Abduction, The Boy and the Heron, Inside… Movies to watch or avoid this week

To collect – Have

The drama of Marco Bellocchio, 2 hours 15

In 1858, in Bologna, a 6-year-old boy was taken from his Jewish family by the Pope’s soldiers. All this because he was allegedly secretly baptized by his nurse. The incident did not go unnoticed. Cartoonists all over the world, unaware of the existence of social networks, stepped in. With To collect, Marco Bellocchio He dwells on this news, which seems to have been concocted by an uninspired novelist. It’s huge. Libra falls out of sight. These are all true from A to Z. Little Edgardo finds himself in a religious school. He must renounce his faith, learn Latin, attend mass. Under the sheets in her dormitory, she silently recites the prayers she has always been taught. The family is not getting better. The father is solemnly welcomed by a cardinal. There are no results. Pius IX does not budge: The child will receive a Catholic education. At times the reluctant convert is plagued with doubts. They don’t last long. The soul obeys contradictory commands. Separated from the world and his family, immersed in a deep and frugal loneliness, Edgardo moves away from his roots. He discovers the profession of another future. A tragedy in slow motion. Meanwhile, Vatican authority is being challenged. His strength is waning. Anger roars. Flags are waving. The sovereign pope does not move a muscle. Italy begins to unite and drift into chaos. Marco Bellocchio opens this intimate fresco with a steady hand and a camera that is confident in its movements. Decades blend in stained glass light. It is a chiaroscuro opera, sometimes melancholic, sometimes thunderous, with violins playing. Amazing things are happening there, hearings, trials, tears and screams. Solid and weathered as a period chest, the film moves at a steady pace with efficiency and finesse, full of controlled lyricism. Bellocchio has an impressive voice. A very beautiful picture book. Melodrama will not die. He is right a thousand times. Amine. E. NEGATIVE.

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Marguerite Theoreme – Seeing

The drama of Anna Novion, 1 hour 52

Marguerite is a student in the mathematics department of the École Normale Supérieure. She feels so at home there that she walks around the corridors in slippers. There’s a catch to her promotion: she’s the only girl. This did not prevent him from dedicating his thesis to the Goldbach conjecture, a problem that has never been resolved. Here, at the boardroom, he presents his show publicly. A simple mistake detected by a researcher is enough to collapse the entire building. We must change the subject. No way. Marguerite slams the door. First. Four years in vain. Another universe awaits the young lady. You need to find a place to stay, find a roommate, find money. Don’t worry about that last point: He’ll make a living playing mahjong in secret rooms run by Asians. Her roommate will be a dancer and spoiled. Marguerite wants the same thing.
He goes out. Drinks. Flirting. This freedom stuns him. A little serious. Sleeping and being hungover is okay for a while. He repainted the studio’s walls black to cover them with chalk equations. These formulas mix the world and arrange it harmoniously. It turns into art and poetry. The hero is helped in his studies by a fellow student from Oxford who plays the trombone. You don’t need to invent the theory of relativity to predict that these two will fall into each other’s arms. Marguerite’s Theorem It is a story of passion.
we are between I will hunt And An extraordinary man. Ella Rumpf is a quiet, introverted and knowledgeable person. Higher education in French cinema is successful as described Royal RoadIt was about Polytechnique. E. NEGATIVE.

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The Boy and the Heron– You can see

Animation by Hayao Miyazaki, 2:04

“Miyazaki’s last film”: this is how we present it The Boy and the Heron A new work from the master of Japanese animation. As if this was going to be his “testament” movie to add even more value to it. The person concerned did not make any comments. His previous works the wind is blowing (2013), which already had autobiographical overtones – the man was born in 1941, his family built airplanes – realistically evoked the Second World War in Japan. The Boy and the HeronWhile it takes on the subject of war, it expands it into the wider, dreamlike universe of a director who is never short of imagination. The war takes its toll from the first images: Mahito wakes up to the screams of sirens announcing an attack on Tokyo. The little boy runs after his father towards the town and hospital where his mother worked and died. Everything is fire, terror and destruction. This first epic scene contrasts with the second scene, in which we see 11-year-old Mahito arriving with his newlywed father to a village where his stepmother is waiting for him. The filmmaker’s talent is on display to portray a green countryside, a manor surrounded by nature, and a mysterious tower collapsed among brambles and ivy. Beauty invades the screen as a heron flies past the young boy. This bird will soon turn out to be a kind of Jiminy Cricket. Ideas inspire the mind of the hero, who cannot find a place for himself neither in his new home nor at school. It would be another world where his mother would be. Mahito will go look for him. The story therefore definitely veers into fantasy. “There are the most dead”says one of the characters to Mahito. “The world is a living entity infested with mold and insects.”, said another. There is something truly twilight about this last film; a dark tone that remains throughout, despite some humorous touches and the poetry inherent in the Japanese universe. Therefore it is not aimed at younger audiences. A film about grief can also be seen as an anthem celebrating human resources and resilience in the face of adversity. “Is the world beautiful or ugly?” . F.D.

