♦ Babylon***
by Damien Chazelle
American film, 3:09
The director of La La Land pays a nostalgic homage to the cinema through this thrilling fresco on the golden age of Hollywood in the 1920s. Brad Pitt and Margot Robbie take us on a feverish sarabande lasting more than three hours, which recounts the passage of the silent to talkies and (already) signs the end of an era.
» READ THE REVIEW: “Babylon”, or the first death of Hollywood
♦ Our suns***
by Carla Simon
Spanish film, 2 hours
An intimate and sensitive chronicle of the disappearance of a world, that of the peasantry, the film by Spaniard Carla Simón won the Golden Bear in Berlin last year.
» READ THE REVIEW: “Our Suns”, Last Harvest
♦ Youssef Salem is successful**
by Baya Kasmi
French film, 1 h 37
“Youssef Salem is successful”, The novel of discord
This tender comedy follows the trajectory of a writer panicked by the success of his book in which he reveals the little failings of his family.
» READ THE REVIEW: “Youssef Salem is successful”, The novel of discord
♦ My old man **
by Elie Semoun
French film, 1 h 17
In this documentary, which is released in theaters after being broadcast on LCP in 2020, humorist Élie Semoun films the last moments spent with his father, who has Alzheimer’s disease.
» READ THE REVIEW: “My old man”, filial love put to the test by Alzheimer’s
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