Fire Colors | A good old fashioned movie

In the 1930s, when the world was experiencing a serious financial crisis and witnessing the rise of autocratic regimes, a woman inherited her father’s fortune and now had to run the family bank. However, she will have to fight to rebuild her life following major dramas.

The writer Pierre Lemaitre signs the script himself for this film adaptation of the second volume of his novel trilogy children of disasterinitiated with goodbye up therebrought to the screen by Albert Dupontel in 2017. Such a case is rather rare (a writer rarely signs the scenario for an adaptation of his novel alone), but it is clear that this time it was a success.

Directed by Clovis Cornillac (Belle and Sebastian 3, That’s wonderful !)who signs here a fourth feature film as a filmmaker, colors of fire is a classic feature film, a little old-fashioned, of high quality, which takes us back to the time when French cinema also knew how to offer beautiful films with a more popular vocation, in the noblest sense of the term.

First offering a sequence shot – quite successful – to which a drama will put an end, Clovis Cornillac highlights a story set in a French bourgeois family of the interwar period. We find the Péricourts 10 years after having seen them in goodbye up there, with, this time, Léa Drucker in the role of Madeleine (played by Émilie Dequenne in the feature film by Albert Dupontel). Sole heir to the financial empire bequeathed to her by her father, to the great displeasure of Uncle Charles (Olivier Gourmet), the latter will be the subject of intrigues to the point that, ruined, she will have to rebuild her life with a disabled son.

colors of fire takes on the allure of cleverly orchestrated revenge as the world is changing, both financially and politically. Leah Drucker (Up to the hilt, Close) gate colors of fire at arm’s length and once again offers a remarkable composition. Opposite her, Benoît Poelvoorde finds one of his finest roles in this character of an industrialist who intends to innovate in the field of aeronautics, not without having previously intrigued in the business of the one in whose service he has already been . If the illusion is not always perfect for the singer character played by Fanny Ardant, the fact remains that, on the whole, colors of fire is a film as captivating as it is polished.

Indoors.

Drama

colors of fire

Clovis Cornillac

With Léa Drucker, Benoît Poelvoorde, Alice Isaaz

1:34

7/10