“The Little Band”, “Happy Retirement 2”: what movies are you going to see this week?
Are you going to Portugal for a “Happy Retirement” or taking scratches with “La petite gang”? During the holidays, the cinema can hurt a lot.
“The little ribbon”, wooden cross, iron cross …
Loved the unloved, and the birth of a formidable actor, at least for a movie.
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Cat, Fouad, Antoine and Sami, 12-year-olds of another age, without laptops or tablets, end their childhood in the Corsican maquis, between rivers and huts. The small band gathers against a disgusting polluting industrialist, but beneath the ecological message carried over the shoulder, each carries his intimate struggle.
These revelations, father in prison, mother beaten, etc., desecrate the romantic cliché of “life and death” covenants, allowing less noble truths to be told while suspending the social observation between utopia and reality. And filmmaker Pierre Salvadori remains this champion of somewhat lost cases, which he magnifies in delicate burlesque traits where everyone ends up finding their account.
From a gang of four to a club of 5 … the strong charm of childhood that is coming to an end during a summer in Corsica.
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The other good idea with this chronicle is entirely in the extraordinary face of the narrator, whom Pierre Salvadori has chosen to tell his crusade. This Beloved the unloved who confides in voiceover, it is first and foremost an extraordinary face of a curly kid like a sheep, an involuntary humor of the skin that evokes a Bourvil in shorts, superpowers that tremble a little. The beautiful face of employment, it is always necessary in this kind of operation where the children make their cinema. But, burlesque and solar, captivates Paul Belhoste like a magician and turns the band into a club of 5.
Note: ***
“Happy Retirement 2”, shipwreck in Portugal
Michèle Laroque and Thierry Lhermitte on a professional holiday in Spain with a donkey, but without a screenwriter.
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“Happy Retirement 2” signals an addiction to the stew that is becoming alarming in Thierry Lhermitte. For a few months, Bronzé has appeared in French comedies, which in practice only throw out worn-out gags. Remember these disorders unresolved to play grandparents who want to take advantage of their old age to have fun. The couple has invested in another home, which turns out to be a scam on the way. With a donkey in the garden and a bricklayer in the bathroom. Let’s move on.
But with “Happy Retirement 2, Welcome to Portugal”, this cornerstone of Splendid poses an additional threat. Will it be suitable for a successor to all the beets that have already been planted? Imagine yet another remake of “Brutus vs. César”, a fake new episode of “Mystery in Saint-Tropez”, a series taken from “Men on the Brink of a Nervous Breakdown”, even a second installment of “So we Dance “?
The Parisian boboes have invested in a house in Portugal – the opposite. Oh, what a mistake!
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For there, in “Happy Retirement 2”, opposite Michèle Laroque in a big straw hat exporting her neuroses of aging bobo to the sun, the thin argument in the first part becomes fluid – it’s also one of the film’s literal gags. The guy opens the door and scares a puddle. Curious … Normally, even in mediocrity, the Lhermitten does not melt, as if protected by a natural class hovering over all disasters. After five movies so bad, it’s starting to get heavy.
Rating: °
“Mia & Me”, from the series to the movie
“Mia & Me”, from the series to the movie, gallops fans on these slightly adorable unicorns.
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Click-click An Australian, Indian, German and even Belgian co-production, “Mia & Me”, inspired by the homogenous series created in 2011, shines with the glitter of the plastic jewels that adorn the junk dolls. But remains an object of curiosity.
On YouTube and other streaming channels, the blonde heroine, who turns into an elf from the land of Centopia’s unicorns, exported to more than 170 countries, has recorded 1.4 billion views. It gives you a unicorn horn in the center of your skull.
The authors Gerhard Hahn and Adam Gunn insist on the quality of their influences, especially the Viennese painter Gustav Klimt (1862-1918), whose palette they have boosted with a few flashy features. After all, with the help of her friends, Mia confronts Toxor, a bitter toad monster, and waits for the 3D prince who wants to change her life.
Rating: °
Animation (Aust./India/Bel./Germany – 82 ‘)
Rating: White dot (At your own risk)
“Dida”, mother and son beyond borders
“Dida”, a mother’s love between Switzerland and Serbia, which comes alive again in a very intimate documentary.
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Writers noted at the Swiss Film Prize, Nikola Ilić and Corina Schwingruber Ilić flip through their family albums around their grandmother Dida. Like the chairs and newspapers, the old lady piles up “because she needs them”, the layers fall off and expose the emotions.
Between the young man who now settled in Switzerland and his baba, who remained in Serbia, weakened by a mental disability, there are still strong connections. The documentary looks through the keyhole to better protect modesty, humorously addresses serious matters and vice versa. Touching.
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