“Christmas at Miller's Point”, “Twenty Gods”, “I Don't Want to Go Anymore, Mom”…

THE MORNING LIST

At the end of the year, spectators will be able to discover Louise Courvoisier's enjoyable comedy, Twenty godsthe “indie” holiday film by American Tyler Taormina, Christmas at Miller's Pointor the feminist column by Noémie Merlant, Women on the balcony. For his part, Antonio Fischetti, member of the editorial staff of Charlie Hebdo, delivers a sort of diary in I don't want to go there anymore mom.

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“Christmas at Miller's Point”: atmospheric painting

Christmas at Miller's Point transports us once again to this country dear to the heart of American filmmaker Tyler Taormina: that of the middle-class suburbs, that of the night which reinvents us, that of childhood which it is always too early to leave. Here, an Italian-American family from Long Island, celebrating their last Christmas Eve under the same roof, which the weakening of the old mother makes inevitable. Producer and director of Ham on Rye (2021), coming-of-age film, the time of a long party on Long Island, and Happer’s Comet (2022), Tyler Taormina confirms himself as an exquisite painter of atmosphere. Transforming a plot on a postage stamp (what are we going to do with the ancestor?) into an elegy for the passing of time and a form of discreet Americana. The turkey. The tree. The warmth of the hearth. The tender hysteria of family love.

That's it, nothing else actually. Yes, the young people who sneak away, in the dead of night, to mortgage their future just a stone's throw from home. They wander in a group in the snowy desert of a provincial town where nothing could ever happen, under the watchful eye of two local cops, among whom we recognize the actor Michael Cera. He was one of the teenagers obsessed with SuperGrave (2007), by Greg Mottola, emanation of the Judd Apatow galaxy, then pope of the new comedy made in the USA. J.Ma.

“Twenty Gods”: olé olé comedy with raw milk

Can we make a delicious, enjoyable and liberating film, against a backdrop of social distress, without falling into pathos or vulgarity? Louise Courvoisier, a Jura filmmaker born in 1994, proves it with Twenty godsfirst feature film, revealed in May at Cannes (Un certain regard) and shot in his native region. Totone (Clément Faveau), 18 years old, with a cigarette in his mouth, is the archetype of the slacker, roaming the village festivals. He finds himself suddenly orphaned, with his little sister, after the death of his father – nothing about the mother, and no tearful photo frame to evoke her. To get by financially, the boy starts making county cheese. He's dreaming! But his two best friends are ready to help him.

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