“Libé” guides you through the cinema releases of this Wednesday, September 18. Also with “Rue du Conservatoire”, “Look Back”, “Les Barbares”, “Ni chaînes ni maîtres”, “Toxicily”, the re-release of four film noirs. Trailers to support.
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“My Life My Face” by Sophie Fillières
In her latest endearing and whimsical comedy, Sophie Fillières, who passed away in July 2023, shows the solitary wanderings of her alter ego played by Agnès Jaoui, formidable as a lost and free artist. Read our review and reread our article on the posthumous making of the film.
My life My faceand by Sophie Fillières with Agnès Jaoui, Angelina Woreth, Édouard Sulpice… 1h39
“Speak No Evil” by James Watkins
In an excellent horror film, James Watkins sets up a hellish mechanism between two families who are complete opposites, and whose weekend turns into a nightmare. Read our review.
Speak No Evil by James Watkins, with James McAvoy, Mackenzie Davis… 1h50.
“Rue du Conservatoire” by Valérie Donzelli
The filmmaker follows a young iconoclastic director who stages “Hamlet” for the end of her studies. A mischievous documentary on the creative ferment of a new generation of theater people. Read our review.
Conservatory Street by Valérie Donzelli, documentary, 1h20.
“Seeds of the Wild Fig Tree” by Mohammad Rasoulof
In his clandestinely filmed fiction about a family torn apart by the revolt, “Woman, Life, Freedom,” filmmaker Mohammad Rasoulof oscillates between naturalism and horror. Read our review and reread the joint interview with Mohammad Rasoulof and Golshifteh Farahani.
Seeds of the wild fig tree by Mohammad Rasoulof with Missagh Zareh, Soheila Golestani, Mahsa Rostami… 2h46
“Look Back” by Kiyotaka Oshiyama
The young Japanese filmmaker succeeds in adapting Tatsuki Fujimoto’s inward-looking manga about the friendship between two teenage girls into a beautiful animated medium-length film. Read our review.
Look Back by Kiyotaka Oshiyama (63 minutes). In theaters only on Saturday, September 21 and Sunday, September 22.
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“Toxicily” by François-Xavier Destors
About the victims of pollution in a petrochemical zone in eastern Sicily, the documentary remains on the surface of its ambitious subject. Read our review.
Toxiclyby François-Xavier Destors and Alfonso Pinto (1h18).
“The Barbarians” by Julie Delpy
Despite some touching scenes, Julie Delpy’s comedy about the racism of Breton villagers facing a family of Syrian immigrants falls into the caricature of rurality. Read our review.
The Barbarians by Julie Delpy. With Sandrine Kiberlain, Laurent Lafitte… (1h41)
And also…
“Neither Chains nor Masters” by Simon Moutaïrou
Although it sometimes awkwardly oscillates between duty of remembrance and grand spectacle, the film about a slave hunt in the heart of what is now Mauritius does justice to the oppressed. Read our review.
No chains, no masters by Simon Moutaïrou, with Ibrahima Mbaye Tchie, Benoît Magimel… 1h38.
Four American Black Films
Four American film noirs are being re-released in theaters in restored versions, including the very beautiful The Escapee by Arthur Ripley. Works whose heroes with cursed destinies reflect the violence of the 1940s. Read our review.
