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Cinefranco 2024

 

CINEFRANCO 2024

 

CineFranco, a celebration of French Cinema, one of my favourite Film Festival returns to Toronto November the 1st with a wide range off French films from over the world, including the latest film QUAND VIENT L’AUTOMNE  from Francois Ozone currently playing in Paris.  Under the leadership and auspices of its directrice Marcelle Lean, this year’s films will be screened right in the heart of downtown Toronto any the Carton Cinemas.

Please check the Cinefranco website at cirefarnco.com for the entire program and screening times.

BonCinema!

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Film Review: The Other Laurens

THE OTHER LAURENS (Belgium/France 2023) ***
Directed by Carl Schmitz

 

THE OTHER LAURENS implies that there are two of them.  In fact, there are and they are twins.  When one apparently is done away with, the other investigates the brother’s death with skeletons coming unhidden from the closet.  The film plays like a neo-detective misery and it feels like the Raymond Chandler films.  The only difference is that this film is from Belgium, with locations in the United States (the Grand Canyon) and that there is more family relationship drama in this neo-black thriller.

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Film Review: MadS

MadS (France 2024) ***

Written and Directed by David Moreau

 

Nothing in the movie is what it seems.  What appears to be an animal scouring around his car turns out to be an older woman.  Her supposed injury turns out to be something else.

And nothing is what Romain (Milton Riche) has expected.  He never expected to drop his lit cigarette in the car and to shop by the roadside as a result  If not the woman would not have entered his vehicle.   The question also arises whether the audience is put in Romain’s shoes, as he is high as a kite, after experimenting with a new drug at his dealer’s.

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Film Review: Nice Girls

NICE GIRLS (France 2024) ***
Directed by Noémie Saglio

 

The synopsis from Allocine:  The intrepid Léo, self-proclaimed "best cop on the Riviera" " learns that her colleague and brother-in-law Ludo has been killed in Hamburg. While she wants to discover the truth, she is forced by her superior to let a German supercop do it. Out of the question to let a "loser in a suit" investigate, especially when she discovers that it is in fact the attractive and highly trained Mélanie. Forced to team up, these two women with characters as explosive as they are opposed do not suspect that Nice is facing an imminent threat and that they are more linked than they imagine.

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