Skin 2022: In the mad Max’s father we saw the return of a genius, a funny donkey and Marion Cotillard

Three Thousand Years Awaiting You by George Miller (No Competition)

A post-apocalyptic western, a fantastic comedy with witches, an animated film about dancing penguins … George Miller has always been in a radically different genre. Before Fury – His Mad Max Prequel: The Road to Wrath – The director continues his search. For the three thousand years that await you, he draws inspiration from myths and fairy tales to present the work somewhere between intimate drama and epic film.

While traveling in Istanbul, Alitea (Tilda Swinton) buys a blue bottle in the Turkish market. Arriving at the hotel, he finds that there is a gin (Idris Elba) in the object. To maintain his freedom he has to fulfill three desires, but it does not seem to impress the woman in front of him. To convince him, Ginny tells him about his past, thousands of years ago.

There are two films in one Three thousand years are waiting for you. The first is behind closed doors: spectators witness a meeting between two characters locked in a hotel room. The second is a fantastic adventure, visually inventive with many special effects where creatures meet mythological figures such as Queen Sheba or King Solomon. George Miller goes to the end of his concept, even allowing himself some absurd reversals without making fun of himself.

Thomas Desroches

Arno Desplechin’s brother and sister (competition)

Gossip announced him as the chairman of the jury. Ultimately, it is “only” in the competition that Marion Cotillard shines this year. And for the third time in his career, in front of Arno Despleჩin’s camera, Les Fantômes d’Ismaël (festival opening in 2017) and Comment je me am controversial (My Sex Life), after one of his first roles. cinema.

Arguing, here is still a question. But in the family realm, like in a Christmas fairy tale. Maybe even more violence and words that are painful as long as we play a role in maintaining the appearance. On stage for him, the actor. Publicly a teacher for him became a writer. But where does this a priori irreparable hatred between Alice and Louis come from? Can a tragic event allow them to connect with each other?

From the opening scene, the sibling hits hard and announces a color, very dark, that follows. But the sequel manages to accomplish it with just a little touch. When two main characters, for example, face the case of their parents. If he can quickly name the origins of the break between Alice and Louis, with his very pronounced literary style, Arno Desplechin could be disappointed with the resolution, despite the crude compositions by Marion Cotillard and Melville Pupo.

Maximilian Pieretti

A Wonderful Morning by Mia Hansen-Love (Directors’ Biweekly)

There is a lot of sweetness, melancholy, melancholy and life instinct in this chronicle of the daily life of a young woman who endures the severe illness of her father with neurodegeneration, while at the same time living sometimes stagnant but passionate. Still saving.

Under the direction of Mia Hansen-Lavla, the icon of Lea Seidou is unrecognizable, a normal mother, an acting woman, and no longer an object of desire, a heroine torn by conflicting emotions. Beside him, Pascal Gregor is stunning, in the skin of this degraded former philosopher who was let go by his brain and then body.

A story of mourning that the director personally experienced, which also speaks to the transmission and renewed awakening. Special mention to Nicole Garcia, in the shoes of a pragmatic, cheerful and loyal mother.

Laetia Ratane

Le Petit Nicolas by Amandine Fredon & Benjamin Massoubre (Special Testimonials)

Here, again, little Nicholas! Just a few months after the live-action feature film by Jean-Paul Rouvis and Audrey Lahm, the protagonist of Goskin and Sempe returns to the movies … in the most amazing animated film. Because it is not so much a pure adaptation as a history that recalls his creations and where Alain Chabat and Laurent Lafitte deliver their voices to its two creators.

Described as a childhood anthem and subtitled “What Do We Expect to Be Happy?”, The feature film is therefore a film about Le Petit Nicolas, accompanied by respect for its creators and comics in general. Everything in visual style, ultra faithful to her model, which will surely delight fans, young and old alike. But this alternation required a more consistent rhythm between the two levels of the story, as the transition from one to the other makes the whole unequal sometimes even if the emotion eventually wins out. And that the result, as the protagonist would say, is first and foremost a “funny owl.”

Maximilian Pieretti

12th Night by Dominic Mall (Cannes premiere)

A thriller like no other that risks turning the situation upside down, The Night of 12 is Dominic Molly’s new film (Harry, A Friend Who Wishes You Goodness, Lemming, Just Beasts), who has chosen to send us a nasty investigation. Unresolved by judicial police. This investigation into the murder of Clara, a young woman who was burned alive one night when she was returning home after a party, goes deep into Johann, the investigator in charge of the case.

