Here is our selection of reviews of auteur films for the week of May 1st.
If American films monopolize the screens with “The Fall Guy” and “At the End of the World”, there are little nuggets to be found in the auteur cinema section.
“The Flower of Buriti” by João Salaviza, Renée Nader Messora (4/5)
With Ilda Patpro Krahô, Francisco Hỳjnõ Krahô, Solane Tehtikwỳj Krahô…
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The sublime “The Song of the Forest” by the same João Salaviza, Renée Nader Messora had given them a cinematic existence. “La Fleur de Buriti” extends the gesture with an ethnographic but also historical exploration of the Krahô people, massacred by Europeans who came to appropriate their land and their parrots. The film shows their peaceful resistance when Jair Bolsonaro was definitely trying to take control of the riches of the Amazon. The best part of the film lies in the character of the little girl haunted by past massacres. If you want to forget everything, piss in the river, the village guard tells him, aware that the slow assimilation is already underway – the warriors hunt in the supermarkets, his mother quips. Yannick Vely
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“Limited State” by Nicolas Peduzzi (3/5)
It’s an open secret that Covid has brought to light without any mercy… The race for profitability and the aging of the population have put the French hospital system on the edge of the precipice. Camera in hand and never hidden from patients, Nicolas Peduzzi follows the only psychiatrist at Beaujon hospital in Clichy. Jamal Abdel-Kader tirelessly walks the corridors of the establishment, goes to the bedsides of the sick with assiduity and tries to overcome the numerous failings of the institution. Even if it means bordering on burnout and suffering from back pain, as if he were carrying the whole weight of the world on his shoulders. Yannick Vely
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“A matter of principle” by Antoine Raimbault (2/5)
With Bouli Lanners, Céleste Brunnquell…
Political manipulation, struggles for influence, corruption and… José Bové! Antoine Raimbault did not take the easy route by adapting the book by the former agricultural leader who became a European deputy, witness to a scandal which shook Brussels institutions in 2012 struggling with tobacco lobbies. A lot to say on the subject, perhaps too much when it comes to decoding the mysteries of a political world turned in on itself and its interests. Surely too didactic and too academic in its subject matter, the film masters its political thriller side. Bouli Lanners plays the alien Bové, thrown into the arena of power, with striking mimicry. To have. Fabrice Leclerc
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