Focus #AstérixEtObélix 5/6

Astérix et Obélix : Au service de Sa Majesté (2012)

☆☆☆☆

Un esthétisme d’une rare laideur (…) jamais drôle, c’est pathétique et parfois gênant.

✍️ https://www.senscritique.com/film/asterix_obelix_au_service_de_sa_majeste/critique/16364118

#AstérixEtObélixAuServiceDeSaMajesté #GérardDepardieu #EdouardBaer #GuillaumeGallienne #ValérieLemercier #FabriceLuchini #CatherineDeneuve #Film #Cinema

With tinkling orchestral score and a couple of unobtrusive & brief CG effects, Claire Denis creates fairy tale for grownups with Vendredi Soir. Without much dialog, it tells a one-night-stand taking place amid of a transit strike in Paris. Laure is on her way to her friend's house for dinner. But with the strike, the traffic jam is severer than the one in Week End. Laure picks up a handsome stranger Jean with the urging of radio broadcaster's plea to carpool. The attraction between the two is palpable. Denis makes the most of the City of Lights through the car window. Agnes Godard's fluid camera captures pulsating street and intimacy of the confined space. Even after their hook up, there are sequences suggesting other possible scenarios. Vendredi Soir treads on the subject of one-night-stands very lightly with maturity, avoiding all the pitfalls of crass Hollywood romance or tortured realistic drama. #clairedenis #vendredisoir #vincentlindon #ValérieLemercier #paris #film

32 years ago:
Operation Corned Beef (FR)
Original title: L'Opération Corned Beef
The unsanctioned efforts of a covert unit to gather evidence about illegal arms shipments with the unwitting help of an embassy employee.
1991-02-06
https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/40223
#OperationCornedBeef #JeanMariePoiré #ChristianClavier #ValérieLemercier #JeanReno #ClassicFilm #ClassicMovies #Movies #Film