“The cinephiles attending the twenty-third edition of Rendez-Vous With French Cinema at the Film Society of Lincoln Center this year may relate a little too hard to Jean-Paul Civeyrac’s new film, A Paris Education, about a movie-obsessed young man named Etienne (Andranic Manet) who moves to Paris to attend film school,” writes Kristen Yoonsoo Kim for the Village Voice. “The entire twenty-four-film series (co-presented with UniFrance) is a Francophilic affair, but Civeyrac’s black-and-white coming-of-age drama feels especially French, following as it does a protagonist reminiscent of a Godard–Truffaut–Rohmer male lead . . . as he makes films and encounters a string of women, some whom influence his political outlook. There’s even a self-effacing moment when one of Etienne’s classmates complains about ‘whiny French films’—a label that could certainly apply to A Paris Education, though it’s admittedly immensely enjoyable for the entirety of its sprawling two-plus-hour runtime.”
In his overview for Artforum of this year’s edition, opening today and running through March 18, Tony Pipolo focuses on Léonor Serraille’s Montparnasse Bienvenüe (and here are reviews from Cannes), Léa Mysius’s Ava (Cannes), and Bruno Dumont’s Jeannette, The Childhood of Joan of Arc (2017; Cannes), “an eccentric, entrancing, altogether reverent treatment—score courtesy of Igorrr (aka Gautier Serre)—of the legendary jeun fille. As he did in The Life of Jesus (1997), Dumont fuses the sacred and the mundane to conjure a vision that brings the supernatural down to Earth even as it revivifies its tantalizing mysteries.”
At ScreenAnarchy, Dustin Chang previews Jeannette; Mathieu Amalric’s Barbara with Jeanne Balibar (Cannes); Emmanuel Finkel’s A Memoir of War with Mélanie Thierry, “a revelation as Marguerite, a learned, intellectual woman who slowly gets broken emotionally”; Raymond Depardon’s 12 Days, “a fascinating documentation of the unseen, underexposed mental problems the modern society faces”; Nobuhiro Suwa’s The Lion Sleeps Tonight with Jean-Pierre Léaud and Louis-Do de Lencquesaing; Xavier Legrand’s Custody (Critics Round Up); and Montparnasse Bienvenüe.
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