We can imagine the doubly uncertain period at the Alizs: a pandemic that never ends and forces cinemas throughout France to juggle with health rules, last-minute deprogramming and potential evictions of contaminated personnel or contact cases; and then this sword of Damocls weighing on the cinema that the City wishes to pass into a public service delegation from next September, in the hands of a private operator not yet appointed. The rendezvous of French cinema, a brilliant institution since 1991, will it survive? All the more reason to savor this anniversary edition; five days of invigorating density.
Political scandal in opening, murder in closing
Impossible (and pointless) to run through the entire program here, let’s highlight a few moments not to be missed, such as the animated film Vanilla by Guillaume Lorin (made by Folimage but propelling into the lights and magic of Guadeloupe) or the adaptation of Pagnol The Time of Secrets by Christophe Barratier for a Ciné-ma diffrence screening.
Among the arrivals of filmmakers, let us point out Thierry de Peretti for State Scandal Investigation (which will open on the 26th at 8:30 p.m.), Eve Deboise for little lesson of love ; Matthieu Roz (with his comedian Yannick Choirat) for Azuro ; Sylvie Audcur for a mother ; Laurent Cantet for two previews of his ultra-modern drama Arthur Rambo (Photo) ; Mathieu Gerault for Sentinel south or even Samuel Theis for Small type.
On the documentary side, it is with curiosity that we will cast an eye on tomorrow my love that Basile Carr-Agostini devoted to the star sociologists of the bourgeoisie, the Pinon-Charlot, and which he will come to discuss. We can expect a singular echo effect with the Back Reims (Fragments) that Jean-Gabriel Priot composed from an incredible mass of archive images around the text of Didier Eribon, in the manner of the work of Frank Beauvais.
And then, among other projections, the closing will take place in the presence of the team of Murder party directed by Nicolas Pleskof (known for having co-signed the script for the short Make it Soul), a semi-parodic detective comedy (cuckoo, Knives Ort) cultivating an old fashioned B-series kitschy side. At the time of writing these lines, each session/meeting unfortunately remains subject to the vagaries of the current health situation. Fingers crossed!
Funny place for dating
At Alizs (Bron) from Wednesday 26 to Sunday 30 January
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