THE MORNING LIST
This week in theaters, several characters wander to the limits of the strange. Like the young escort of one hundred thousand billionIt took him to spend the Christmas holidays alone in the false empire of Monaco, a city open to the void. Or Limonov, revised and corrected by Kirill Serebrennikov in Limonov. the ballada Russian chameleon-like specimen that travels through the century like a rock star with a thousand identities. Finally, the green witch of Wickedthat goes back to the sources of wizard of oz in a slide of colors and pop energy.
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“One hundred thousand billion”: a Monegasque tale
In one hundred thousand billionFine-featured Tina (Zakaria Bouti, a revelation) shares a house with three friends near Monaco. The four escorts maintain their meetings with clients they met through applications. As the holidays approach, the girls return home and Tandie, who has no parents, finds herself alone smoking a joint. Without transition, we find Faite in a luxurious apartment in beige tones. A thirty-something woman of Serbian origin (Mina Gajovic) pays him to spend Christmas with her. She babysits and looks after a young teenager, Julia (Victoire Song), whose wealthy parents are absent: they are busy building an island off the coast of the Principality.
Instead of filming the Principality as a caricature, the filmmaker encapsulates Monaco under the filter of storytelling and 16-millimeter grain. Under the play of lights, the palm trees are electrified with blue reflections. Affine finds on her island, a freshwater cocoon, a semblance of family. one hundred thousand billion loneliness and her alter ego work, like Julia, in her midnight blue dress, bending over in front of the mirror in her room. Cl.F.
French film by Virgil Vernier. With Zakaria Bouti, Mina Gajovic, Victoire Song (1h17).
“The lives of infamous men”: monitor and punish
The lives of infamous menA writing project by Michel Foucault (1926-1984) in the 1970s, it is the result of research into the Bastille internment archives, which date back to the 18th century.my century. It is also the title of the film by Marianne Pistone and Gilles Deroo, a luminous stroke that gives body, in a succession of chapters, to one of these so-called “dark” beings. The directors were interested in the arrest warrant against Mathurin Milan, whom they cast as the character. From him we learn that it was “Admitted to the hospital of Charenton on August 31, 1707” : “His madness has always been to hide from his family. »
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