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Revolutionary Road, dir Sam Mendes (2009) 
This film depicts a curve, that of a couple confronted with the disillusionment of a life, the loss of their hopes, and their fantasies. Then, suddenly, in a flash, the crazy hope of living the life that they had imagined, in Paris, city of freedom, this life where everything is not an "hopeless emptiness", like the says Frank Wheeler played by the brilliant Leonardo Di caprio. Finally, comes the end of this short moment of dream, of fantasy returning to the surface, before finally plunge under the peaceful water of the lake. Back to this perfect life of a married couple, three children, in a beautiful suburb in the mid-1950s in the United States. The American dream. This film, of a rare intensity, depicts these different stages. These two ideals: the torpor of the norm against the quest for the absolute, the search for an intense life, extra ordinary, these are the words of April Wheeler, interpreted by the divine Kate Winslet. April and Frank embody yet this sublime couple, this couple of outsized beings promised to a great future. Yet the film confronts them with this sad truth: what if they had already reached the horizon of their future? If it was finished? If their life was no more than that: family life, torpor, common job for the father and life of a good mother at home? If that was their end? They live in the Revolutionary Road neighborhood, and yet nothing is revolutionary. They are confronting little by little to the painful descent into hell of the loss of their illusions. A world where the norm is this "hopeless emptiness" and where the madness is embodied by those who say aloud what they think, those who refuse to lower themselves to the normative constraints of society and who are electrocuted for it (the son of their owner). April is a free woman, a woman who vibrates inside, a woman who wants to escape. Her husband seems to have lost his ideals, the norm eventually seduce him, he is no longer the young man who spoke of living intensely and ardently. This magnificent final scene shows it well. April escapes into the forest, she is outside, far from any spatial constraint. He, Franck, is shut up in his house. Far from it and freedom. The window of the house creates overcrowding, enclosing it even more. The standard of the perfect family of the 50s stifles it. The norm of the American dream. He, too, ended up being a prisoner. And there is only she, April, who can not conform to it, never. The one who prefers to join death rather than live the life that we want to impose her. This film is a beautiful lesson on the difficulty of conforming to one's dreams, the difficulty of knowing oneself, the difficulty of believing in what escapes the norm, the difficulty of flying, of being free to escape from the decent framework of society. The difficulty of loving oneself with time, when ideals fly away, when love turns into hatred and happiness into a heavy, shaven vacuum. When they become like everyone else, empty and desperate.
- Lune
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Revolutionary Road, dir Sam Mendes (2009)
Ce film dĂ©peint une courbe, celle d'un couple confrontĂ© Ă  la dĂ©sillusion d'une vie, la perte de leurs espoirs, et de leurs fantasmes. Puis, soudainement, en un Ă©clair, l'espoir fou de vivre la vie qu'ils s'Ă©taient imaginĂ©s, Ă  Paris, ville de la libertĂ©, cette vie oĂč tout n'est pas “qu'un vide dĂ©sespĂ©rant”, comme le dit Frank Wheeler interprĂ©tĂ© par le brillant Leonardo Di caprio. Finalement, vient la fin de ce court instant de rĂȘve, de fantasme revenant Ă  la surface, avant de finalement replonger sous l'eau paisible du lac. Retour Ă  cette vie parfaite d'un couple mariĂ©, trois enfants, dans une belle banlieue au milieu des annĂ©es 50 aux Etats Unis. Le rĂȘve amĂ©ricain. Ce film, d'une rare intensitĂ©, dĂ©peint ces diffĂ©rentes Ă©tapes. Ces deux idĂ©aux: la torpeur de la norme contre la quĂȘte de l'absolu, la quĂȘte d'une vie intense, extra ordinaire, tels sont les mots de April Wheeler, interprĂ©tĂ©e