Denis Villeneuve, already at the origin of "Blade Runner 2049", tackles an iconic saga.
The result was widely praised by fans of the saga.
But for the chronicler Thomas Baurez, the result is a bit smooth and the hero, Paul Atréides, played by Timothée Chalamet, complains a lot.
Other cinema releases this week, "Le Genou d'Ahed", by Israeli director Navad Lapid, tells the story of a filmmaker invited to give a conference in the heart of the Negev. The organizer asks him not to broach political questions. This restriction of his freedom of expression is causing a violent awareness of the situation in Israel. The staging, agitated, serves the purpose of the filmmaker, whose film received the Jury Prize at the last Cannes Film Festival.
Presented at the Deauville American Film Festival, "The State of Texas against Melissa" draws a world of inequalities where American justice tends to crush the little ones by pushing them even deeper into a misery from which they cannot escape. . Franco-American director Sabrina Van Tassel tells the story of Melissa, a mother of 14 children, one of whose daughters dies after falling down the stairs. Justice seizes the case, convinced that it pushed the girl. The legal trap closes on this Spanish-American, the first to be sentenced to death in Texas. The film traces the life of this ideal culprit, beaten, raped when she was a child, mistreated by her spouses, drugged ...
In "Les amours d'Anaïs", her first feature film, Charline Bourgeois-Taquet, stars Anaïs Demoustier, the eponymous heroine of the film, who runs through life and from love to love.
She searches for herself and flutters from lover to lover, until she meets Emilie (Valeria Bruni-Tedeschi), a writer who fascinates her and with whom she falls in love.
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