Despite the brutality and violence of the murder at the center of the investigation – the story of which is based on part of Pauline Guena’s book “18.3 – The Year in PJ” – La nuit du 12 is imbued with true sweetness and greatness. The sensitivity that arises from its chief translator Bastien Boulogne. As the list of suspects grows, the investigation will delve deeper into the policeman in his flesh and question him about the world around him and the constant violence against women.

Each stage of the investigation hinders him a little more and also brings us back to a bitter taste and a sense of helplessness in the face of the singularity and charm that constitutes an unsolved criminal case. Thanks to her excellent writing, hypnotic staging and sincere and involved actor, La nuit du 12 turns out to be a sensitive, visceral and attractive thriller.

Megan Shock

Bodice by Marie Kreutzer (Un Certain Regard)

She is no longer the perfect princess embodied by the divine Rome Schneider. Nor is he the protagonist in the full awakening of the feelings of the latest series of TF1. Marie Kreutzer’s sober watch is aged and carefully observed, still years ago because of her son’s mourning, Franz’s grief and commitment to his rank, the heaviness of his voluminous dresses and chignons.

But he is also in a phase of rebellion, lying on the ground, smoking and insulting, ready at any time to flee and escape. Iconoclastic and feminist, this fantasy portrait of the Empress of Austria is simply breathtaking, embodied by the explosive Vicky Cripps who have not yet completed our explosion.

Laetia Ratane

There are always two faces. ᲓCorrector Marie Kreutzer Leaving aside the illustration of a dazzling, perfect princess. He prefers a rougher, more unusual size, which is constantly judged by his weight and age. Oppressed, the Empress rises to her feet. He does not obey, he imagines discomfort as a teenager who is at war with the authorities.

In this new version of Sissi, Vicky Cripps Proves his great talent. It transforms a character familiar to everyone and seen many times to offer another question that fits perfectly in our time. It is impossible not to think of a rock-and-roll portrait of Marie-Antoinette signed by Sophia Coppola in 2006, but the filmmaker offers a style that is always personal and not without humor.

Thomas Desroches

Clement Cogitore’s Golden Gut (Critics’ Week)

Ramses, 35, practices divination at the Golden Gut in Paris. A clever manipulator and a bit of a poet on the edges, he created a business of solid comfort. The arrival of children from the streets of Tangier, as dangerous as it is, upsets the balance of his business and the whole neighborhood. Until the day when Ramses will have a real vision.

After his second full-length film, the fascinating war film Ni le ciel, ni la terre, by Clement Cogitore, also a visual artist, changes his world and sinks us into the noir and urban films of Gotti d’Ocrot. His story, rich in twist, surprises and captivates at any time. Karim Leklou (seen in Bac Nord and Le Monde est à toi) impresses with this dense and exciting role. We must also emphasize the plastic beauty of the film: Paris is rarely filmed there either, with very beautiful night shots. Release: Coming soon.

Bridget Baronet

El Agua by Elana Lopez Rivera (Directors’ Biweekly)

It’s summer in a small village in southeastern Spain. The storm threatens to re-inflate the river flowing over it. An old popular belief assures us that some women intend to disappear in advance with each new flood because they have “water.” A group of young people trying to escape the summer fatigue, smoking, dancing, striving for each other. In this electric atmosphere, Anna and Jose live in a love story, until the storm breaks …

El Agua, played by the incandescent Luna Pamies, whose first role in a movie showed us the history of a popular belief about which we can not say whether it is pure fiction or inspired by real events. The director explains that these stories were told to him by his grandmother. “This is a fiction I grew up with. I believed my grandmother because she told me about it,” the director explained on the two-day directorial stage.

Film director Elena Lopez Riera explains that she “grew up with these mythologies, with this kind of water of hate and love and everything.” “I was lucky to raise such women and the women I met,” she added. The form of the film is interesting in several respects, especially in that it incorporates sequences of women with face-to-camera images that evoke this popular belief. Also very beautiful are the love scenes between the characters Anna and Jose. Release: Coming soon.

Bridget Baronet