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This week, I went to the cinema....three times : one international film and two French films
Another adaptation of an Agatha Christie novel by Kenneth Brannagh (Hallowe'en Party): a story of ghosts and child murder in a palazzo. No surprises, and a bit boring before the far-fetched ending. Not the best of Christie, nor the best of Brannagh, despite a good cast and the beautiful city of Venice. The English director has taken the easy way out in his last few films, adapting Christie from Shakespeare. So far from Belfast or Henry V here...
In France, making a film about teachers and education has become commonplace in recent years. Director Thomas Lilti, a former doctor, has spent all his career talking about medicine. But this new movie is also a good one, showing French teachers outside of school with their problems, divorces, nervous breakdowns, .… and the lack of education administration to help and support them. Lilti has cast his usual actors and actresses to show a bunch of teachers of all ages trying to help each other out. Sometimes a little angelic but a fine tribute to the profession. For a foreigner, it's also a good way to learn about the French education system. Lilti doesn't judge teachers or administrators but simply makes a movie about a slice of life during one year in a secondary education school. As usual, his characters are flawed and that makes them more sympathetic to us. Not his best movie nor the best for this subject but very nice to watch.
A French film about housing problems and squatters. The heroine, Inès, is recruited by the "anti-squat" company, which offers to house people in unoccupied office buildings to protect them from squatters and damage. These buildings are also subject to property speculation and become a kind of prison for the people recruited to occupy them, but also put them in a more precarious position than real tenants. The heroine's dilemma is that she too is at risk of being evicted from her own home. The French law of 2018, inspired by a Dutch law, creates this kind of exploitation by companies whose main aim is to ensure the profitability of the major groups that own office buildings. A cold and realistic social movie, very rude to see, so unreal does it seem to see a law enslaving human beings a little more for profit. The director made a good movie with «Corporate» in 2017, about human ressources in a big company, not far from what happened in Orange, for example. This new film may seem too heavy for the viewer, especially if he or she is not socially aware.
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