Like every Wednesday, we meet to recap the week’s movie releases. Here is our selection to guide your choices towards the dark rooms.
1. A Family by Christine Angot
This is a documentary autobiographical film by Christine Angot that questions speech within a family that has been struck by incest. The writer is invited for professional reasons to Strasbourg, where her father lived until his death in 1999. It is the city where she met him for the first time at thirteen years old, and where he began to abuse her. His wife and children still live there. Angot takes a camera, and knocks on the doors of the family, her family.
2. Off-Season by Stéphane Brizé
Mathieu lives in Paris; Alice lives in a small seaside town in western France. He is nearing fifty, a well-known actor. She is past forty, a piano teacher. They were in love about fifteen years ago. Then they separated. Since then, time has passed, each followed their path, and the wounds have gradually healed. When Mathieu comes to dissolve his melancholy in the whirlpools of a thalasso spa, he meets Alice by chance.
3. Immaculate by Michael Mohan
Cecilia, a young American woman of faith, is warmly welcomed into an illustrious isolated convent in the Italian countryside, where she is offered a new role. The welcome is warm, but Cecilia quickly realizes that her new home harbors a sinister secret and that terrible things happen there.
4. Bis Repetita by Émilie Noblet
Delphine, a disillusioned literature teacher, has a well-rehearsed deal with her students: they leave her alone, she gives them 19/20 marks. But the scheme backfires when her excellent (fictional) results propel her class to the world Latin championship in Naples. To crown the nightmare, the very diligent nephew of the Principal is chosen as a chaperone. To save the Latin option, and especially her comfortable situation, Delphine sees only one solution: cheating!
5. Averroes and Rosa Parks by Nicolas Philibert
Averroes and Rosa Parks: two units of the Esquirol hospital, which, like the Adamant, fall under the Psychiatric Pole Paris-Centre. From individual interviews to “caregivers-patients” meetings, the filmmaker is committed to showing a certain psychiatry, which still strives to welcome and rehabilitate the patients’ speech. Gradually, each of them opens the door to their world. In an increasingly depleted health system, how to reintegrate isolated beings into a shared world?
