What to see this week? Here are our reviews of the latest films released in theaters or on a platform.
Boreal feast : Sylvan poem
“Beyond wanting to deal with the usefulness of death in nature, the filmmaker wanted to create a work of pure cinema, as he had done with 7 landscapesa contemplative documentary set in a forest crossed by a river,” writes our journalist Manon Dumais.
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Atikamekw suns : A film that opens your eyes
“What filmmaker Chloé Leriche first shows in her film shot in the Atikamekw language and subtitled in French is the devastating impact of the five deaths on a small community. Its precise staging imposes a particular rhythm and an almost cottony atmosphere. We feel the pain in the way we look at the village and its people, lost in this pain yet experienced under the magnificent light of the northern sun,” mentions our journalist Alexandre Vigneault.
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Girls State : Girl power
“ What if women ruled not the world, but the United States? Every year, for more than 80 years, hundreds of young teenage girls have played the game, in different initiation camps for politics and democracy. Two documentarians followed them to Missouri,” explains our journalist Silvia Galipeau.
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The First Omen : Before Damien
“Effectively juggling with gender codes, the director and her acolytes even allow themselves to fiercely criticize the instrumentalization of the female body by the Catholic Church. In fact, in The First Omengirls and women only serve to obey the orders of the men of the church, who foment the return of the antichrist, to bear the fruit of their diabolical machinations and to ensure that the sheep do not wander away the right path,” writes our journalist Manon Dumais.
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Wicked Little Letters : Really funny
“The book – and the series – Very British Problems deals with the “faculty” of certain British people to transform trivial situations into drama. This is exactly what happens in Wicked Little Letterswhose screenplay written by actor Jonny Sweet is inspired by a true story,” explains our journalist Pascal Leblanc.
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The Chimera : Demons and wonders
“ The Chimera, by Alice Rohrwacher, is a modern and fascinating tale about the quest of Arthur (Josh O’Connor), a damaged young archaeologist. With great formal freedom, the Italian director and screenwriter tells the funny odyssey of this group of grave robbers who sell these rare objects on the black market to survive,” mentions our journalist Luc Boulanger.
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