Cinéma

The first foray into fiction of Italian documentary filmmaker Roberto Minervini, this war film depicts the down-times of an armed conflict with striking sensory quality and portrays the monotonous, seemingly insignificant daily life of these soldiers waiting for an enemy that won’t come.

Presented for Un Certain Regard, “Le Procès du chien”, the first film directed by Lætitia Dosch, tells the humorous story of an eccentric Swiss lawyer defending in court the case of a guide dog who, for biting a woman in the face, is threatened to be put down. By defending the status of dogs and its right to escape the death penalty, Lætitia Dosch opens up broader questions about our relationship with other living beings.

This first feature film tells the tale of 18-year-old Totone and his quest for wealth, which he hopes to achieve by winning prizes at agricultural competitions for his Comté cheese. This lively and galvanizing film contains every ingredient of the contemporary western - love, brawls, wild chases.

Un western contemporain enlevé et galvanisant.

Présenté à Un Certain Regard, “Le Procès du chien”, premier film réalisé par Lætitia Dosch, raconte avec beaucoup d’humour l’histoire d’une avocate suisse haute en couleur défendant au tribunal le cas d’un chien d’aveugle, qui pour avoir mordu une femme au visage, menace d’être piqué. En défendant le statut du chien et son droit à échapper à la peine de mort, Lætitia Dosch ouvre des questions plus générales sur notre rapport aux autres êtres vivants.

Avant même que le récit se déploie, la mort est au cœur du nouveau film de Thierry de Peretti. Le temps aura beau remonter, il nous conduira impitoyablement jusqu’à la disparation brutale de son héroïne, Antonia. La mort, elle semblait déjà flotter autour de la jeune reporter-photographe corse dont le film va nous dérouler l’existence.

The french filmmaker Thierry de Peretti (“Enquête sur un scandale d’état”) traces back twenty years of a woman’s and her friend group’s life through the violent troubles of the history or Corsica, in a minimalistic yet admirably detailed fresco.

The drag show at the Vertigo marks the opening of the Queer Palm, a new club is born, and some of the youth's popular idols have lost their privileges.

With “Diamant brut”, Agathe Riedinger gives a new importance to the motifs and concerns already depicted in her short film, “J’attends Jupiter”, in a promising first feature film that is yet tainted by a tendency for calvary. 

Having passed just after the filming of her film Ma vie ma gueule, in which Agnès Jaoui portrays the filmmaker's fictional double, Sophie Fillières had entrusted to her children Agathe and Adam Bonitzer the editing of her film.