9 Could 2025.
EILEEN GRAY ET LA MAISON EN BORD DE MER ***1/2 (vo English and French)
When you’re excited about structure, this glorious docufiction is for you. And even in the event you’re not, it’s nonetheless an intriguing research of a proficient girl forward of her occasions.
With well-cast actors who play the roles of Grey, Le Corbusier and Jean Badovici, the movie retraces the life and work of the Irish designer/architect who constructed an progressive home on the Côte d’Azur in 1929. The pictures of its ingenious interiors and secluded seafront exterior – with its glossy, clear strains – are entrancing, particularly as they chronicle the passing of the years.
Conceived by Swiss administrators Beatrice Minger and Christoph Schaub, that is the passionate, nearly mysterious story of a girl who co-constructed an avant-garde refuge for herself within the south of France, after which misplaced it to the famend Le Corbusier who determined to cowl her serene white partitions together with his personal modernistic murals.
Fantastically narrated each in English and French, it creates a hypnotic ambiance of the thrilling period of modernism with elegant music and cinematography, successful awards in varied movie festivals.
It’s particularly touching when on the finish of the movie it reveals the actual Eileen Grey, now in her mid-90s, nonetheless speaking about new initiatives in furnishings design, which was her specialty and for which she grew to become well-known. This multi-layered work is a well timed tribute to an unjustly disregarded expertise. (Exhibiting on the Bio, Carouge)
LES MUSICIENS ***1/2 (vo French)
This French movie by Grégory Magne continues the concept of creation, within the realm of music.
A daughter needs to honour her just lately deceased father with a live performance that includes his assortment of Stradivarius violins and a newly acquired Stradivarius cello. Clearly she and her brother are on the head of a rich conglomerate. However that isn’t the purpose. The purpose of this fascinating movie is the problem of bringing collectively high musicians who’ve by no means earlier than labored collectively. She needs to create a harmonious quartet in a triple tribute to the dear devices, to a brand new composition by a reclusive composer, and to her father’s reminiscence. A frightening undertaking because the 4 musicians will not be getting alongside, and they’re underneath a time restrict.
Director Magne succeeds by treating the story with a lot respect for all its components, together with the varied protagonists, every with their very own characters and hangups, and the selection of his major actors – the fragile Valérie Donzelli because the daughter and the charismatic Frédéric Pierrot because the composer – the 2 parentheses of the entire scheme.
There’s rigidity, there are feelings, and there’s noble music and environment, however above all there’s the synergy of human relations culminating within the creation of a elegant second. Splendid!
UN MONDE MERVEILLEUX **1/2 (vo French)
This can be a unusual, bittersweet movie. There’s a girl (the splendidly expressive Blanche Gardin), a depressed, jobless chain-smoker who will not be the most effective of moms, as she teaches her little daughter to lie and steal. However then the movie can be concerning the close to future the place robots are every day companions to us people.
It’s this tender, humorous facet of it that makes this movie by Giulio Callegari a particular one – the up-and-down reference to the robotic that she and her daughter have stolen from an outdated folks’s house to promote its spare components. That doesn’t work, so she’s caught with it, for higher or for worse. And the robotic seems to be a tremendous instructor, particularly when she loses her daughter to the social providers. This social satire is definitely fairly a wacky, entertaining premise for first-time function director, Callegari.
(Exhibiting on the Bio, Carouge)
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By Neptune
Neptune Ravar Ingwersen evaluations movie extensively for publications in Switzerland. She views 4 to eight movies per week and her intention is to type the wheat from the chaff for readers.
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