Today, it’s cinema in the Midis de Culture! The critics are talking about My life my faceposthumous self-portrait of Sophie Fillières and the sinister Speak no Evil by James Watkins.
“My life, my face”: Agnès Jaoui in the midst of a midlife crisis
Barberie Bichette, who is called Barbie to her great displeasure, may have been beautiful, may have been loved, may have been a good mother to her children, a reliable colleague, a great lover, yes perhaps… But, caught up in the midlife crisis, the heroine played by Agnès Jaoui will run away from her daily life to search for herself, to lose herself… and perhaps to find herself again?
My life my face is the seventh and final feature film by director Sophie Fillières. With this film, the director, who passed away in July 2023, stages a touching posthumous self-portrait. Presented at Cannes last May, My life My face is a testamentary self-portrait segmented into three acts – a comedy, a tragedy, an epiphany.
Critics’ opinions:
- Thierry Chèze : “I loved it My life my face for everything it is not: not something tearful, not something posthumous. It is a living film. In fact, I would say that I liked this film as I like People who doubt by Anne Sylvestre. Its puzzle architecture amazed me, each piece is extremely important. If it weren’t so well written, we could even make sketches out of it. The comedy of the film comes from its rhythm, its embodiment and the more we watch it, the more we like it.“
- Charlotte Garson : “This film is a very good opportunity to enter the unique work of Sophie Fillières. The filmmaker offers us a film with a great offbeat humor, but which integrates doubt, eats itself from the inside with a thermite side. What is beautiful about it is also the friction between this writing which threatens to lose its meaning and the very lively incarnation of Agnès Jaoui.“
The film will be available in theaters from September 18, 2024.
“Speak no Evil” by James Watkins
An American family spends the weekend at the dream property of a charming British family they met on vacation. But what seemed like an idyllic vacation quickly turns into a terrible nightmare.
Remake of 2022 Danish horror film of the same name by Christian Tafdrup, Speak No Evil is the fourth feature film by James Watkins. The director has already distinguished himself in genre cinema by signing two films in a row that were noticed by fans: Eden Lake in 2008, a forest survival, and The Lady in Black in 2012, gothic film starring Daniel Radcliffe fresh from the Harry Potter franchise. Speak No Evil reconnects with the codes of the horror film, but does it do so wisely?
Critics’ opinions:
- Charlotte Garson : “The tension works even if the spring is released only very late – too late perhaps? – in the film. What is interesting is this takeover by the United States of a European film, especially towards the end. There is a double satire in the film, not very subtle but very effective with the question of class and the mockery of positive psychology. Finally, Speak no Evil makes us navigate between genres successfully; between action, horror, remarriage comedy…“
- Thierry Chèze : “It’s a gripping film that manages to create a really strong tension that opens up a lot of perspectives, but the final stretch disappointed me. However, there is still a desire to try something a little societal, through the opposition between these two families who should never meet. There is also this very scathing humor that also makes you feel uncomfortable, in the good sense of the term. For me, it carries the tension – also very well embodied by James McAvoy -. And even if the film sometimes overdoes it, the genre makes it work.”
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The film will be available in theaters from September 18, 2024.
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