The week’s cinema releases with Thierry Fiorile and Matteu Maestracci: “Pas de vaguees” by Teddy Lussi-Modeste and “The Queen’s Game” by Karim Aïnouz.
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In No waves by Teddy Lussi-Modeste, Julien, François Civil, a motivated young teacher, determined not to let his students fall for the easy way, is also naive. He does not see the jealousy of the dunces coming, and especially that by making a remark related to his course, a student takes it for an attempt at seduction.
Denunciation to the college hierarchy, chain reactions from the class, death threats from the big brother and total abandonment of colleagues, the spiral is as rapid as it is terrifying. Teddy Lussi-modeste experienced this nightmare himself, in an establishment in Seine-Saint-Denis. After The teachers’ room by German director Ilker Catak, still in theaters, the crisis in the school system is imposing itself on cinema.
The Queen’s Game by Karim Aïnouz
It is the portrait of Catherine Parr, sixth and last wife of King Henry VIII, while the latter is in combat with his army, she is provisionally appointed regent, and attempts, through her Protestant beliefs, to influence the advisors of her husband.
But Henry VIII returns. He is increasingly ill and paranoid, and will therefore begin a race against time for his own survival, again with all the staging aspects of a true psychological thriller. If the director takes large liberties with History, he has remained faithful to Catherine Parr’s contribution to the reform of the English Church into the Anglican Church.