THE OPINION OF THE “WORLD” – MUST SEE
Actor Gilles Lellouche embodies a modest person with armor, a tender solid constitution and silent strength. He gained notoriety as a lost companion in The small handkerchiefs (2010) by Guillaume Canet, as an affectionate adoptive father in Student (2018) by Jeanne Herry, as an empathetic police officer in North BAC (2020) by Cédric Jiménez. Its presence reflects our good sides and our big mouth, guaranteeing the modesty that sometimes passes through us.
His second feature film as a director, The big bathroom (2018), revealed a more sophisticated part of his identity. This popular comedy – a group of depressed fifty-somethings who abandon their routine to train in synchronized swimming in a municipal pool – was distinguished by a sense of setting, elegant and graphic spaces, polka dots and melancholy, and situational burlesque.
Five years after this tasty neurotic-cheerful cocktaillove ugh He looks like a giant. Inspired by the novel by Irishman Neville Thompson (Jackie loves Johnser, okay? Poolbeg, 1997) and matured over seventeen years by its director, this almost three-hour fresco about true love (and all other possible forms of love, filial, friendly, conjugal, etc.) is a great machine that does everything. Constructed as a diptych over two decades, the film aims to immerse its protagonists and, by extension, the viewers in a complete psychophysiological experience, triggering in them all the emotions known since the psychologist Paul Ekman, a specialist on the subject. , investigated the question. dance numbers musicallong shadows of film noir, rainy days of a social chronicle, kisses of sentimental comedies, beautiful escapades of teen movie in support. On this, Gilles Lellouche promises ubiquity, adopting as many points of view as possible, like this scene in which the camera sees both sides of a door simultaneously.
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Despite the impression of attending a test bank whose objective would be to compare formal practices and performances, it is difficult not to melt in the face of this sensitive profusion that seems to emanate from an outdated, fighting and disorderly masculinity, currently in the process of deconstruction. Added to this are some thoughtful discoveries, like this gum chewed by your loved one, which beats like a little heart, on the wall of a teenager’s room.
A few words about the plot. 80s, a brick landscape in the north of France. Jackie (Mallory Wanecque), plaid pants and shiny loafers, and Clotaire (Malik Frikah), leather and gun, meet at the exit of a school bus. She studies, he goes out. Fall in love. But the boy is trapped in a life that is going wrong. Their story is that of an impossible love, as François Truffaut summarized so well with this epitaph “neither with nor without you”In The woman next door (1981).
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