“Without filter”, “The Court of Miracles”, “Chicken fries”, “Smile”… The films on the bill

THE MORNING LIST

The comedies hold the poster, the Palme d’or Without filterby Swede Ruben Ostlund, The Court of Miraclesby Carine May and Hakim Zouhani, but also a documentary thriller, Chicken friesby Jean Libon and Yves Hinant, society films, The Sixth Childby Léopold Legrand, and The sun too close, of Brieuc-Carnaille. Without forgetting the resumption of tender passions (1983), James L. Brooks’ five-time Academy Award-winning film.

“The Court of Miracles”: an eco-friendly school, to the rescue of diversity

Here is a schoolgirl fiction that puts its finger precisely where it hurts. A society in which inequalities are widening and which weighs with all its weight and all its ills on the school. This subject, the authors of The Court of Miracles, Carine May, who was a teacher, and Hakim Zouhani, who was an animator, know him well. While they both grew up in Aubervilliers (Seine-Saint-Denis), they shot a handful of films there, long or short (Street of the cities in 2011, The Trip to Panama, in 2013…), which brought them to notice.

Here we are at the Jacques-Prévert school, somewhere in Seine-Saint-Denis. Zahia (Rachida Brakni), the principal, despairs of the downgrading of the establishment, of the non-mixedness which has ended up prevailing there, of the management of indigence to which her task is reduced.

The news of the construction of a building complex intended for the upper middle classes nearby gave him hope on the issue of student recruitment. It seems however, after adaptation by the town hall of the school map, that the subdivision will depend on a brand new establishment, handpicked for educational innovation.

The fiction really arrives here, when Zahia and a young green teacher (Anaïde Rozam) throw themselves headlong into a “green school” project. to compete with their gleaming competitor… Jacques Mandelbaum

“The Court of Miracles”, French film by Carine May and Hakim Zouhani. With Rachida Brakni, Anaïde Rozam, Disiz, Gilbert Melki, Mourad Boudaoud (1h34).

“Chicken fries”: documentary thriller with Belgian sauce

Born in 1985, the Franco-Belgian documentary television program “Strip-tease” has shown for more than thirty years the tragicomic tics of our daily lives. Each episode has its own environment: “Merchants of Tapie”, for example, in a business school launched by the famous businessman. These moral films missed nothing of our failings, our failed ambitions, our obsessions, our bad tastes until in 2012 many viewers waved the red flag of voyeurism following the broadcast of the report “Desperately looking for a shepherdess”.

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