Our film reviews of the week

In order to properly establish the alliances and misalliances between the colorful and formidable characters, Tony Tost skillfully divides his story into chapters while having fun shaking chronology somewhat. Americana Culminates when all these beautiful people meet at the starr domain, dysfunctional family where men cruelly dominate women.

Baya Kasmi and Michel Leclerc cheerfully mock wokists, feminists, masculinists and defenders of patriarchy through a plethora of unidimensional characters, embodied with APLOMB by a distribution in tune. In short, whether they are left, right or center, all spend a bad quarter of an hour there, the writers having fun pointing the contradictions of each current of thought. Under the cover of lightness, the authors tackle serious themes, such as conjugal violence, feminicides and police indifference in the face of the female condition.

Modest crossing between documentary and fiction, Bicycle! Seduct the public at various festivals, including that of Angoulême and Alpe d’Huez. It is true that mourning is a universal subject that touches straight at the heart. What is more when it comes to the loss of a child. However, if the pain of the proven father is very tangible on the screen, as well as the empathy and the sorrow of his great friend, the result, sympathetic and borders, more often arouses annoyance than emotion.

Both intimate family drama on mourning and painting of naturalistic medium, where most of the characters are embodied with ease by non-professional in their own role, East of Wall First seduced by its aesthetics. In the light of the photo director Austin Shelton, the golden plains of the southern Dakota and the steep rocks of the badlands compete in beauty with the blue of the sky.