Skin 2022: We saw a detective comedy with Vincent Lacoste and two new palm favorites

Le Parfum Vert Nicolas Parizer (Directors’ Biweekly)

After Le Grand Jeu and Alice and the Mayor, Nicolas Parizer returns with a completely different new film presented at the end of the directors’ Monday. Green perfume Is a burlesque spy comedy that borrows its suspense and detective aspect from Hitchcock’s cinema and draws narrative inspiration from Tintin’s world.

A protagonist close to Martin, a character played by Vincent Lacoste. This comedian from Comédie-Française, in the middle of the divorce process, helplessly witnessed the death of one of his partners on stage in full, and it turns out that, although he is the number one suspect, it turns out to be murder.

Martin then begins a folkloric investigation with Claire (Sandrine Cyberlen), a comic book designer who avoids professional failure and family pressure for this insane adventure. Like Fabri Lucini and Anais Demostier in “Alice and Mary,” Nicolas Parizer once again combines an unexpected but terribly tasty and effective duo into a beautifully written and very enjoyable tale.

Megan Shock

Close by Lukas Dhont (Official Contest)

In 2018, Lucas Dont will present his first film, Girl, in Cannes, and wins the Golden Camera. Today he returns with a second feature film, CloseSubmitted in the competition. It tells the story of a passionate friendship between two 13-year-olds, Leo and Remy. The first one suddenly decides to distance themselves when their closeness becomes the subject of ridicule in college. This separation will lead to a devastating event.

Close He gets everything in its path. Lucas Dont offers melodrama that is both intense and restrained. The director uses silence, gaze and bodies to better tell a story that can be done without words. The film is performed by an excellent actor. There are, first of all, two proven actors, Leah Drucker and Emily Decken – each of her on-screen appearances is intense, but above all two magnetic revelations: Gustave de Wael and Eden Dambrin. Heart attack.

Thomas Desroches

Suffering in the Islands of Alberta Serra (Competition)

Three years after winning the jury prize, Albert Serra is in the official competition in the Freedom section. Suffering on the islands (Or peace). And this is a real cinematic experience offered by a Spanish filmmaker and which definitely splits the sentence because it is radical and psychedelic.

The film, with lingering tunes, follows the labyrinth of de Roller (the astonished Benoit Magimel) on the island of Tahiti in French Polynesia, the High Commissioner of the Republic, the representative of the French state. This sharp, cynical and calculating man, who tries to put in the pockets of the population with good speeches and false promises, is in danger of revolt and great outrage of the population after persistent rumors about a possible resumption of France’s nuclear tests.

Amidst the pressures of the population and the threats of the government, de Roller feels that the island engulfs him when he falls into the strange and hypnotic paranoia of the island as conceived by Albert Serra, in addition to forced and almost grotesque dialogues that are absurd. And an unjust world.

Megan Shock

Kaftan Blue (in some sense)

Halim has long been married to Mina, with whom he runs a traditional kaftan shop in Saleh Medina, Morocco. The couple has always lived by Halim’s secrets, his homosexuality, the silence of which he has learned. Mina’s illness and the arrival of a young apprentice will upset this balance. United in love, each will help each other deal with their fears.

Like the kaftan fabric that gives its name to the film, Le Bleu du caftan is a very delicate, soft work that modestly approaches the theme of homosexuality in Morocco. It is based on a beautiful script that takes time to reveal the characters step by step. Strong scenes emerge from the film. The interpretation of the trio that make up the film is always correct: Saleh Bakri, Lubna Azabal and Ayub Mission. Le Bleu du caftan is directed by Maria Tuzan (formerly directed by Adam) and written by Much Loved, Haut et fort.

Bridget Baronet

Roberto Sorogoyen as Besta (Cannes premiere)

After a shocking madness, Spaniard Rodrigo Sorogoien returns to a completely different genre with the scary As Bestas. The story of a French couple played by Dennis Menoche and Marina Fois settled in a small village in Galicia to build a peace shelter there. Their presence and their opposition to the wind turbine project will arouse the hatred of their neighbors, two brothers who are willing to do anything, especially the worst, to endure a nightmare.

A real thriller is oppressive, even suffocating, As Bestas Leading to a Spanish countryside, it is an ideal environment for isolating its characters and under the tension of the audience. Violence is on the rise in the film, and moments of disagreement accumulate. It’s impossible not to think of straw dogs with Dustin Hoffman, but also during the very awesome scene on John Burman’s Deliverance.

Thomas Desroches

Hirokazu Kore-Eda Lucky Stars (Contest)

In 2018, the Palme d’Or was won by the Japanese Hirokazu Kore-eda It is a family affair. The following year a Korean film parasite struck, in which we found actor Song Kang-ho. Today they are launching a skin competition together, in front of the second camera, which is again changing countries.

After France, where he explored the myth of Catherine Deneuve, here he is in South Korea. But his usual favorite topics are family and childhood, against the backdrop of social phenomena. There have been boxes in the country since 2010 in which women can safely leave their babies. This is how it starts. Lucky starsBefore the two men illegally take back the little one to find him a new home.

We sometimes think of little Miss Sunshine when this mixed and dysfunctional family (to which the baby’s mother is added) crosses the country by van. There are also a few police elements that this Captain (Donna Bae) follows to try to catch them. But above all, emotion prevails. Without doing much, as always, with the director, he can capture us with a simple gesture, while the story is a continuation of his previous films, both father and son in mind.

The tears caused can be blamed on the fatigue accumulated at the end of the festival. But you just have to admit that Les Bonnes étoiles is very beautiful. And outrageous. Will he join Core-Eda Weberella’s very closed double club?

Maximilian Pieretti