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A selection of ten films that have shaped the cinematographic year 2021

1 janvier 2022 Malik Berkati 5 min read 107 Mothers, Bad Luck Banging or Loony Porn, Brotherhood, Carlo Francisco Manatad, Drive My Car, Florence Miailhe, Francesco Montagner, Fred Baillif, Jane Campion, La Mif, La traversée, Looking For Venera, Nebesa, Norika Sefa, Peter Kerekes, Radu Jude, Ryūsuke Hamaguchi, Srdjan Dragojević, The Fam, The Power of the Dog, Wheel of Fortune and Fantasy, Whether the Weather Is Fine

For the last two years, the world has been experiencing extraordinary turbulence that has affected all sectors of society, including culture and cinema, which had already been undergoing various transformations and difficulties for several years. After these two years under pandemic, it appears that the creation is an essential good to the humanity, that the fact of living it collectively also and, as regards the cinema, that a film of cinema and made and thus must be looked at on a screen in a cinema room! Here is a selection of 10 films seen in theaters this year. The links point to reviews and interviews written in French by j:mag.
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Avec The Power of the Dog, Jane Campion plonge dans le western avec brio et lyrisme

29 novembre 2021 Firouz Pillet 3 min read Ari Wegner, Benedict Cumberbatch, Jane Campion, Jesse Plemons, Jonny Greenwood, Kirsten Dunst, Kodi Smit-McPhee, Mostra de Venise 2021, The Power of the Dog, Thomas Savage, western

Basé sur le roman éponyme de 1967 de Thomas Savage, The Power of the Dog, projeté à la dernière Mostra de Venise, suit la vie quotidienne des frères Phil (Benedict Cumberbatch) et George (Jesse Plemons) Burbank, propriétaires d’un ranch. Originaires du Montana, Phil et George Burbank ont beau être frères, ils mènent une vie diamétralement opposée. Autant Phil est raffiné, brillant et cruel, autant George est flegmatique, méticuleux et bienveillant. À eux deux, ils sont à la tête du plus gros ranch de la vallée du Montana, une région, loin de la modernité galopante du XXème siècle, où les hommes, rustres et machos, assument toujours leur virilité et où l’on vénère la figure de Bronco Henry, le plus grand cow-boy que Phil ait jamais rencontré. (…)