par la divine Kate Winslet. April et Frank incarnent pourtant ce couple sublime, ce couple d'ĂȘtres hors normes promis Ă  un grand avenir. Pourtant, le film les confronte Ă  cette triste vĂ©ritĂ©: et s'ils avaient dĂ©jĂ  atteints l'horizon de leur avenir ? Si c'Ă©tait fini ? Si leur vie n'Ă©tait plus que cela: vie familiale, torpeur, boulot commun pour le pĂšre et vie de bonne mĂšre au foyer ? Si c'Ă©tait ça leur fin ? Ils vivent dans le quartier de la route rĂ©volutionnaire, et pourtant, rien ne l'est. Ils se confrontent peu Ă  peu Ă  la douloureuse descente aux enfers de la perte de leurs illusions. Un monde oĂč la norme est ce “vide dĂ©sespĂ©rant” et oĂč la folie est incarnĂ©e par ceux qui disent tout haut ceux qu'ils pensent, ceux qui refusent de s'abaisser aux contraintes normatives de la sociĂ©tĂ© et qui sont Ă©lectrocutĂ©s pour cela ( le fils de leur propriĂ©taire). April est pourtant une femme libre, une femme qui vibre Ă  l'intĂ©rieur, une femme qui dĂ©sire s'Ă©vader. Son mari, lui semble avoir perdu ses idĂ©aux, la norme finit par le sĂ©duire, il n'est plus ce jeune homme qui parlait de vivre intensĂ©ment et ardemment. Cette magnifique scĂšne finale le montre bien. April s'Ă©chappe dans la forĂȘt, elle est au-dehors, loin de toute contrainte spatiale. Lui, Franck, est enfermĂ© dans sa maison. Loin d'elle et de la libertĂ©. La fenĂȘtre de la maison crĂ©e un surcadrage, l'enfermant encore davantage. La norme de la famille parfaite des annĂ©es 50 l'Ă©touffe. La norme du rĂȘve amĂ©ricain. Lui aussi, a fini par en ĂȘtre prisonnier. Et il n'y a qu'elle, April, qui ne peut pas s'y conformer, jamais. Celle qui prĂ©fĂšre rejoindre la mort plutĂŽt que de vivre la vie que l'on veut lui imposer.
Ce film est une belle leçon sur la difficultĂ© de se conformer Ă  ses rĂȘves, la difficultĂ© de se connaĂźtre soi-mĂȘme, la difficultĂ© de croire en ce qui s'Ă©chappe de la norme, la difficultĂ© de s'envoler, d'ĂȘtre libre, de s'Ă©chapper du cadre biensĂ©ant de la sociĂ©tĂ©. La difficultĂ© de s'aimer avec le temps, lorsque les idĂ©aux s'envolent, lorsque l'amour se transforme en haine et le bonheur en vide pesant et rasant. Lorsqu'ils deviennent comme tout le monde, vides et dĂ©sespĂ©rĂ©s. 
- Lune. 
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Roma, dir Alfonso CuarĂłn (2018)
empty places.
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Roma, dir Alfonso CuarĂłn (2018)
“ I like being dead.”
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Roma, Alfonso Cuarón. (2018) 
Roma, un film sur une mĂ©moire, celle d'un rĂ©alisateur. Un rĂȘve proustien, le rĂȘve de redonner vie au passĂ©, au mexique des annĂ©es 70, Ă  la domestique de son enfance et Ă  son enfance elle-mĂȘme. Et cela, au coeur d'une photographie en noir et blanc sublime, et une esthĂ©tique hypnotique. La beautĂ© du film se loge dans les dĂ©tails, dans ces panoramiques, comme ces plans sĂ©quences qui embrassent le dĂ©cor et les corps emprisonnĂ©s dans ce huis clos saisissant. Les sens sont soudainement en Ă©veil, l'on ne peut que ressentir chaque plan comme s'il Ă©tait vivant. Dans ce film, peu Ă  peu, les hommes disparaissent pour laisser le devant de la scĂšne aux femmes, Ă  ces femmes marquantes dans la vie du rĂ©alisateur, comme cette domestique dont il fait l'Ă©loge avec Ă©motion. Si Cleo affirme aimer ĂȘtre morte, elle est plus que vivante lorsque la camĂ©ra de CuarĂČn s'attarde sur elle, sur son visage, sur son histoire. Dans ce film, les femmes sont des femmes, avec leurs dĂ©fauts et leurs imperfections. Elles ne sont pas des corps normĂ©s, des visages stĂ©rĂ©otypĂ©s. CuarĂČn entre dans leur intimitĂ© et les filme avec justesse, et authenticitĂ©. Un regard tournĂ© sur son passĂ©, sur les Ă©vĂ©nements traumatisants des annĂ©es 70, sur la vie agitĂ©e du Mexique. L'histoire du Mexique sous le prisme de la petite histoire, celle d'une domestique. L'antre domestique n'a jamais Ă©tĂ© aussi sublime, aussi esthĂ©tisĂ©, d'une beautĂ© inouĂŻe. Les femmes, Ă©galement, sont Ă  l'honneur. Si elles finissent toujours seules, elles restent ensemble, soudĂ©es, elles sont les liens qui unissent les membres de cette petite famille. Femme domestique, femme employĂ©e, finissent seules ensemble, sans les hommes, mais unies. L'une affronte l'adversitĂ© d'un divorce, la fuite d'un mari, et la nĂ©cessitĂ© de s'occuper seule de ses quatre enfants. L'autre affronte une grossesse non dĂ©sirĂ©e, un pĂšre envolĂ© et la mort d'un bĂ©bĂ©. Deux femmes plus fortes que les brutales vagues de la mer qui dĂ©ferlent Ă  la fin de ce chef d'oeuvre cinĂ©matographique. Un plaisir visuel et Ă©motionnel, d'une rare intensitĂ©.
