The dark rooms assert themselves as blessed shelters in these scorching times. Here is our selection of the best feature films currently on the bill.
While outside, the temperatures fly away and the air is asphyxiating, nothing like a time out of time and heat in a cinema. This Wednesday, July 2 is the last day of the Cinema Festival, a promotional operation where the place is sold at the single, and very attractive price, of 5 euros. The editorial staff of BFMTV.com has concocted its list of the best films, all kinds combined, to see at the moment in the cinema.
• “Enzo”
This is the last feature film by Laurent Cantet, disappeared just before filming, on April 25, 2024 at the age of 63, from cancer. It was his comrade Robin Campillo, also co-author of the script with Laurent Cantet and Gilles Marchand, who resumed his realization and completed the case. The film tells the story of a good family teenager who chooses to become a mason, to the chagrin of his father.
It talks about class report, downgrading, social contempt, disorders and adolescence evidence on the heights of the Ciotat. In addition to the singular story of its production, the film touches by its naturalism and its square characters, sometimes a little lost, but never far from their ideal – Éloy Pohu, formidable revelation, Élodie Bouchez and Pierfrancesco Favino, perfect in poor and (too?) Protectors. It is the author’s film, delicate and sunny, of this summer.
• “13 days, 13 nights” by Martin Bourboulon
The director of the two components of Three musketeers returns with a new film under pressure, adapted from 13 days, 13 nights in the hell of Kabul by Mohamed Bida. It tells the true story of the exfiltration of several hundred people from the French Embassy in Afghanistan, when taking the capital by the Taliban in August 2021. carried by two favorite actors of tricolor cinema, Lyna Khoudri and Roschdy Zem, this thriller succeeds in keeping us in suspense for almost two hours, with effective scenes, and beautifully spectacular, suspense negotiations. The film produced by the star duo of Three musketeers one you Comte de Monte-CristoDimitri Rassam and Ardavan Safaee, for a trifle of 27.5 million euros – one of the biggest French budgets of the year -, therefore masters his recipe.
• “Mission impossible – The Final Reckoning”
Except for contraindication, this is Tom Cruise’s last dance in the role of Ethan Hunt. It is not the most majestic or the finest, but it is worth the detour. To say goodbye to him in good and due form first, and by taste of impossible, always heroic waterfalls. For the eighth and last part of the saga, the director Christopher McQuarrie put the package, with violins in Gogo, grandiose scenes in a submarine and on a biplane, pro-grise elegia, sometimes intrigue stretched and convoluted explanations which connect certain old narrative elements to the current frame. The Hollywood star could nevertheless have taken a bit less seriously. The fact remains that mayonnaise takes: Tom saves the world and we are happy. In subtext, a reflection on the passing time (yes yes).
• “L’Aventura”
Sophie Letourneur is separate. After Travel to Italy In 2023, the filmmaker continued her naturalist exploration of the couple, adding a new little grain of salt, which we know less: children. In front of the camera, there is Maman (Sophie Letourneur), Papa (Philippe Katerine), and the offspring Bérénice Vernet and Esteban Melero. The little family heads for Sardinia for the summer.
But the director does not seek pathos or the pretty story feel goodshe films the trivial, the wonderfully banal, the thing that we have a priori want to see in the cinema. It shouts, it chouine, it poops. Sophie Letourneur is raw, always funny, not idealistic for two money, but so just. No wonder the Italian walk reminds us of some – more or less – old memories.
• “F1”
A headliner, Brad Pitt, and a universe almost never portrayed. The American star plays Sonny Hayes, a former F1 champion marked by a serious accident, who made his comeback thirty years later in a bankrupt stable.
By his side, a young rival with sharp teeth (Damson Idris), but also, more in the background, the cream of car pilots of the time, ranging from Lewis Hamilton to Fernando Alonso, via the Frenchy Charles Leclerc. In a ducture at 300 million dollars, deliberately immersive and breathless, the director of Top Gun: Maverick, Joseph Kosinski, films here the tarmac track, speed, danger, ambition. Icing on the cake, Hans Zimmer sign the music of the film.
• “Avignon”
A little romantic does not hurt. In the streets of Avignon, in the middle of the theater festival, Stéphane (Baptiste Lecaplain, always sweet and solar) meets Fanny (Elisa Erka). A world opposes them: the first plays a piece from Boulevard not final, the second, an installed actress, defends the classic and the great texts in Alexandrin.
On the program, misunderstandings, a lie (Stéphane claims to interpret Rodrigue in The cid), play comrades (Alison Wheeler or Johann Dionnet, both director and supporting role), prejudices on the world of theater, jokes (unequal) and a love story which will not leave any little heart of marble. If the end is perhaps a little too conventional, the film, produced by the French subsidiary of the giant Warner Bros., is perfectly fresh and tender.
