the essential
Every Wednesday, a programmer or theater director from Toulouse or its surrounding area gives us his selection of films of the week. This week, Jérémy Breta, programmer for the American Cosmograph, gives us his choices on the releases for this Wednesday, January 8.
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“The Room Next Door”
“My first choice is “The Room Next Door”, the first film shot in English by Pedro Almodovar, played by great actresses, Tilda Swinton and Julianne Moore. Shunned at Cannes, he received the Lion d’Or for this film. ‘Or in Venice. More peaceful, less in all directions, “The room next door” is in agreement with its subject: illness, death and the fact of being able to choose one’s death. The Spanish director leaves the pathos. remotely and the film is still as narratively mastered and as complex as ever, even if it seems simple thanks to its fluid staging. As always, we find interwoven stories and returns to the past. sober, gently dramatic without being maudlin and Almodovar treats the subject in his own gently transgressive way…”
“A difficult to identify filmic object from the Chinese director JIa Zhangke, author of “A Touch of Sin”, “Still life”. For 20 years, the director, with his partner Zhao, traveled across China, to do what he called ” a hunt for images”. He met people, filmed places and sometimes even improvised little stories in which he had Zhao play. He stored all of this and during Covid, he realized while watching it all that the together made a curious portrait of China over 20 years with the addition, a bit like in “Boyhood”, the disorder of an actress who we see aging on screen He edited these rushes, shot a last scene in 2002 and the. The result is quite captivating. The first part constitutes a fairly raw documentary on China, then sets up a narrative. Curious and fascinating, the film, even if we don’t understand everything, nevertheless gives us some keys to unravel the Chinese mystery… “
“There, I’m going to bend the rule: “Strip-tease complete” will be released on February 12 in theaters but, given the success it had at Fifigrot, we have it at Cosmograph exclusively for a week, from January 8 to 14 Directed by Jean Libon and Yves Hinant, mischievous directors of the TV show “Strip – tease” and “Ni judge ni submissive” to which is added a collective of directors, “Strip tease complete” produced in TV format aligns, with its very special tone, without comment, five tasty portraits of characters including that of a hypochondriac, father of a director, who digs into his origins to find out what illnesses he has. would be susceptible to contracting, discover other things…”
