THE MORNING LIST
In theaters this week, the re-enchanted story of a teenager watching over her grown-up father, little gems of Russian animation, a striptease stripping our received ideas, and three musketeers with a boy scout spirit and cheerful.
“Normal”: life as if it were beautiful
Somewhere in Ile-de-France, in an unspecified contemporary era, Lucie (Justine Lacroix), 15, and William (Benoît Poelvoorde), her father, have been living on a meager basis since the motorcycle accident that killed the mother, and the multiple sclerosis that William suffers from. Good guy a bit arsouille, weakened by illness, the latter hangs out in jogging and tank tops, is passionate about science fiction and gory video games. Overflowing with affection for his daughter, he makes sure that everything is fine. Lucie, for her part, is not fooled. Her only priority is to keep her father with her as long as possible. That’s why she takes care of everything, runs to school, forgets to take care of herself. The painting could appear miserable. He never is.
Always, with Olivier Babinet, humor, fantasy, poetry slip into the interstices. Two of the director’s previous films (fish sex2020; Swagger2016) proceeded from the same abolition of borders, mixing, without disruptive effect, the real and the fantastic, gravity and lightness, the weight of the social environment and the dreams it motivates. normal is no exception, thwarting and reshaping genres to better blend them into dense and deeply human matter. V. Cau.
French and Belgian film by Olivier Babinet. With Benoît Poelvoorde, Justine Lacroix, Joseph Rozé (1 h 27).
“The Little Hedgehog in the Mist and Other Wonders” : Russian animation jewelry
These Russian animated shorts, visible from an early age, date from the 1960s and 1980s. The Muffle, by Roman Katchanov (1967), animation in pastel volumes, opens wide the floodgates of the imagination. The Little Hedgehog in the mist (1976) is signed by a very big name in animation, Youri Norstein: melancholic and chiseled lyricism, art of engraver, science of chiaroscuro. Once upon a time there was a dog (1983), by Edouard Nazarov, is the funniest film on this programme. A beautiful and peaceful lesson in intelligent cooperation between two inveterate enemies, the dog and the wolf. J. Ma.
Russian animated shorts by Yuri Norstein, Roman Katchanov, Edouard Nazarov and Inessa Kovalevskaya (1967-1989, 40 minutes).
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