the biopic of a great avant-garde artist, played by the whimsical and tortured Charlotte Le Bon

Critique Biopic by Céline Sallette, with Charlotte Le Bon, Damien Bonnard, John Robinson (France, 1h38). In theaters October 9 ★★★☆☆

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An artist, an avant-garde, a warrior, but also a wounded woman who frees herself. For her first feature film, actress Céline Sallette attempts to understand the visual artist Niki de Saint Phalle (1930-2002) and adopts the form of the kaleidoscope to depict the period marking the explosion of her inspiration. Without the works of art (Céline Sallette did not obtain the rights) but with the recognizable iconography: the fur cap, the rifle shooting on paintings… Charlotte Le Bon, whimsical and tortured, is of all shots, in increasingly bright and colorful settings. There is here, sometimes constrained or too wise, a true impulse to narrate the shattering and splinters of a life.