She likes characters who are overflowing, she forged a physical game in the theater, after her Caesar for Antoinette in the Cévennes, Laure Calamy slipped with force into the golden raincoat of Marie, a Strasbourg prostitute, 20 years of work on the counter.
A woman of the world by Cécile Ducrocq, looks without pathos on the profession of prostitute, here no miserability. Marie assumes what she does, without a pimp, the courageous mother of a turbulent teenager, she will fight to give him a future, even if it means being unsympathetic.
“I read Griselidis Real, everything she tells about what she experiences with her clients is fascinating. “
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To pay for an expensive cooking school for her son, she goes to work in a German brothel where the girls do not give each other gifts, the film shows that between the French model which penalizes the customer, the sex factories and low prostitution -cost, held by mafias, the fate of prostitutes, working taxpayers but without rights or almost, deserves to be improved, a sad evidence.
Laure Calamy, a feminist but opposed to the abolition of this profession, prepared her role in particular by reading the writings of Grisélidis Réal, Swiss prostitute, painter, poet and revolutionary activist.
Uberto Pasolini, who is unrelated to his illustrious namesake, was until then best known for having produced The full monty. A place like any other is his third film as a director. A tragic melee with a pronounced social fabric, it is an overwhelming and controlled father-son duo between John, a 35-year-old single father, a simple washerman, without a family, suffering from an incurable disease and little Michaël, 3 years old.
“Every time I cried, Uberto Pasolini would tell me, no! Keep it to yourself!”
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In Belfast, Northern Ireland, John is looking for an adoptive family who will welcome his boy after his death, the subject is certainly loaded, sometimes disturbing in the discovery of these candidates not always sympathetic to the adoption, but between the candor of the kid and the talent of James Norton, who deserves better than the series he has shot, we fall for this contained emotion.
13 years later Waltz with Bachir, the Israeli Ari Folman poses his design on the true and tragic story of Anne Frank, a young Dutch Jew who wrote in her diary the two years of confinement in a hideout with her family in Amsterdam, before her disappearance in the Nazi camps.
Where is Anne Frank, beautiful animated film, brings the teenager and her imaginary friend Kitty back to life, drawing a parallel between this painful past and the current plight of migrants. The production is flawless, the comparison of eras less relevant, but Ari Folman allows the younger generations to discover who Anne Frank was.