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white dog
Anaïs Barbeau-Lavalette offers a film whose evocative power also includes beautiful poetic impulses. Characterized by another impeccable composition by Denis Ménochet, this drama with social and political overtones also benefits from the performance of KC Collins, excellent in the role of this African-American trainer who tries to rehabilitate the aggressor dog. white dog is one of those works that mark the spirits. In this regard, Anaïs Barbeau-Lavalette has perfectly achieved the goal she had set herself. Her film is sure to spark some interesting discussions.
Marc-Andre Lussier
Boop
Ambitious at will, Boop remains Jordan Peele’s most cinematically impressive feature film. Whether it takes place at blue hour or in the dark, the photography of Hoyte van Hoytema – known for his work with Christopher Nolan – is impressive, as is the immense care given to the sound. Playing in the flower beds of Steven Spielberg and M. Night Shyamalan, Jordan Peele has just offered with Boop one of the most unique and entertaining experiences of the summer. To see more than once to grasp all the subtleties.
Martin Gignac, special collaboration
The high school student
Like so many of his colleagues – is this the effect of the pandemic? –, Christophe Honoré turned to his own memories of adolescence to write his most personal film. Better: he even assigned himself the role, brief, but oh so significant, of the father, to whom Lucas, the protagonist, is very close. With great delicacy, but also in a more frontal way, Christophe Honoré echoes the torments of late adolescence, in all its aspects. The high school student is a film that is both fragile and violent, one of the most accurate about this particular period of life, marked in this case by great inner confusion.
Marc-Andre Lussier
The Banshees of Inisherin
There is the tone – both funny and tragic – that the director of Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri maintains throughout the duration of his story. Then there is the main theme, very rarely addressed: the end of a friendship between two men, frankly expressed, and the consequences it entails. Visually splendid, The Banshees of Inisherin, whose title refers to a female creature from Irish folklore, also stands out, of course, thanks to Colin Farrell and Brendan Gleeson. The two actors obviously share a very real complicity. It feels.
Marc-Andre Lussier
December 23
No, December 23 does not revolutionize the genre. Doesn’t revolutionize anything, in fact. But that’s not the goal either. It is rather an unpretentious film, which wants to be faithful to a tradition, funny, comforting and unifying.
Silvia Galipeau
yellow jackets, season 2
The second season of Yellowjackets looks even more sinister, creepy and disturbing than the first, although perhaps less surprising. But despite a softer and more diluted plot, it’s stronger than us, we obviously want to know the meaning of the mystical symbols engraved in the trees and, above all, to see how the girls managed to survive for 19 months in the middle of the forest, without conveniences, without anything at all.
Hugo Dumas
Disobey: Chantale Daigle’s choice
The vintage series Disobey: Chantale Daigle’s choice, which takes place between November 1988 and December 1989, becomes, alas, a series well of its time, a time when struggles won for nearly 35 years are reversed. It’s very good, what the team behind this production has meticulously concocted, with remarkable attention to detail.
Hugo Dumas
The Chantale Daigle affair: the documentary
For nearly an hour, Noovo’s former station chief Noémi Mercier takes us back to this sensitive period of 1989, using archive images and enlightening interviews, with activists in particular, who recount detail the secret operation they carried out to enable Chantale to cross the border and obtain her abortion in Boston, United States.
Marc-Andre Lemieux
Succession, season 4
There are shows I have to watch for my job that make me want to open my brain with a nail bar. There are also great shows that make me want to seize the day and let life take its course. This is the case of Succession. It’s probably the most brilliant, cynical, funniest and cringest thing on American television right now.
Hugo Dumas
you will remember me
Éric Tessier has brought together an excellent cast, dominated by a great performance – yet another – by Rémy Girard. The actor manages to evoke the inner turmoil of a being well aware of his inevitable decline, who clings to a past that is sometimes still too real, whose gaze can nevertheless be emptied of all recent memory in an instant. Borrowing a classic approach, putting himself entirely at the service of the story and the characters, Éric Tessier has also been able to avoid all pathos and does not underline anything in broad strokes. His film only becomes more moving.
Marc-Andre Lussier