To help you make your choices, here are the 3 films of the week best rated by the press and spectators on AlloCiné!*
THE 3 BEST FILMS ACCORDING TO THE PRESS:
1st: Hit The Road – 3.9/5
“Visually dazzling, filmed in grandiose landscapes, this road movie thrills and overwhelms with the intelligence and originality with which it deals with the painful subject of exile.” By Stéphanie Belpeche (The Sunday Journal)
“By asserting itself as a game, a series of performances for the camera, the film arouses flamboyant feelings. In the musical passages, the characters transcend their role to mimic the song of one or another and transform themselves through dance.” By Olivia Cooper-Hadjian (Cahiers du Cinéma)
2nd tie: My Afghan family – 3.7/5
“Michaela Pavlatova directs a remarkable animated film about a young woman who, out of love, chooses to settle in Afghanistan. The filmmaker honors, with modesty, the struggle of a young woman against liberticidal traditions.” By Olivier De Bruyn (Les Echos)
“Two worlds face each other in this light, serious, funny, unexpected, strong film. Drama? Comedy? Let’s just say it’s a drama, that’s all.” By François Forestier (L’Obs)
2nd tie: Ghost Song – 3.7/5
“Ghost Song is much more than a documentary. It is an immersive and fascinating cinematic experience where the colors and sounds of the images tell the story of the desire for freedom.” By Laurent Cambon (aSee-aLire.com)
“Bourgeois and marginalized but few winners, ghosts and a certain energy of despair compose this beautiful haunting song about a world on the edge of the precipice.” By Jacques Morice (Telerama)
THE 3 BEST FILMS ACCORDING TO VIEWERS:
1st: The Collini Affair – 4.1/5
“Remarkably constructed, L’Affaire Collini is fascinating to watch, with the added bonus, which doesn’t spoil anything, of the very high quality of light and photography that we owe to the Polish Jakub Bejnarowicz.” By velocio
“A captivating and moving film. The images are breathtakingly beautiful and the actors play their roles brilliantly. A film that I will never forget, certainly one of the best I have seen!” By Violet R.
2nd: Downton Abbey II: A New Era – 3.8/5
“Humor is very present in this successful adaptation, as well as emotion. The confrontation between the British and the French, during the stay of the first on the Riviera, is a delight.” By sydney
“A pure delight. So happy to find them all despite a few quickly outdated shots! Sublime sets and costumes of course.” By sydney
3rd: hit the road – 3.6/5
“The actors are all perfect with a special mention for the little boy who looks like he came out of “Zazie dans le métro”, images of extreme poetry from the foreground and full of little nothings that make a great film.” By Bart Sampson
“It’s a beautiful first film which tells the road movie of an Iranian family who makes a mysterious exodus by car through magnificent landscapes remarkably enhanced.” By Coric Bernard
* According to the ratings of the AlloCiné barometer, on Friday April 29, 2022, for films released in theaters on Wednesday April 27 with at least 10 reviews for the top press and 50 ratings for the top viewers. These two tops do not include films already released once or several times in France.