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A Complete Unknown 2024
Franchement, le travail abattu par Timothée Chalamet pour s'inspirer d'un grand artiste et l'incarner à l'écran est impressionnant. Dans certaines scènes, on aurait vraiment cru que c'était bien Vincent Lacoste à l'écran.
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Holy Cow 2024
Un pur film Fémis avec un petit côté Office du Tourisme de la Franche-Comté... mais c'est parfaitement réalisé. La spécificité mène à l'universel, et le choix de finir le film en nous épargnant les parties inévitables de ce genre d'histoires qu'on connaît par cœur, c'est courageux (surtout pour un premier film) et très bien vu.
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My King 2015
Did not expect to love this so much. Intense, melodramatic but also very funny. The acting is the film's biggest strength : both Bercot (who won at Cannes) and Cassel give electrifying performances as a couple falling in love and the abusive, unhealthy realtionship that's born out of that. That makes it sound dreary, but one of the things I appreciate is how Maïwenn comes back to how well these two characters work together, how exhilarating life becomes in the…
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Enormous 2019
This review may contain spoilers. I can handle the truth.
A truly strange film, and a very uncomfortable one to watch for me. Jonathan Cohen's character, the ostensible protagonist, is engaged in truly despicable behaviour (impregnating his wife who doesn't want to have children without her knowing), which I do think the film recognizes, but it's still treated as kind of wacky and funny... and when the film shifts towards Marina Foïs, it ends up with a pretty pat "isn't creating life beautiful, even if the circumstances suck" ending which…
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