“Libé” guides you through the cinema releases for this Wednesday, November 20, with also “Rough Diamond”, “The Choice”, “Hayao Miyazaki and the Heron”, “The Storms”, “The Passion According to Béatrice”, “37: the shadow and the prey. Supporting trailers.
Love at first sight
The Lucrecia Martel retrospective in Beaubourg
The Argentine filmmaker is being honored at the Parisian museum until December 1, in a retrospective which meticulously explores a certain decay of her country, between colonization and the stigmata of dictatorship. Read our interview.
«Lucrecia Martel, cinema beside itself» at the Pompidou center (4th arrondissement) until December 1st.
«Direct action»
Filmed between 2022 and 2023 on the ZAD of Notre-Dame-des-Landes, the documentary by Guillaume Cailleau and Ben Russell builds a valuable theory of action made of patience and daily gestures, modest or decisive. Read our review.
Direct Action by Guillaume Cailleau and Ben Russell (3h33).
“Hayao Miyazaki and the Heron”
In theaters on November 21 and 22 only, Kaku Arakawa's documentary, dedicated to the creation of the will the Boy and the Heron, shows with rare transparency the failures and doubts of the Japanese master. Read our review.
Hayao Miyazaki and the heron by Kaku Arakawa (2 hours). In theaters November 21 and 22 only.
Slack shots
“Rough diamond”
Selected at Cannes, Agathe Riedinger's first feature film takes a psychologizing look at an aspiring starlet, to the point of descending into moralism. Read our review.
Rough diamond by Agathe Riedinger with Malou Khebizi, Idir Azougli, Andréa Bescond… 1h43.
“The Most Precious of Goods”
The animated film by Michel Hazanavicius, about a baby survivor of the Shoah, is being surpassed. Read our review.
The Most Valuable of Goods by Michel Hazanavicius with the voices of Jean-Louis Trintignant, Dominique Blanc, Denis Podalydès… 1 h 21.
“The Passion according to Béatrice”
Following Béatrice Dalle in pursuit of the Italian filmmaker, the documentary oscillates between coquetry and sacralization of its subject. Read our review.
The Passion according to Béatrice by Fabrice Du Welz, with Béatrice Dalle, Clément Roussier… (1h20).
Pity…
«Piece by piece»
Without any rough edges or dramatic issues, the plastic brick version of Pharrell Williams' biopic carries the usual procession of clichés and inept comments but tells absolutely nothing. Read our review.
Piece by Piece de Morgan Neville, avec Pharrell Williams, Morgan Neville, Snoop Dogg… 1h33.
“The Choice”
Gilles Bourdos locks Vincent Lindon, a site manager caught up in an extra-marital affair, in the passenger compartment of his car for a petty-bourgeois closed session without much interest. Read our review.
The Choice by Gilles Bourdos, with Vincent Lindon, Emmanuelle Devos, Micha Lescot… 1 h 16.
And also…
“The Storms”
A fantastic and political parable, Dania Raymond's clumsy but determined film makes ghosts reappear in an Algeria never named. Read our review.
The Storms by Dania Reymond, with Camélia Jordana, Khaled Benaissa… 1h24.
“37: the shadow and the prey”
After a suffocating and effective first half, the thriller, where a lost trucker finds himself stuck with a passenger, loses its rhythm. Read our review.