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Inside – You can see

The drama of Vasilis Katsoupis, 1 hour 45

But it seems so Insidenot the american version Vecés were closed from the inside Patrice Leconte’s feature film debut. Here, not the living rooms, but the entire apartment is closed from the inside. Nemo finds himself trapped there. A seasoned burglar and art thief breaks in with the help of an invisible hacker who remotely disables the security system. But when everything goes wrong, the intruder is left alone and trapped like a mouse. Nemo is played by Willem Dafoe. A work of art in itself, somewhere between Shakespeare’s mad man and the Green Goblin. With his rough-hewn face and distorted body, he resembles Egon Schiele’s drawings scattered throughout the apartment. You can see the Manhattan skyline through the large bay windows (shatterproof double glass). Nemo doesn’t have much time to be ecstatic. In a cruel irony, this overprotected connected house turns into a prison full of dangers. Heating is on. The water no longer flows. The gas is cut off. Refrigerator Macarena is talking or playing but there is no food. The only edible product is caviar. Nemo eats with a scoop while watching television. Images captured by security cameras appear on the screen. We see a cleaning lady wandering up and down the building’s floors, distant and indifferent. For his first fiction film, Greek director Vasilis Katsoupis directs an involuntary and radical incarceration, a return to wilderness in a high-tech and hyper-civilized environment. Nemo fights to survive. He licks the walls of the freezer to avoid dying of thirst. The toilet cannot be used without water. Nemo ends up in his underwear. He goes crazy, draws pictures on the walls, talks to himself, and tells the recipe for pasta cooked in cold water. The luxury apartment is worn out day by day and looks like a dump. Inside It is a metaphysical nightmare. And Nemo is a Pascalian or Beckettian hero. The good days will not come back. SPOUSE

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Flo – Avoid

Biography of Géraldine Danon, 2 hours 11

Errors navigation for the purposes of a movie on sail, there is nothing to be disturbed. Lighting, framing, weather. except for sailors who would realize the impropriety of having his character. Florence Arthaud to the harbor in the trade winds? And in the final scene of Géraldine Danon’s endless feature film dedicated to the sailor, the actress must pay attention to this, too. Stéphane CaillardWho played – certainly with passion – the first and only female winner of the solo transoceanic Route du rhum race in 1990, falling overboard to starboard but watching her sailboat drift away towards port? The night is dark. There is a scene in the film where Florence Arthaud’s life actually almost turns upside down off the coast of the Cape of Corsica on Saturday, October 29, 2011. Before disappearing completely, less than four years later, at the age of 57, during a helicopter crash in Argentina on March 9, 2015. The “little bride of the Atlantic” inspires girls and boys to surpass themselves thanks to her exploits at sea, but loses her life in the air: it is a tragic paradox. This is biographical another thing. The extraordinary journey of a record-breaking man, full of balance and courage, followed by Géraldine Danon in the oceans Drags. Flo is an exercise in scientific cinema mixed with chronology, which is the fault of most biopics. Géraldine Danon describes her hero’s life like a shopping list. What did the director want to show with this portrait? So what’s the point of taking over the life of such a flamboyant woman and reducing her to this string of pearls? Except perhaps to prove that a woman can live and destroy herself just as arrogantly as a man. It would have been a great show if a script, a visual and a direction had been used. Floyet it is not entirely in vain. After an hour and a half of waiting, the beauty and excitement of ocean racing finally takes over. IS

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