“Pure Wonder”: Rated 4.5 out of 5, this is the best movie of 2024!

“Pure Wonder”: Rated 4.5 out of 5, this is the best movie of 2024!

Winner of the Grand Jury Prize at the 2023 Venice Film Festival, No Evil Exists in our cinemas this week. Directed by the Japanese Ryūsuke Hamaguchi, to whom we owe several gems such as Asako I & II and Drive My Car, this feature film that is somewhere between a thriller and an environmental tale was particularly well received by the French press at AlloCiné. With an average of 4.5 out of 5 (27 for media), it is currently the best movie of 2024.

What is it about?

Takumi and his daughter Hana live in the village of Mizuki, near Tokyo. Like the elders, they live a modest life in harmony with their surroundings. A project to build a “glamor camp” in the neighboring nature park, which would offer city dwellers a comfortable escape into nature, would threaten the ecological balance of the area and deeply affect the residents of Takumi and the countryside.

What does the press think?

According to L’Obs:

“Beauty and lightness co-exist with impending danger in brilliant pictures composed like paintings. Heaven and earth (or is it not hell?) sometimes merge. Here reigns a stunning simplicity. It’s called grace.” (Isabelle Dannel) 5/5

Based on it:

“Pure wonder.” (Françoise Delbecque) 5/5

According to Liberation:

In his charming eco-musical fable, where villagers see their daily lives upended by a ‘glamorous camping’ project, Japan’s Ryusuke Hamaguchi, author of Drive My Car, crosses genres with dizzying virtuosity. (Olivier Lamm) 5/5

According to Ouest France:

“Absolutely unclassifiable work.” (Thierry Chez) 5/5

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According to Defector:

“A film of modest production and romantic ambitions, yet sparkling with beauty, delicacy, a view that is at once sensitive and deeply human.” (Serge Kagansky) 5/5

According to Les Inrockuptibles:

“Between an exercise in style and a film of political intervention, Evil Does Not Exist is both a faithful staple and a new manifestation of the obsessions of one of modern cinema’s most gifted auteurs.” (Bruno De Ruiso) 4/5

According to South West:

“A tough and brilliant film, brooding and tense, somewhere between fairy tale and thriller. Hamaguchi takes an uncompromising and unflinching look at the damage of predation and the toxic power of words.” (Julien Rousset) 4/5

According to Télérama:

“Beyond its intriguing, admittedly misleading title, Evil Does Not Exist combines environmental elegy, political fable, and brooding Western in a staging of rare beauty.” (Marie Sauvion) 4/5

Source: Allocine

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