- Lune. 
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Roma, Alfonso Cuarón (2018) 
Roma, a movie about a memory, that of a director. As the dream of Proust , the dream to revive the past, the Mexico of the 70s, the maid of his childhood and his childhood itself. And that, in the heart of a sublime black-and-white photography, and a hypnotic aesthetic. The beauty of the film lodges in the details, in these panoramics, like these shots that embrace the scene and the bodies imprisoned in this claustrophobic atmosphere. The senses are suddenly awake, we can only feel each plan as if it were alive. Gradually, the men disappear to give the center of the stage to women, to these remarkable women in the life of the director, like this servant whom Cuarón praises. If Cleo claims to be dead, she is more than alive when the camera is on her face, on her story. In this film, women are women, with their flaws and imperfections. They are not normalized bodies, stereotyped faces. Cuarón films their intimacy with accuracy, and authenticity. A look turned on his past, on the traumatic events of the 70s, on the restless life of Mexico. The history of Mexico under the prism of the little story, that of a servant. The domestic lair has never been so sublime, so aesthetic, of unheard-of beauty. Women, too, are honored. Domestic woman, employed woman, end up alone, without men, but united. The first one faces a divorce, the flight of a husband, and the necessity to take care of her four children. The other affronts an undesirable pregnancy, a father flying away and the death of a baby. Two women stronger than the brutal waves of the sea at the end of this cinematic masterpiece. A visual and emotional pleasure, of a rare intensity.
- Lune.
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Thunder road, Jim Cummings (2018) 
“ like a vision, she dances across the porch as the radio plays. “
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Thunder Road, Jim Cummings (2018) 
“ my all family was there, it was beautiful ! “
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Thunder Road, dir Jim Cummings (2018) 
“ Just because somebody chooses to leave, that doesn’t mean they didn’t wanna be here with you. 
It means they had hard time of things.
 A lot for some people. 
That’s not gonna be us.” 
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Thunder Road, Jim Cummings (2018) 
“ So Mary, climb in It’s a town full of losers, I’m pulling out of here to win ”
Between laughter and tears, Jim Cummings takes us to the heart of the descent into hell of a man, gradually losing everything meaningful in his life. A colorful character full of emotions, facing mourning and the loss of his last parent, loneliness, the difficulty of being a father, a fierce fight against divorce and the threat of exclusive custody of the mother. Everyone presents their own way of facing thunder on the road of life, and Jim Cummings confronts it tragically, as well as comically. In the darkest moments, Jim Cummings will make us laugh of the most terrible moments, while managing to break our heart. What a master stroke from this director, screenwriter and actor who plays and juggles with all palettes of emotions. We have never felt as alive, as human, as beautifully imperfect as by contemplating Thunder Road. Jim Cummings is so endearing in this role that it becomes impossible not to identify with him. The dance at the funeral of her mother, which can at first seem strange and offbeat, ends up becoming sublime, touching, hypnotizing, as the whole film.
