What to see this week? Here are our reviews of the latest films released in theaters or on a platform.
Love Lies Bleeding : pulpy fiction
“ Love Lies Bleeding (Of love and blood in French version) by Rose Glass (Saint Maud) is a joyous cocktail of sex, blood, violence and revenge, in an irresistible retrokitsch package,” writes our columnist Marc Cassivi.
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At the end of nothing : The sweet madness of Marcel Sabourin
““Growing old means no longer understanding the world around you,” says Marcel Sabourin in At the end of nothing altogether. However, during the 90 minutes of the documentary dedicated to him by his eldest son, we feel the actor is still very young at heart and in spirit. The eldest still marvels at the beauty of the world around him. Failing to always understand it…” mentions our journalist Luc Boulanger.
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You’ll never know : Paul is all alone
“ You’ll never know is both a painful and hopeful film where Robin Aubert does not hesitate to test the spectator’s patience. And this, from the long opening scene, where the sunlight gently enters Paul’s room, as if the filmmaker had wanted to make us feel the weight of time. As the man wakes up, all we hear is the coughing of a neighbor in the room, the ventilation system and the rumble of the morgue truck. The CHSLD as if you were there… or almost,” explains journalist Manon Dumais.
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They Shot the Piano Player : It’s bossa nova’s fault
“By choosing animation rather than live-action documentary, Mariscal and Trueba, who conducted nearly 150 interviews for the film, ensured that they could evoke with poetry, sensuality and fantasy the wild nights of jazz clubs where Tenório played. However, in certain passages, the images move according to a rhythm that lacks fluidity and the colors are garish,” writes our journalist Manon Dumais.
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One Life : Children first
“Could not be more conventional in style, the film broadly underlines the guilt of the man haunted by the memory of the children he was unable to save from the hands of the Nazis and the idealism of the young broker ready to shake up the sky and earth to achieve the impossible. In short, for the nuance, we will come back,” says our journalist Manon Dumais.
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French Girl: Little Quebec
“To succeed in a romantic comedy, you have to attach yourself to the lovers. In French girl (At the in-laws, in French version), Gordon (Zach Braff, lost) is a guy who constantly gets his feet wet and has little charisma. For two hours, we wonder one thing: what could Sophie (Evelyne Brochu, correct) see in him that her family and the author of these lines do not see at all? » writes our journalist Luc Boulanger.
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