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“Les Amandiers” or “Endlessly Younger” is the most recent autobiographical movie from French-Italian actress and director Valeria Bruni-Tedeschi. It follows a gaggle of formidable drama college students within the Nineteen Eighties, depicting a time of informal drug use and the rising spectre of AIDS. However its launch has been overshadowed by rape and home violence allegations in opposition to one in every of its lead actors, Sofiane Bennacer, which has led some cinemas to cancel showings of the movie.
FRANCE 24 movie critic Lisa Nesselson additionally tells us concerning the newest whacky work from director Quentin Dupieux. “Smoking Causes Coughing” introduces us to a gaggle of cut price basement superheroes known as the “Tobacco Pressure” who’re despatched on a cohesion retreat by their boss – a drooling, taxidermied rat voiced by Alain Chabat.
We additionally revisit Ettore Scola’s 1983 masterpiece “Le Bal”, which has simply been remastered and re-released. Set in a Parisian dance corridor over the course of a number of a long time, it captures half a century of historical past and the timeless human quest in opposition to loneliness.
And 60 years after the demise of Marilyn Monroe, a retrospective of her movies on the Cinémathèque Française reminds viewers of the expertise behind the icon.
