Cinema release of the week

This week, Thierry Fioril and Matteu Mastrasi present us new film productions: “May December” directed by Todd Haynes and “Captives” designed by Arnaud des Pallieres.

Exploring the underbelly of American culture, director Todd Haynes based his film on a true incident from the 90s. A married woman and mother who develops an unusual relationship with a 13-year-old teenager. This relationship would lead to her imprisonment, before seeing her reunited with her former love, once she became an adult, with whom she would have two children.

Currently, famous actress Natalie Portman is joining this interesting woman played by Julianne Moore and her unusual family to further immerse herself in her character for the filming of this unusual story. As the relationship between the two women becomes complicated due to gender confusion, jealousy, invasion of privacy, the actress sinks deeper into this unhealthy relationship. The man, considered the erased character of this trio, manages to understand his own flow through the observation of this stranger. “May December” is confusing and admirably done.

The film is distinguished by a notable female cast with Melanie Thierry, Marina Fois, Jossanne Balasco and Carol Bouquet. The first name plays the character of Fanny, who shows up at the Salpetriere Hospital in Paris in 1894 with the ambition to find her mother. In a hospital environment invaded by hordes of patients suffering from various ailments and conditions, under the watchful eye of relentless guards, these women sometimes suffer abuse and degradation.

The film focuses on a group of women building a mutual bond, with real horror behind closed doors. Through art, they manage to inject a dose of light into this dark reality. The film’s reflection centers on the concept of “madness” that was often associated with marginalizing and shutting down unruly or rebellious women, to the point where one might suspect that Fanny, though presented as a victim, might be a fabulator. .