What movies are you going to see this week?
Films by masters or true stories, here are the releases of the week at a glance.
“Memory”
Tilda Swinton hears strange noises.
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The return to the top of a former winner of the Palme d’Or. Around the enigmatic character of Jessica (Tilda Swinton, magnificent), a farmer disturbed by a strange noise that she is the only one to hear, a masterful reflection on consciousness and understanding in a world invaded by hallucinations. The Thai author, all in poetry and unsaid, founds a universe that seems to be self-sufficient. It’s fascinating and stunningly beautiful, like every one of his previous films. PGA
Rating: ****
“Our hostages”
Morgane Ferru in “Our hostages”.
DISNEY
On July 1, 2011, Daniela Widmer and David Och, who completed their “silk route” in India like cool baba Marco Polos, saw their dream turn into a nightmare. To buy mangoes, the Bernese decide to go through a village in Balochistan, in the northeast of Pakistan, to get some…mangoes. Between two border posts, without an armed escort, the couple is taken hostage by the Taliban. They will remain captive for 259 days before managing to escape.
This escape judged as miraculous, will trigger a debate on the payment or not of a ransom which had been demanded at the time, on the “stupidity” of these irresponsible tourists. In a desire for rehabilitation, the director Michael Steiner, rather than sinking these unfortunate people, pleads: “The Swiss are travelers at heart”. Always a little rebellious to the establishment, the former punk prefers to draw the most sordid details from the book written by the victims, “Und morgen seid ihr tot” (“And tomorrow you are dead”). But do not lift the veil on the mysterious conditions of this release. KEY
Rating: *
“Introduction”
A black and white of infinite softness.
DR
The South Korean filmmaker makes so many films, and these are released so irregularly in Switzerland, that it is sometimes difficult to find your way around. “Introduction” had won the Silver Bear for best screenplay at the Berlinale 2021 and since then its author has already shot two films, one of which was out of competition at Cannes. He offers here a variation on themes that are obsessive for him, such as the intertwining of destinies or the world of cinema. It is a very minimalist work, sublimated by a black and white of an infinite softness, a film closer this time to Bergman than to Rohmer. Wonderfully ghostly. PGA
Rating: ***
“Costa Brava, Lebanon”
Even far from Beirut, Beirut comes back.
DR
A family has built a utopian refuge far from the pollution, social unrest and dangers of Beirut. One like the others will however catch up with them. This timeless chronicle, sometimes stringy but always accurate, shows an aspect of Lebanon such as the cinema has never represented it. Astonishment arises from everyday life, family conflicts resonate there with those at work in an entire country. PGA
Rating: **
“Little Solange”
Jade Springer (left), the exquisite Solange.
DR
Divorces rarely go well, and the cinema never sheds light on them by marrying the gaze of children. Yet this is what happens in “Little Solange”, an exquisite portrait of a thirteen-year-old teenager who is nothing but benevolence and love, and who above all, adores her parents. Where the screens too often represent teenagers as rebels, Axelle Roppert’s film takes the exact opposite. Discovering such an approach is really good. PGA
Rating: ***
“Superhero in spite of himself”
Philippe Lacheau in his own film.
DR
Comic vehicle for Philippe Lacheau, who directed the film himself. In the role of a loser who is offered a job as a French superhero and then becomes amnesiac, he connects comical situations with joyful vigour. Not great but fun. PGA
Rating: **
Pascal Gavillet has been a journalist for the cultural section since 1992. He mainly deals with cinema, but he also sometimes writes on other fields. Especially science. As such, he is also a mathematician.
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@PascalGavilletCecile Lecoultreof Belgian origin, graduated from the University of Brussels in art history and archaeology, has been writing in the cultural section since 1985. She is passionate about literature and cinema…among others!
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Cinema outings – What movies to watch this week?