The Little Band, Happy Retirement 2: Which movies to watch this week?
For a “happy retirement” to Portugal or with “La petite bande” scratches? Going to the cinema on vacation can really hurt.
“The Band”, Wooden Cross, Iron Cross…
Loved the unloved and the birth of a formidable actor, at least for the time of a movie.
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Cat, Fouad, Antoine and Sami, 12-year-old children of a different age, without laptops or tablets, end their childhood in the Corsican maquis, between rivers and huts. The small band rallies against a vile polluting industrialist, but beneath the ecological message slung over their shoulders, each carries their intimate struggle.
These revelations, father in prison, mother beaten, etc., desacralize the romantic cliché of “life and death” pacts, allowing less noble truths to be told while suspending the social observation between utopia and reality. and Filmmaker Pierre Salvadori remains this champion of the somewhat lost cause, which he amplifies in tender burlesque strokes, where everyone ends up finding their account.
From a group of 4 to a club of 5… the strong charm of childhood comes to an end during a summer in Corsica.
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The other good idea of this chronicle lies entirely in the extraordinary face of the narrator chosen by Pierre Salvadori to narrate his crusade. This beloved, the unloved, who confides in the voiceover, is above all an extraordinary face of a curly-haired boy like a sheep, an involuntary humor of skin reminiscent of a Bourvil in shorts, superpowers that tremble a little. The pretty face of the job, it’s always necessary in this type of company where the children make their movies. But, burlesque and solar, Paul Belhoste captivates as a magician and transforms 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 scriptwriter.
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“Happy Retirement 2” signals an addiction to stew that’s getting alarming Thierry Lhermitte. For a few months, the bronzé has been appearing in French comedies, which in practice only throw well-worn gags. Remember those indecisive woes to play grandparents who want to use their age to have fun. The couple have invested in a second home, which turns out to be a scam. With a donkey in the garden and a mason in the bathroom. Let us continue.
But with “Happy Retirement 2, Welcome to Portugal” this pillar of the Splendid represents an additional threat. Will it be suitable for a continuation of all the turnips that have already been planted? Imagine another remake of Brutus vs César, a fake new episode of Mystery in Saint-Tropez, a series of Men on the verge of a breakdown, even a second installment of So we Dance?
The Parisian Bobos have invested in a house in Portugal – the one on the right. Oh what a mistake!
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Because there, in “Happy Retirement 2”, opposite Michèle Laroque with a large straw hat, who exports her neuroses of the aging Bobo to the sun, the thin argument of the first part liquefies – it is also one of the literal gags of the film. The guy opens the door and, frightened, makes a puddle. Curious… Normally, the Lhermitte doesn’t melt, even in mediocrity, as if protected by a nature class hovering above all catastrophes. After five such bad movies, it’s starting to get intense.
Rating: °
Mia & Me, from series to film
Mia & Me, from the series to the movie, fans are galloping on these slightly cute unicorns.
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click click An Australian, Indian, German and even Belgian co-production, Mia & Me, inspired by the 2011 series of the same name, shines with the tinsel of the plastic jewels adorning the junk dolls. But remains an object of curiosity.
On YouTube and other streaming channels, the fairy-turned-blonde heroine from the land of unicorns of Centopia, exported to more than 170 countries, has garnered 1.4 billion views. It gives you a unicorn horn in the center of your skull.
Authors Gerhard Hahn and Adam Gunn emphasize the quality of their influences, particularly the Viennese painter Gustav Klimt (1862-1918), whose palette they have enhanced with a few gaudy touches. Also, with the help of her friends, Mia faces Toxor, a bitter toad monster, and waits for the 3D prince who will change her life.
Rating: °
Animation (Aust./India/Bel./Germany – 82′)
Rating: White Point (At your own risk)
“Dida”, mother and son beyond the borders
“Dida”, a motherly love between Switzerland and Serbia, is revived in a very intimate documentary.
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The authors Nikola Ilić and Corina Schwingruber Ilić, who attracted attention at the Swiss Film Prize, leaf through their family album about their grandmother Dida. Like the stoles and newspapers that the old lady stacks “because she needs them,” the layers fall off exposing feelings.
Strong ties exist between the young man, who has now settled in Switzerland, and his baba, who has stayed behind in Serbia, weakened by a mental disability. The documentary looks through the keyhole to better protect modesty, deals with serious matters with humor and vice versa. Touch.
Note: **
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