The always brilliant Jacques Audiard (“A Prophet”) delves into the love life of “millennials”. Three girls and a boy from Paris are friends, lovers, and sometimes both at once in this non-judgmental, non-judgmental look at a generation that has traded romance for technology. Based on three graphic novels by Adrian Tomine, Audiard is set in the Olympiades neighbourhood, populated by skyscrapers and with a great cultural mix. “What’s really going on in our days of Tinder and ‘sleeping on the first date’?” asks the director. «Is there room for a love speech in these circumstances? Yes, of course, there is no doubt about that. But at what point does the love speech come into play? What are the words and what are the protocols? That’s one of the main storylines of ‘Paris, arrondissement 13’».
Tunisian filmmaker Kaouther Ben Hania’s second film, nominated for an Oscar for Best International Film in 2021, uses the art world to reflect on refugees. The protagonist of this scathing satire is a Syrian refugee who agrees to exhibit himself in museums with a work of art tattooed on his back in exchange for achieving the desired freedom in the West. The film was presented at the Venice Festival, where the lead actor, Yahya Mahayni, won the Best Actor award in the Orizzonti section. According to the director, “contemporary art and refugees are two opposite worlds.” “One represents ultimate luxury and the other is based on pure survival, but both revolve around freedom, understood from capitalism or from the absence of choice.”
French director Jérôme Bonnell enters from humour, on the run from the subjects, in the fear of sentimental rupture. An estranged man in his forties tries to reunite with his lover. She rejects him and he ends up in the bar in front of her house, where he writes her a romantic letter. Grégory Montel, Anaïs Demoustier and Grégory Gadebois star in this ironic sitcom. “When you write a letter full of passion, you have to ask yourself whether you love the recipient or you love yourself,” says Jérôme Bonnell.
The book ‘Orkestra Lurtarra’, written by Harkaitz Cano and winner of the Euskadi Award, dives into children’s entertainment. Imanol Zinkunegi and Joseba Ponce will direct, while the script was written by Cano himself together with Eneko Olasagasti. According to the producer, this is “Lotura Films’ funniest and craziest work yet, ideal for children and adults alike.” The main character fell platonicly in love with a great pianist as a child, and his dream is to meet her. To do this, on the advice of a shady figure who will later become a manager, he will form an orchestra. But Manu is not only a dreamer with capital letters, he is also misunderstood, an outsider who goes unpunished, starting with the idiosyncrasy of his instrument, which is none other than the broom. His peculiar orchestra consists of a double bassist who itches in the armpit when she is nervous, two twin brothers who play on the wind and have a supernatural sense of smell, a mustachioed countertenor and a percussionist who plays a triangle on which a goldfinch perches. They are also joined by a gypsy goat who does the song on the stairs.
Source: La Verdad
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