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On the fringes of the Venetian festival, several filmmakers are presenting militant and galvanizing works, from the pre-apocalyptic genre film by Aude Léa Rapin to the organic odyssey of Massimo D’Anolfi and Martina Parenti, via the impressive documentary by Hind Meddeb in Sudan.
In the brutal heat, the Venice Film Festival continues its frantic course, firefighters on alert in case of illness, mini personal fans drawn by security guards and red carpet photographers slowly melting under the furious zenith. In this pre-apocalyptic atmosphere, between Spritz spilled on the burning asphalt and Bertrand Bonello reading a book in a shady corner, a race is organized from room to room in search of a nugget that the American giants of the competition have unfairly hidden.
It’s time to take a tour in the shadow of the parallel sections. At the opening of Critics’ Week, we discovered Aude Léa Rapin’s second film, Planet B, who rolls up his sleeves and takes on one of the current challenges of French cinema: making a good genre film. Planet B gleans all the anxieties that linger in the air and in our heads (in 2039, a “total security” law has been passed, democracy is in tatters, an anti-migrant wall is being built in the Mediterranean and the anti-ecologist hunt is in full swing, supported by liberticidal technological innovations) to construct an ambitious fiction that plays on two tables: on the one hand, a band of climate activists find themselves
