CRITICAL – Between second degree, wink and offbeat, the author ofOSS 117 is in his element with his new zombie film, which opens the Cannes Film Festival. The actors are useless, the film execrable, the director at the end of his rope. It’s just a start. What’s the rhyme with this zombie story set in […]
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The nanar of the week: Waiting for Bojangles, by Régis Roinsard
CRITICAL – The film skates, runs on empty, useless, embarrassing, delighted with itself and hesitates between Modiano and Boris Vian. What a fantasy! How funny! Her name is Camille. He calls her Antoinette, pretends to be a descendant of Dracula, or an heir from Detroit, or even an Italian. She dances a kind of flamenco […]
Pointed out, the age difference of the actors of the Eiffel film creates a new controversy
The love story between the engineer and the beautiful Adrienne Bourgès inspired Martin Bourboulon’s film. But these, in reality, were only separated by ten years, when Romain Duris and Emma Mackey are twenty-two years apart. It did not take less to make feminist activists leap. On October 13, for its first day in theaters, the […]
Gustave Eiffel’s great-great-grandson angry: “The public deserved better, at least the truth”
The film Eiffel devoted to the French engineer and industrialist takes too many liberties according to one of his descendants. For him, the genius of his ancestor cannot be reduced to “a banal love affair ”. Angry, he asked the producers to add the mention “Fictionalized fiction” at the start of the feature film. He […]
Julie (in 12 chapters), The Last Duel, Freda… The films to see or avoid this week at the cinema
A heartbreaker, the fight for the honor of a woman or to keep hope in Haiti … Discover the cinema selection of Figaro. A must see Julie (in 12 chapters) , a dramatic comedy by Joachim Trier, 2:08 Julie twirls, flutters. Almost 30 years old. She studied medicine, became interested in psychology, became a photographer. […]
Romain Duris and Emma Mackey will build the Eiffel Tower at the cinema on May 19
After three postponements, Martin Bourboulon’s film hopes to count among the big releases, if theaters reopen in the spring. Announced as one of the most ambitious French films of 2020, Eiffel by Martin Bourboulon saw its production interrupted by the first wave of Covid-19. The last shots shot in June, after the spring confinement, an […]
Les Heures Sombres, Le Tigre Blanc, Thelma and Louise … Online movies to watch, or not, this week
During this health crisis and the closing of cinemas, the editorial staff of Figaro offers you every Wednesday a selection of new products available on streaming platforms or on VOD. Le Figaro offers you its selection of films released this week online, on VOD or on streaming platforms. A must see The Dark Hours, a […]