is a High Commissioner of the Republic based in Tahiti. Hero of a novel by Conrad or Herman Melville stranded in the present. (…) Albert Serra observes this man and this world, in suspension, in fact of observation, the filmmaker literally penetrates his soul and contaminates the senses of the spectator. It is pure poetry, dark and adventurous romanticism, where the. grotesque which emerges, defuses all gravity. Modern cinema which thwarts the imposed figures of illustrated scenarios like its main actor.

Benoît Magimel – Pacifiction: “If I feel good about the person in front of me, I go for it!”

More than everby Emily Atef

“It is obviously impossible to watch this Emily Atef film as the director of Three days in Quiberon and its performers Vicky Krieps and Gaspard Ulliel dreamed it and shot it, we wrote by discovering it, also at Cannes 2022. The story of Hélène and Mathieu, a loving couple, struck by Hélène's serious illness and her choice to refuse to fight against death and to go and recharge her batteries alone in Norway which amazes Mathieu. Because in the meantime, Gaspard Ulliel has suddenly left and each scene where he appears so vibrant in the role of the one who will stay alive and refuses the death of the one he loves takes us back to this unbearable tragedy.

But it would be misleading to limit the intense emotion we feel in front of More Than Ever to this. The perceptible power of this variation around the end of life goes well beyond…”

Cannes 2022 – Vicky Krieps: “Working with Emily Atef and Gaspard Ulliel was very intuitive”

Warsaw 83, an affair of stateby Jan P. Matuszynski

A fascinating and stifling dive into General Jaruzelski's communist Poland around the murder of a teenager by police officers. A blunder which inspired the filmmaker Jan P. Matuszynski (The Last Family), who explained: “The only reason the case has resurfaced is because of the presence of an eyewitness.”

“And if a glance can contradict an official version suddenly extirpated from its blind spot, the stories can no longer agree, analyzed when it came out First. The film will therefore beat to the rhythm of this 'eyewitness', Jurek (Tomasz Zietek). The space, the beings and the figures that surround him will soon reflect back to him something other than what they are supposed to show. The insidious paranoia is slowly taking hold.”

He bucoby Michelangelo Frammartino

Lovers of beautiful landscapes will not be disappointed, but others? Première had not been fully convinced by this exploration film.

“In 1961, a group of speleologists advanced into the depths of an unexplored cave in Calabria. Between documentary and fiction, Michelangelo Frammartino reconstructs this expedition through a sensory film which aims to make spectators feel what these people are experiencing. explorers like the nature that surrounds them in the open air or during their cave diving.

The Quattro turns aroundhis previous film, was already 'a contemplative contemplation' Calabrian landscapes. (…) As if Frammartino contemplated his own images much more than he wanted to share them.”

The Cairo Conspiracyby Tarik Saleh

Tarik Saleh caused a sensation with Cairo Confidential (2017), a sticky thriller set during the Mubarak era which did not please the authorities, forcing it to relocate its filming to Morocco. With this Cairo conspiracyawarded a Screenplay Prize at the 2022 Cannes Film Festival, Saleh has not even attempted to set foot in a country where he is now judged.undesirable”.

“It was therefore in Turkey that he withdrew,” we explained when reviewing his film. He, by his own admission, envisioned this spy thriller as a classic prison film. A great idea that he did not only half converted, the fault of a screenplay (the Cannes Prize remains a mystery) using too many tricks and certain imposed figures to spice up a story which did not need it. What remains is an immersive staging of one. big efficiency and this feverish impression of permanent danger.”

Virgin of Albaniaby Bujar Alimani

At the end of the 1950s, under the dictatorship of Enver Hoxha, young Luana, to escape the curse of being born a girl, chose to become a man.

With this film, Arte offers a closer look at “these Albanian women whom tradition authorizes to change their gender, on the sole condition that they undertake under oath to remain virgins. At the same time prisoner of ancestral codes and of the repressive terror of one of the worst communist dictatorships of the Cold War, the rebel Luana (formidable Rina Krasniqi), whom the gentle Agim taught to read, makes this choice in a firm desire for emancipation.”

Not recommended for under 16s, Virgins of Albania is visible between 10 p.m. and 6 a.m.