THE MORNING LIST
In theaters this week, the latest opus from the prolific Hong Sang-soo transports Isabelle Huppert to a small corner of South Korea where she offers very special services to teach French to amazed locals. Sisters Delphine and Muriel Coulin return with a social fiction where the divergent destinies of two brothers from the same Moselle cradle are written. Finally, Better Man offers a model of an aberrant biopic whose hero, here the successful British singer Robbie Williams, is repainted in the guise of a chimpanzee.
Not to be missed
-“The Traveler”: oriental languages
Follow the flower, her name is Iris (Isabelle Huppert), wears a spring dress and a green vest like the grass of the park where she sometimes finds refuge. Maybe she even appeared here, among the trees. Because no one knows how this elegant woman ended up in South Korea, pretending to be a French teacher, bordering on imposture, intruding into people’s homes, making them talk (and drink), somewhere between a psychologist and a teacher. ceremony.
Alcoholic film in full Dry January, The Travelerby Hong Sang-soo, takes us to the peaks. Because Iris’s “method” has something irresistibly disturbing: she transmits the learning of the language based on the emotions of her students. Huppert’s whimsical presence fits Hong Sang-soo’s cinema like a glove. We have known it since their first collaboration: a free and loving woman in In Another Country (2012), the French star then played a photographer wandering around Cannes in Claire’s Camera (2017).
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