Does the sociocultural environment in which we grow up condemn us?
Being born into a family where violence is matched only by prejudice, moral misery and lack of education, is this synonymous with an irrecoverable destiny? For Marvin, these questions can only have one answer: escape.
Looking back to rebuild better
However, it is the memories of little Marvin, who became Martin Clément in Paris, which will paradoxically help him rebuild himself, while he searches them and works on them to extract the material for a possible play.
Memories of humiliation, rejection, constant domination while, as a little boy, in a small poor village in the Vosges, he kept silent about his homosexuality for fear of being further tyrannized.
Ordinary homophobia
The story is known. First of all, sadly because, every day, even today, homophobia claims victims everywhere and it always follows the same cycle of hatred and exclusion. Then, because it is that of Édouard Louis, who told it in 2014 in Ending with Eddy Bellegueule, his moving biographical novel.
In the hands of Anne Fontaine (Dry cleaning), the story therefore became a film, sometimes a little unnecessarily embellished with secondary stories, inventions and added characters. However, the essential remains, highlighted in flashback sequences of cruel naturalism: the dramatic mechanism by which all people who are not like the others find themselves destroyed. Definitely for those who are less fortunate. Because Marvin, in his misfortune, will be lucky, in the opportunity given to him to discover improvisation and theater. And Isabelle Huppert…
Actors and actresses serving the best and the worst.
This is because Anne Fontaine clearly understood what the tool of cinema could bring to such a story: faces. Those that we imagine, while reading, become here those of Finnegan Oldfield, Vincent Macaigne, Charles Berling or Gregory Gadebois, those on whom we read self-loathing, extreme vulnerability, doubt, the negation of one's self. own identity, but also, more fleetingly, love, mutual aid, hope.
Marvin or the Beautiful Education is one of those films that hurts as much as it reassures, because it gives a human face to the worst and the best of humanity. Without this being able to be clearly and definitively demarcated.
Marvin or the beautiful educationto be seen on ICI Télé, December 7, at 11:30 p.m.
The trailer (source: YouTube).
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