MORNING LIST
After seven months of closure, the cinemas are reopening their doors with a plethora of offers. Cinema critics from World offer you their selection, between zany comedy, sentimental dramas, animated fantasy and ode to biture.
“Mandibles”: surrealism is not dead, follow the fly …
Somewhere in southern France, we don’t know exactly where and when. Two terrifying morons in search of social elevation – Jean Gab and Manu – carry a supposedly illicit substance in a mysterious black briefcase. Without knowing it, they convey a giant fly in the trunk of the beige Merco registered in Switzerland that they have just broken. They end up adopting it.
Then the happy pair will cross on their way a sampling of eternal France, crunched from head to toe, which is enough to enhance the prestige of the two oddballs and even the monstrous Diptera with orange facets that accompanies them. Black farce, sticky, poetic, and so funny. What are the people asking when they come out of the tunnel? Jacques Mandelbaum
“Mandibules”, French film by Quentin Dupieux. With David Marsais, Grégoire Ludig, Adèle Exarchopoulos, India Hair, Roméo Elvis, Coralie Russier, Bruno Lochet… (1 h 17).
“DNA”: mourning, a beautiful slice of life
On the supercharged scene of epidermal effusion and related ill-treatment (The actresses’ ball, My king …), Maïwenn operates with DNA a graceful step aside. On the death of a beloved patriarch, at the confluence of France and Algeria, a whole family goes into a spin and in search of a redefinition of its place. Mourning may well be a consummate dramaturgical exercise, but it should not be – nor should it be missed. We like here the finesse of touch, the pain that makes you laugh, the royal cast. J. Ma.
“ADN”, French film by Maïwenn. With Fanny Ardant, Louis Garrel, Maïwenn, Marine Vacth, Dylan Robert… (1 h 30).
“Drunk”: midlife crisis and liver attack
Crisis of the fifties, crisis of Danish social democracy, liver crisis. Thomas Vinterberg’s film is an ode to biture seen as a fairly practical way of not bumping into reality. This is how four depressed teachers decide to live and work in a state of intoxication scientifically guaranteed by a blood alcohol level of 0.5 grams, the threshold necessary to see life in pink. Obviously, they will not stick to such good resolutions. Kidnapped, funny, tender, Drunk unchallenged won the César and then the Oscar for best foreign film. Philippe Ridet
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