Francid, 2039. One night, activists hunted by the State disappear without a trace. Among them, Julia Bombarth who, when she wakes up, discovers herself locked in a completely unknown world on the mysterious Planet B. This is the pitch for the new film by Aude Léa Rapin, director discovered in 2019 at the Critics’ Week with his first feature, Heroes never diea road movie in Bosnia with Antonia Buresi and Adèle Haenel.
Casting
Pour Planet Bthe director called on another Adèle, Exarchopoulos : « The choice of Adèle was obvious very early on, and it was around her that we built the group of captives. ” Indeed, Aude-Léa Rapin wants to build a heterogeneous group which, beyond each individuality, makes it possible to reflect the state of the world outside the prison. The director opens the casting to the younger generation – Yassine Stein, Amin Hamidou, Grace Siri or Paul Beaurepaire – as well as to more established actresses like India Hair.
As for Souheila Yacoub, who shines this year in Dune 2 et Women on the balconyit is in the theater that the director really discovers her: “ In the room All birds by Wajdi Mouawad and from then on it was obvious to me. His instinctive, very complete approach helped propel the character of Nour into all its epic dimension. » The Franco-Rwandan actress Eliane Umuhire, Jonathan Couzinié (already in Heroes never die) or Théo Cholbi (Eat the Night), complete this truly successful casting that the director led with her director Judith Chalier.
Anticipation
If the film is a anticipatory storythe director, very concerned by the excesses of clashes between civil society and the police, fed it with current conflicts: “ All the reasons that drive Planet B are already at work: surveillance, pollution, the hell of exile, the rise of extremes… » A big reader of science fiction novels, she has also drawn on several feature-length fiction films. So, Punishment Park by Peter Watkins and the series The Prisoner allowed him to question the prison world, police and judicial violence against political opponents while Get Out by Jordan Peele or Truman Show by Peter Weir inspired him on the concept of confinement. Aude-Léa Rapin also readily cites Blade Runner et Alien by Ridley Scott in particular in the artistic aspect and lighting of the film.
Finally, she specifies: “ The sons of man really struck me for the images of impoverishment which no longer occurs on the margins, but in the heart of cities. » Alfonso Cuarón’s feature film, released in 2006, is considered a reference in the field. “ These references were stirred up during the writing, they guided me to keep the promise of a political science fiction film », insists the director. If this anticipation film is political, it is also deeply feminine in a world where women are rare: “ I have always regretted that this literature which opened the doors of imagination to me was so little or not at all embodied by women. […] This played a major role in my desire to take hold of the genre, to inscribe Planet B in this vein of the genre, an anticipation thriller but carried by female characters. »
Resumption of the Week: The Last of the Mohicans
This week, comes out in theaters, The Last of the Mohicansone of Michel Mann’s masterpieces. At the beginning of the 90s, this American director who was already making a name for himself on television (the series Miami Vice) like in the cinema (The Loner, Manhunter), embarks on the adaptation of the famous novel by James Fenimore Cooper. The story begins in 1757, on the Hudson border, while the French and English are fighting over territories in the New World. In the middle of this conflict, we find three men, the last of a people in extinction, that of the Mohicans. Michel Mann, who until then had rather distinguished himself in urban thrillers, successfully launched a major adventure film shot entirely in natural settings, notably in Chimney Rock State Park, located in North Carolina. .
In the background, a great love story also plays out between Nathanael (Daniel Day-Lewis), a European orphan raised by the Mohicans and Cora Munro (Madeleine Stowe), daughter of Colonel. We find, in the casting, many Native American actors like Wes Studi (Dances with Wolves) but also the French Patrice Chéreau in the role of General Montcalm. Michel Mann collaborates again with the director of photography Dante Spinotti whom he will meet again in 2009 for Public Enemies. Finally, to accompany his virtuoso staging, the director calls on composer Trevor Jones who delivers an unforgettable soundtrack. Without a doubt, one of the great films of the 7th art to (re)discover in theaters since December 25.
Still showing
My inseparable
D’Anne-Sophie Bailly. 1 h 34
” Mona lives with her thirty-year-old son, Joël, who is ”late”. He works in a specialized establishment, an ESAT, and passionately loves his colleague Océane, who also has a disability. While Mona knows nothing about this relationship, she learns that Océane is pregnant. The close relationship between mother and son falters. “Director Anne-Sophie Bailly offers, at the end of the year, a particularly successful first film. Its screenplay focuses on a mother-son relationship at a time of important changes in their lives. The film is directed by Laure Calamy , as generous as ever, opposite her, two disabled actors, Charles Peccia-Galletto and Julie Froger, are justly impressive.
Nosferatu
The Robert Eggers. 2h12
” Young Thomas Hutter is sent to the mountains of Transylvania, in the Carpathians, by his master to finalize a deal with Count Orlok. However, he soon realizes that Orlok is a vampire who has his eyes set on his own wife, Ellen. ” In turn, Robert Eggers – The Witch, The Northman – tackles the myth of Dracula with this remake of Nosferatu by Friedrich Wilhelm Murnau released in 1922. Without matching the versions of his elders, that of Murnau like that of Herzog in 79 or Coppola in 1992, Eggers manages to infuse what makes his trademark into this bloodsucking character: a lot of darkness, faith and belief in myths. The atmosphere of the film (sets and costumes) is in tune. Finally, Robert Eggers makes Lily-Rose Depp (Ellen Hutter) the heroine of this “feminist” version of the story.
Pretty pretty
From Diastema. 1:56 a.m.
” From Paris to Rome in the 1970s, the destiny of a broke writer collides with that of a rising cinema star. Their path to love will be strewn with pitfalls, misunderstandings and twists and turns. A whirlwind musical comedy! ” Screenwriter of Coluche the story of a guy or from Angel FaceDiastème, whose real name is Patrick Asté, is also a director. After The noise of people around or A Frenchman, he tackles the musical comedy genre with this new feature film. It brings together, on screen, Clara Luciani, José Garcia and even William Lebghil, with a special mention to Laura Felpin who sings with talent.
