Cinema. “Juliette in Spring”, with Izia Higelin: the weight of secrets

Screenplays that explore family ties are legion in cinema. It’s all a question of looks, sensitivity, delicacy, empathy or violence. Or both, but the exercise is then more virtuoso. And yet the challenge is admirably met here with Blandine Lenoir’s latest opus.

Juliette (Izia Higelin) is in a deep depression. We won’t know why…

Hidden secret

She seeks refuge and comfort in her family, after her father (Jean-Pierre Darroussin), a man in whom we sense a definitive wound, a volcanic sister (Sophie Guillemin) managing her household as best she can and an extramarital affair. colorful (of which not much is hidden from us…), a mother (Noémie Lvovski) who left the family home to live an artistic destiny as a painter of questionable talent just like the chosen subject…, a grandmother (Liliane Rovère) who “seems” to have gone somewhere else a little, a whole universe which, ultimately, will be of no help to poor Juliette. Especially since everyone is hiding the same secret from him…

Heartbreaking and funny

Carried by a cast of formidable relevance, the story is embellished with detours towards the baroque with this lover who disguises himself as a stuffed animal, or this neighbor who adopts a duckling and finally this cat who only falls from the gutter in fearsome meows. It’s moving and sometimes amusing, it has a simplicity of tone that hits the mark, a comedy of feelings in which themes such as love, sexuality, mourning, motherhood, one’s place in life intersect. family, depression too. The perfectly successful adaptation of the graphic novel by Camille Jourdy entitled: Juliette, the ghosts return in spring. An entire program !

Robert Pénavayre

Juliette in Spring a film by Blandine Lenoir

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