ANDMilie (Yolande Moreau) says stop. Stop her life in the nursing home where she is treated with odious condescension by the director (excellent Alison Wheeler), stop the extremely gloomy promise of a life stuck between her grandchildren and a daughter-in-law ( Marie Gillain) fell under the thumb of a vile little thug (Jonathan Cohen). And at the age of 70, she sets off on the road, behind the wheel of her rental car, flanked by Lynda (Laure Calamy), an unattached caregiver. A single objective: to settle scores with all those who, in their lives, made them suffer these small – and large – daily humiliations, which they have never forgotten.
It is on this sincere framework that Gustave Kervern, proving once again that there is indeed a life after Grolandconstructed by I won't let myself do this anymore, his first solo film, awarded the directing prize at the La Rochelle Fiction Festival last September. A Thelma et Louise du Pas-de-Calais, broadcast this Friday evening on Arte, which places characters, often banally sordid, sometimes touching, on the path of our two outlaws.
The opportunity to offer lovely scores to Anna Mouglalis and Raphaël Quenard, newcomers to the universe between light gray and discreetly yellow vest of Kervern, in the roles of cops as lost as they are moving in pursuit of the two runaways . Or, even more surprising, to place the former president in a wheelchair […] Read more
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