the essential
Every Wednesday, a programmer or theater director from Toulouse or its surrounding area gives us his selection of films of the week. This week, Pascal Recalde from the Utopia Tournefeuille cinema, gives us his choices on the releases for this Wednesday, October 9.
It’s a very classic film in its form and very necessary. I find the journey of Lee Miller, the photographer who first photographed the horror of the Nazi extermination camps, extraordinary. Londoner of American origin, model, muse of Man Ray, living in a privileged bourgeois environment, her awareness of what was happening at the time and of the Nazi horror is remarkable. It’s like, “I can’t miss it, I can’t not go.” With courage, she defied and circumvented conventions and prohibitions. A woman photographer was then not allowed to go to the front. She went to Normandy after the landing and then, as the war ended, she wasn’t content with that. She went to see what was happening in Germany, becoming the first woman to enter the Buchenwald and Dachau camps when they were liberated in 1945. It is a great, classic cinema film, but the extraordinary destiny of this woman is is enough in itself. Kate Winstlet, who created the film and is also its producer, wanted to tell this story at all costs. Magical, she plays Lee Miller with strength and intensity.
Another remarkable woman’s story. I haven’t seen this Céline Sallette film but I’m interested because this film is not a biopic, but the genesis of an artist. It tells the story of how Niki de Saint Phalle went from the model she was at 20 to the avant-garde artist. And this, through creation and art which allowed him to overcome the trauma suffered in his childhood. And that is magnificent.
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“The story of Souleymane”
This film by Boris Lojkine was presented at Cannes. It’s a hard, upsetting but also necessary film about these migrant people, without papers, who work while being exploited in jobs that no one wants to do… After seeing this film, I hope that we will no longer have a burger delivered at midnight by a poor guy on a bike… Or at least we will consider the thing differently.
One month before the American elections, this portrait of Donald Trump also seems important to me. Way to realize what the future of the world would be if he were elected president of the USA again…
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