- Lune
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Thunder road, dir Jim Cummings (2018)
“ So Mary, climb in It's a town full of losers, I'm pulling out of here to win ”
Entre rire et larmes, Jim Cummings nous emporte au coeur de la descente en enfer d’un homme, perdant peu Ă  peu tout ce qui lui est cher. Un personnage haut en couleurs et en Ă©motions, affrontant le deuil et la perte de son dernier parent, la solitude, la difficultĂ© d’ĂȘtre un pĂšre, une lutte acharnĂ©e pour le demeurer face au divorce et la menace d’une garde exclusive de la mĂšre. Chacun prĂ©sente sa propre façon d’affronter le tonnerre sur la route de la vie, et Jim Cummings l’affronte tragiquement, tout autant que comiquement. Dans les moments les plus sombres, Jim Cummings parviendra Ă  nous faire rire du plus terrible, tout en parvenant Ă  nous briser le coeur. Coup de maĂźtre de ce rĂ©alisateur, scĂ©nariste et acteur qui joue et jongle entre toutes les palettes d’émotions. On ne s’est jamais senti aussi vivant, aussi humain, aussi magnifiquement imparfait qu’en achevant Thunder road. Jim Cummings est si attachant dans ce rĂŽle qu’il en devient impossible de ne pas s’y identifier. La danse Ă  l’enterrement de sa mĂšre, qui peut tout d’abord sembler Ă©trange et dĂ©calĂ©e, finit par en devenir sublime, touchante, hypnotisante, Ă  l’image de l’ensemble du film. 
- Lune. 
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Her, dir Spike Jonze.
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" I just wanted you to know, that there will always be a piece of me in you. "
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Her, dir Spike Jonze.
" I'm just always confused. All I do is hurt and confuse everyone around me. "
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Her, dir Spike Jonze.
" we are only here briefly, and in this moment I want to allow myself joy."
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Her, dir Spike Jonze.
" Sometimes I think I've felt everything I'm ever gonna feel and from here on out I'm not going to feel anything new - just lesser versions of what I've already felt.”
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Her, dir Spike Jonze.
" Falling in love is kind of like a form of socially acceptable insanity."
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Her, Spike Jonze (2013)
her, a voice, a presence, a conscience. theodore falls in love. she is not human, she is only an artificial consciousness, nested in an indefinable place, beyond time or space. yet their feelings seem to transcend any physical or temporal law. the question of love is at the heart of this film, how to love, what is love, can we love beyond any carnal envelope? can one love the difference, even the most radical, in the other? because there seems to be no greater difference than a love between a man of flesh and a floating voice. a voice that, despite everything, tries to incarnate, desperately, in the image, in a body. a voice that tries to hide any difference with the beloved man. finally, their love will only be purer when this quest for being like the other will cease, when the affirmation of samantha's identity will grow, when she will claim to be a timeless being beyond matter. samantha ends up living by herself and no longer through the beloved man.
as for theodore, he also tries to live again through a voice, a fantasy love. alone, on the screen, in the middle of these immense buildings, in the heart of these empty rooms, in frames too big for him. little by little, he tries to fill a loneliness that gnaws him, he also tries to learn to love by difference. he tries to win back his wounded heart, an injured heart because of a past love that haunts his gaze, as well as the image of the film. he is so human, theodore, terrified at the idea of ​​having felt everything, of having lived everything, terrified at the idea that everything is nothing more than a bland image, similar of a film fade, sinking little by little in the dark and leading the image to total nothingness. yet he learns to love too, to live again, thanks to the love of a voice that is embodied in the image more than any body could be. if this voice ends up leaving him, the image has never been as fulfilled as at the end of the film. he will never be alone again.
- Lune. 
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