(Cannes) A warm welcome for Simple as Sylvain
The nice ovation that followed the screening of Simple as Sylvain Thursday was no accident. Monia Chokri’s third feature film as a director, selected for Un Certain Regard, generally arouses very good reactions. Among the French critics recruited by The French movie to assign evaluation ratings to the films in the official selection, two of them, from Telerama and of The Obs, even give the only Quebec entry the highest rating (illustrated by a palm). On the side of the Anglo-Saxon specialized press, variety further points out that the distribution of Simple as Sylvain (whose international title is The Nature of Love) is “impeccable” and that the chemistry operates between Magalie Lépine-Blondeau and Pierre-Yves Cardinal, while highlighting the nature of a statement exposing a few truths, but “never to the detriment of comedy”. On his side, screen refers to a “fun, brilliant and sexy “. In short, it looks good!
A warning against the rise of the far right
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Jonathan Glazer was accompanied by Sandra Hüller and Christian Friedel during the press conference held on the sidelines of the presentation of The Zone of Interestin the running for the Palme d’Or.
The Zone of Interest, the most chilling film of the competition so far, tells the Holocaust from a unique perspective, that of the family of a Nazi commander who dreams of a good life in his house of Auschwitz during that the gas chambers are operating at full speed right next to it. Shocked by a visit he made himself to the death camp, filmmaker Jonathan Glazer conceives his new feature film as a warning, at a time when far-right ideas are regaining momentum a little all over Europe. “We tend to distance ourselves from these people by calling them monsters, but this film addresses this capacity for violence that we all have inside of us. This great tragedy is the work of human beings who have inflicted it on other human beings,” he told a press conference on Saturday. The Zone Interest will be distributed by A24 in North America. No release date has yet been set.
The film on Florence Arthaud is controversial
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Stéphane Caillard plays Florence Arthaud in Flo, film by Geraldine Danon.
As often happens with biographical dramas about people who died not long ago, Flo, a film relating the life of Florence Arthaud presented at Cannes in the official selection, is far from delighting those close to the sailor. This free adaptation of Yann Queffélec’s book was denounced by Marie and Hubert Arthaud, daughter and brother of Florence, the latter also considering the scenario “filthy, worthy of Here is “. According to what Nice morning, it was on board the catamaran with which Florence Arthaud, who died accidentally in 2015, had won the Route du rhum that the director, Géraldine Danon, responded to the controversy. “This film is a superb tribute to Florence Arthaud, she replied. I am not worried. And it’s a shame to criticize a film that you haven’t seen. »